Overview

• Provincial assessor Luis Walcher presented a draft law reintroducing an annual charge of about €100 per resident dog and creating a €1.50-per-night fee for visiting dogs.
• Dogs already registered in the earlier DNA program would be exempt from the annual charge for two years as a temporary relief measure.
• Proceeds are earmarked for street cleaning and the creation of dedicated dog areas, while fines of €200–€600 remain for failing to remove droppings.
• The province is abandoning the hard-to-apply mandatory DNA tracing scheme, which enrolled only about 12,000 of roughly 30,000 dogs.
• ENPA condemned the plan as punitive for families and tourists, and the measure must still clear the provincial legislative process before a planned 2026 rollout.