The device of environmental tax on heavy weight is suspended indefinitely. This was announced Thursday, October 8 departments of Ecology and Transportation during a meeting with the federations of motor carriers.
“[Ségolène Royal and Alain Vidal have] decided, first, to suspend indefinitely the environmental tax system, secondly to create a working group [...] Third, intensify the search for solutions to the economic and social situation of the overall sector . “
Road suspend their movement
The federations of motor carriers in the wake announced the suspension of their movement. They threatened to protest from Monday, October 13 against the toll of transit trucks.
The environmental levy, originally scheduled to take effect in July 2013, has been postponed twice before being suspended and then replaced by tolls transit. This was to be implemented by 1 January 2015, but was pushed back to the first months of 2015.
The national secretary of the Greens Europe Ecology- shocked
Emmanuelle Cosse , national secretary of the Europe Ecology-Greens (EELV) expressed “just shocked.” According to her, “if this eco-tax was put in place, it was mostly for a shift from road traffic, less pollution and harmonize at European level, which is already in for other countries “
And adds:.
” And today, we stop everything because he there is an ultimatum road even though they had a lot of counterparties to the levy since 2009. “
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