Ministry of Agriculture Characterizes Parliament's Rejection of the Landfill Levy as a Highly Negative Development
The Decision, Noted in an Announcement, Makes It Impossible to Disburse Twenty-Three Million in European Funding for Waste Sorting and Modernization Projects.
The voting down of the reform for the landfill levy deprives local authorities of significant European resources, the Ministry of Agriculture reports, calling it a highly negative development.
The decision, noted in an announcement, makes it impossible to disburse twenty-three million in European funding for waste sorting and modernization projects.
With national co-financing, it adds, the total available resources would have amounted to 48 million euros.
The current government, the Ministry of Agriculture states, following suggestions from local authorities as well, had succeeded in reducing the fee from 35 to 10 euros, less than one euro per month per household.
Today's rejection, it is noted, strips local authorities of resources they themselves requested, limits the tools for modernizing waste management, and once again shifts the cost of inaction onto society and the environment.
