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Proposal EU in order to authorize Sweden to reduce the fiscal imposition on "cold ironing"
Previewed a decrease of the taxes on the supply of electricity distributed from the nets terrestrial electrical workers to the ships moored in the ports
April 8, 2011
Today the EU commission has adopted a relative proposal to a decision of the Council EU that authorizes Sweden to apply an abatement of tax on the supply of electric power from the net of earth to the ships moored in the ports, with the so-called system of "cold ironing". The decision has the objective to promote uses it of electricity distributed from the nets terrestrial electrical workers by the ships to the mooring in order to allow they to extinguish the engines and to reduce the pollution in the harbour areas.
Sweden, with the scope to characterize the ships with the greater consumption of electric power generated from the edge engines and to limit the number of the beneficiaries of this tax cut, intends to diminish the tax to the ships at least 400 tons of tonnage and to the supplies of electric power from at least 380 terrestrial net volt of power.
Brussels has specified that this decision will be discussed and authorized by the States of the EU and will be applied for a period three-year-old.
We remember that in Italy many ports are being equipped in order to supply electric power to the ships from the earth net; between these: Venice, La Spezia, Genoa, Olbia and Civitavecchia. This last one, Italian pioneer of the cold ironing, last year had asked stimulating rates in order to promote uses it of this system ( on 3 February 2010).
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