State Vehicle Fleet

Parque Móvil del Estado
Headquarters in Madrid
Agency overview
Formed	September 28, 1935; 90 years ago (1935-09-28)
Preceding agency	Vehicle Fleet of the Directorate-General for Security
Jurisdiction	Spain
Headquarters	Madrid
Employees	913(as of 31 December 2024)[1]
Annual budget	€ 50.6 million, 2025[2]
Agency executive	Miguel Ángel Cepeda Caro, Director
Parent agency	Ministry of Finance
Website	PME website

TheState Vehicle Fleet (Spanish:Parque Móvil del Estado,PME) is anautonomous agency of theSpanishDepartment of Finance responsible for providing transportation to national-level authorities, both for theGeneral State Administration and for the constitutional bodies (Royal Household,Parliament,Supreme Court,Constitutional Court, etc.). This organization provides all types of vehicles, including armored vehicles, as well as high-skilled drivers.^[3]

However, this agency does not provide transportation services to theArmed Forces, nor to the differentlaw enforcement agencies, which have their own car services. In the case of the ministriesof Transport andof Ecological Transition, PME only provides civil transportation to government officials and not the necessary machinery to exercise some of its responsibilities.^[3]

Before the creation of this agency, little is known about how the vehicles at the disposal of the government officials were managed. It is known that, since the beginning of the 1920s, thecommander andindustrial engineer Julio Álvarez Cerón was responsible for the vehicles owned by the Directorate-General for Security and some otherministerial departments. At the end of that decade, government fleet at that time had barely a hundred vehicles.^[4]

In theSecond Republic, the number of vehicles skyrocketed, with more than 500 for both theGovernment Administration and the Administration of Justice.^[4]

For this reason, presidentNiceto Alcalá-Zamora, at the proposal of prime minister and minister of Finance,Joaquín Chapaprieta, issued the Decree of 28 September 1935, which created the current organization with the name of "Vehicle Fleet of Civil Ministries, Surveillance and Security" (PMMCVS), coexisting with those of the ministries ofWar, of theNavy and theCivil Guard. The new institution was part of theMinistry of the Interior.^[4] Later, it was regulated by a Decree of 9 March 1940, shaping it as the State agency in which the car services of all civil departments were concentrated, except the provincial services of theMinistry of Development (today Ministry of Transport).^[5]

Between the 1940s and 1950s, the current headquarters of the agency in Madrid was built, work of architect Ambrosio Arroyo Alonso, as well as the first vehicle auctions were held to get rid of the outdated vehicles of the fleet.^[4] A housing block for the agency's employees was also built in theSan Cristóbal neighborhood with the help of the defunct National Housing Institute (1939–1977).^[4] With the founding ofSEAT in 1950, its models were used as official cars.^[4]

Subsequently, Decree 2764/1967, of November 23, transferred the agency to the Directorate-General for State Heritage of theMinistry of Finance, while promoting the process of unification of the State's automobile services.^[6] The Decree 151/1968, of January 25, renamed it as "Ministerial Vehicle Fleet" (PMM).^[7]

In the current democratic period, the Ministerial Vehicle Fleet was regulated by Royal Decree 280/1987, of January 30, and later by Law 50/1998, of December 30, on Fiscal, Administrative and Social Order Measures, which configured it as an autonomous commercial organization, attached to the Ministry of Finance through the Department's undersecretariat. A few years earlier, in 1983, the first civilian was appointed to head the agency, Eduardo Díaz Romón, and the first female drivers joined: Paula Hernando Ruiz (1988) and Arlestina Sánchez Medel (1991).^[4]

Following the recommendations for restructuring and modernization made by theCourt of Auditors in the 1990s,^[4] the Royal Decree 146/1999, of January 29, was approved, which gave the agency its current name, "State Vehicle Fleet" (PME), as well as modified its nature, structure and responsibilities,^[8] and the Royal Decree 1163/1999, of July 2, which merged the Territorial Delegations and Provincial Fleets into theGovernment Delegations and Subdelegations.^[9]

The last regulation of the agency was approved by theCouncil of Ministers in August 2022, although it did not represent anything new, but rather a recasting of independent regulations approved in the last twenty years.

As of 31 December 2024, the agency's fleet was composed by 649 vehicles (678 in 2023), which traveled almost 6.6 million kilometers and consumed 334,350 litres offuel. The electric fleet, 542 vehicles, recharged 226,706 kWh at the PMEcharging stations. The agency employed 913 people, of which 804 were drivers (845 in 2023), representing 88.06% of the workforce.^[1]

Of the institutions that used these vehicles, theRoyal Household had assigned 43 of them, while theOffice of the Prime Minister had 68. The Royal House has also their own fleet managed by theRoyal Guard. Also, theroyal family had six PME's armoured vehicles at their disposal (the PM's Office had four), more than any other institution.^[1]

The rest of the fleet is distributed among thegovernment departments (150), theGeneral Council of the Judiciary (24) and thecourts of Justice (54), theCouncil of State (16), theCourt of Auditors (16), theConstitutional Court (15) and theParliament (10). There are 253 vehicles that do not have a specific assignment.^[1]

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