In a letter to Kostis Hatzidakis, Thodoris Skylakakis, and Konstantinos Tsiaras, the President of the Athens Chamber of Commerce, Yannis Hatzitheodosiou, conveys the anxiousness of many businessmen concerning the return of the state subsidy, which had been given for the consumption of electrical energy within the interval 2022-2023 , and requires a direct decision of the matter.
“Due to the above, expressing our direct opposition to the above practices, that are by no means applicable in a democratic society, we request the rapid intervention of the competent Ministries with the purpose of revoking the controversial ministerial determination, which irreparably impacts an enormous variety of companies and their households”, indicated within the letter.
The Letter intimately
“In the previous few days we’ve got obtained heaps of complaints from companies, which belong to the dynamics of the members of the Athens Chamber of Commerce and never solely, during which the businessmen specific their anxiousness but in addition their query in regards to the extreme prices, which they suffered immediately and with out prior info from the electrical energy suppliers, receiving from the most recent inflated electrical energy payments.
Particularly, the accounts in query, which bear the designation “Extraordinary Account” and have been principally issued on 29/06/2024, embrace as a cost solely the return of the state subsidy, which had been given for the consumption of electrical energy by February 2022 by way of to December 2023, virtually asking businessmen for what we think about to be an impermissible return of the electrical energy subsidies they obtained throughout that interval in an effort to alleviate them of the exorbitant will increase within the worth of electrical energy, however and as a measure to strengthen the viability of their companies!
After all, the electrical energy suppliers proceeded with these prices after the “inexperienced gentle”, which they obtained from the State underneath Ministerial Determination YPEN/D HE/62035/1037 (Authorities Gazette 3268/ISSUE B’), which was issued the next day of the European elections, i.e. on 10.06.2024, the place electrical energy suppliers have been basically given the appropriate to proceed inside a really brief time frame, till 30.06.2024, to difficulty abstract accounts with which they may request the return of the above subsidies, the which in keeping with estimates quantity to a number of million euros, as they concern 1000’s of companies and freelancers!
So, one fairly wonders: what’s the assist for companies, when within the midst of a number of crises within the home economic system, the State, in an try and calm the spirits of the extreme protests in opposition to the rise in electrical energy, reinforces the electrical energy consumption of companies with state subsidies after which offers free rein to the suppliers to request the return of those aids?? And in reality inside suffocating and rigid deadlines, as could be seen from the issued payments, which have a cost deadline of 19/07/2024 or 23/07/2024, placing the operation of companies in danger, as everyone knows that the suppliers are transferring instantly now and with small money owed because of the interruption of the electrical energy provide, a devastating occasion for companies on the given time, the place we’re in the midst of maybe the most popular summer time in current many years, but in addition the vacationer season, which is in progress.
It thus turns into clear that the belief between citizen and state, which trendy democracy requires, is irreparably shaken by practices, such because the one above, which deprive the citizen of the appropriate to info and to react to actions, which irreparably hurt his situation .
As a result of above, expressing our direct opposition to the above practices, which do by no means befit a democratic society, we request the rapid intervention of the competent Ministries with the purpose of withdrawing the disputed ministerial determination, which irreparably impacts an enormous variety of companies and their households”.
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