Overview
- UCE-Asturias is finalizing a complaint to the regional consumer authority accusing Aucalsa of abusive practices for billing the full AP-66 toll since the November 2024 landslide disrupted normal service.
- The organization reports more than 3,000 users have submitted documentation to support the case.
- The filing will request the maximum €100,000 fine for continued serious breaches and ask that penalties be increased under provisions allowing multipliers on illicit gains.
- Asturias’s consumer officials say they are reviewing the case with their counterparts in Castilla y León due to jurisdictional issues at the toll booths and they cite the AP-9 Supreme Court precedent.
- The challenge comes as the 2026 toll rose 3.64% to €16.20 for cars and as Asturias presses to undo the 2050 concession extension that the European Commission found unlawful.