The State Vehicle Fleet (Spanish: Parque Móvil del Estado, PME) is an autonomous agency of the Spanish Department of Finance responsible for providing transportation to national-level authorities, both for the General State Administration and for the constitutional bodies (Royal Household, Parliament, Supreme Court, Constitutional Court, etc.).
It is known that, since the beginning of the 1920s, the commander and industrial engineer Julio Álvarez Cerón was responsible for the vehicles owned by the Directorate-General for Security and some other ministerial departments.
[4] For this reason, president Niceto 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 of War, of the Navy and the Civil Guard.
[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 the Court 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 the Government Delegations and Subdelegations.