The appeal to the Council of State for the waste burial fee announced the president of KEDE, Lazaros Kyrizoglou, stressing that the municipalities have no responsibility for the fact that recycling did not go as far as it should.

“The program around the construction of waste treatment units and the program around recycling is controlled by the competent Ministry of Environment and Energy. What is the purpose of imposing these fees, which end up in the National Recycling Organization, which is supervised, managed by the ministry? What does the law say? That the money must be returned to the Municipalities” he said, noting that EOAN has 35 million euros from the Municipalities and another 240 million euros will be collected by October.”

“We will appeal to Greek justice in order to cancel the decision by which the CAPs are cut in order to pay the burial fee. But because the courts are delayed, we will not stop there. We will come forward and ask with our own proposal, which we will decide on December 13 with the recommendation of the competent Committee, in order to give us blue bins, brown bins, recycling waste trucks up to the amount of 240 million euros concerning the burial fees that they will be withheld by the CAP until October 2024″ said the president of KEDE and mayor of Ampelokipi – Menemeni.

He also emphasized that at the meeting of the Board of Directors of KEDE, the Minister of Environment and Energy, Thodoros Skylakakis, has been invited to present the official government proposal to address the issue of Municipal Water Supply and Sewerage Companies, especially those that owe large sums.

“No one should be alone. From the smallest to the largest municipality, we join forces and claim with one voice” said the president of PEDKM, Ignatios Kaitezidis and he referred to the pathologies that afflict the Local Government, such as the burial fee, the suffocating financial framework and the abolition of legal persons stressing that the time has come for a substantial, brave reform for a modern, European self-government.

Among others, the Secretary General of the Ministry of the Interior, Michalis Stavrianoudakis, the newly elected regional governor of Western Macedonia, Giorgos Amanatidis, the president of PED East, Macedonia and Thrace, Vassilis Mavridis and the managing director of EETAA, Spyros Spyridon, also addressed greetings.