The Government approves limiting the rise in freeway tolls to 4% in 2023


A line of 23.3 million is enabled and gadgets can be supplied to partially mitigate the rise between 2024 and 2026 and to be staggered. The goal, based on the division headed by Raquel Sánchez, is “to assist residents face the present situation of excessive costs of vitality

The Government has accepted limiting to 4% the rise in tolls on eleven toll highways in 2023 to mitigate the 8.4% improve in charges because of the evolution of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the impact of the revisions extraordinary in three of them, as reported by the Ministry of Transport.

The goal, based on the division headed by Raquel Sánchez, is “to assist residents face the present situation of excessive vitality costs, derived from the persistence of the battle in Ukraine after the Russian invasion, which particularly impacts mobility and family disposable revenue.

Thus, the Royal Decree-law to answer the financial and social penalties of the battle in Ukraine accepted at this time by the Council of Ministers, on the proposal of the Ministry of Transport, articulates a mechanism to comprise the 2023 price improve at 4%, supported by customers on the AP-51, AP-61, AP-53, AP-66, AP-7 Alicante-Cartagena, AP-7 Málaga-Guadiaro, AP-68 and AP-71, AP-9, AP motorways -6 and AP-46.

At this level, and in step with the Government’s goal of stopping the inflationary spiral and supporting households, it has been determined to freeze the motorway tolls managed by SEITT, which on account of monetary issues reverted to the State.

Between 2023 and 2026, the Ministry will subsidize a part of the revenue that the concessionaires will cease receiving subsequent 12 months because of the containment of the rise in tolls.

Specifically, a line of 23.3 million euros is enabled to finance the discount of the rise in charges in 2023 and the duty is established for the General State Administration to supply the mandatory gadgets to partially mitigate the rise between 2024 and 2026 in order that it’s staggered.

“It have to be taken under consideration that the rise in charges is cumulative, therefore the necessity to cross on to the consumer once more the distinction that he doesn’t pay in 2023, the 12 months by which they had been anticipated to rise by round 8.38% on account of inflation, though little by little, in order that it may be assumed in higher situations by the residents”, explains Transportes.

In the case of the AP-7 Alicante-Cartagena, along with the atypical overview by the IPC, a unprecedented 1% improve in charges have to be utilized to repay a participatory mortgage that the State made to pay for the expropriations, so which, with out measures, would rise 9.46%. Even so, it has been accepted that subsequent 12 months’s improve will even be 4%, so the atypical improve is proscribed to three%, rising the related compensation, to which is added 1% of the extraordinary.

The AP-46 Alto de Las Pedrizas-Málaga and the AP-9 Autopista del Atlántico should additionally apply a unprecedented revision of the tariff to generate funds with which to compensate the works carried out to enhance the infrastructures and that implied modifying the situations of the concessions .

Thus, though the will increase in tolls in 2023 on these roads attain 9.46%, the Government has additionally determined to restrict the rise to 4% and improve the subsidy to compensate for the revenue that customers cease receiving.