ICT AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR MORE EFFICIENT ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL 413 services in what has come to be called, with greater or lesser fortune, a collaborative economy. Without going into an exhaustive analysis of this economic phenomenon, it must be stated that it represents an important challenge for the tourism sector, especially in terms of regulation, as it is not entirely clear if they must submit to the same rules as the rest of companies and professionals or not46. There are doubts, therefore, of whether we are facing services rendered in unfair competition47. In any case, what is clear, in my opinion, is that this new model was born at the mercy of the development of ICT. 5. THE CONTROL ACTIVITY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS IN THE DIGITAL AMBIT It is worth mentioning the possibilities offered by ICTs to public administrations for the fulfilment of their mission of control and supervision of tourist activities. We have already referred to the fact that the development of ICT by companies and operators in the tourism market, together with the extensive liberalisation that the sector has undergone in the last ten years, have contributed to the administrative activity control is more and more difficult for competent administrations. Thus, the systematic substitution of prior authorisations by subsequent control systems (responsible declarations and previous communications) have placed the administrations in a difficult position48. However, the decisive impulse to the development of e-Government from Laws 39 and 40 of 2015, both of 1 October (of Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations and of Legal Regime of the Public Sector, respectively), and the possibility to use, after legal authorisation, new control systems beyond the traditional ones, can help to fulfil this mission of supervision of the tourist market. In this sense, Public Administrations, through the use of technologies such as big data, blockchain or cloud computing, can significantly improve their effectiveness when it comes to verifying compliance with the requirements 46 LAGUNA DE PAZ, J. C., “The role of regulation in the so-called collaborative economy”, Journal of European Studies, no. 70, 2017, p. 159. 47 MIRANDA SERRANO, L. M., “Economía colaborativa y competencia desleal: ¿deslealtad por violación de normas a través de la prestación de servicios facilitados por plataformas digitales?”, Revista de Estudios Europeos, no. 70, 2017, p. 197. 48 CORRAL SASTRE, A., op. cit.
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