sA agreement was reached between the government and the motorway concessionaires (SCA), announced on Thursday the Minister of Economy, Emmanuel Macron. This agreement validates a motorway stimulus package of 3.2 billion euros in exchange for a mean delay of two years of the term of current concessions, said the minister.
Wednesday, while discussions were still ongoing, the Prime Minister Manuel Valls had already announced that highway tolls would not increase in 2015, and that the SCA would agree 500 million additional investment in infrastructure and transport projects.
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In late January, the government had frozen the motorway tariffs, pending the conclusions of a working group. He had, on March 10, recommended including an additional contribution from highways to finance infrastructure companies but was deemed “particularly adventurous” a concession termination process, which would void the recovery plan already accepted by Brussels.
The announcement of Mr. Macron seems to mark the conclusion of a further six-month standoff between the government and the SCA, triggered by the publication of a report by the Authority Competition in September 2014. This independent body had pointed “extraordinary profitability” of ACS, amid rising higher tolls to inflation since privatization there nearly 10 years, and likened the situation to a “rent “.
The SCA had refuted these findings and claimed that their profitability would be calculated on the entire concession period is thirty years, and was well below the 20% cited by the Authority.
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