The European Commission reminds Spain that it promised to introduce tolls in 2024 in its Recovery Plan The measure is linked to the disbursement of the fifth tranche of the plan, which quantities to greater than 8,000 million euros The Government has flatly denied that it’s going to apply tolls on highways beginning subsequent yr
The European Commission has corrected the Government this Thursday and has confirmed that the Spanish restoration and resilience plan accepted by Brussels contains the dedication to undertake a regulation on sustainable mobility and transport financing and to introduce a fee mechanism for using roads from 2024, though simply three days in the past the Minister of Transport, Raquel Sánchez, “categorically” denied it.
“We perceive that the Spanish plan refers to a fee mechanism for using roads that can start in 2024 in step with the precept of ‘whoever pollutes, pays'”, confirmed the Commission’s financial spokesperson, Veerle Nuyts, at a press convention.
The measure was introduced per week in the past by the director of the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT), Pere Navarro, and later denied by the Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Raquel Sánchez, who thought of the controversy that arose across the potential fee of a toll for using highways in Spain as “settled” and “categorically” denied that it was going to be paid.
However, the Community Executive has confirmed that the measure seems within the plan that was accepted by each Brussels and the Member States and seems linked, particularly, to the disbursement of the fifth tranche of the plan, which quantities to greater than 8,000 million euros.
“We will consider this measure once we attain the fifth request for fee from Spain, so it’s not a dialogue for at this time,” the Commission spokesperson added.
This can also be included within the textual content of the plan to which Brussels gave its approval, the place it’s specified that the measure has the target of “internalizing the exterior prices of street transport, creating incentives to realize larger effectivity on this sector and selling a discount in greenhouse gasoline emissions”.
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