A photo illustration shows the Uber app on a mobile telephone, as it is held up for a posed photograph, in London, Britain November 10, 2017. REUTERS/Simon Dawson
BRASILIA: The head of Brazil's lower house of Congress said he hopes that the chamber will approve the Senate version of a bill regulating ride-hailing apps such as Uber Technologies Inc.
Speaker Rodrigo Maia told Reuters that car-hailing apps should be regulated by the municipal authorities of each city as proposed in the original bill submitted to his chamber, before lawmakers added amendments stipulating more onerous regulations.
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