The Parliament approved the amendment of the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, according to which the Greek State recognizes all types of debts of the Fire Brigade to the international organization under the name Nato Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) totaling 8,457 .481.64 euros.
The debt concerns administrative costs and services of technical, flight and logistical support – maintenance of the air means of the Fire Brigade, as well as air firefighting services, through rental of forest firefighting helicopters provided by the organization to Greece during the years 2011-2016.
The amendment was submitted by the ministry in the framework of the draft law of the Ministry of Development and Investment on “Modernization of competition law for the digital age – Amendment of law 3959/2011 and incorporation of Directive (EU) 2019/1 of the European Parliament and the Of 11 December 2018 on empowering the competition authorities of the Member States to enforce the rules more effectively and to ensure the proper functioning of the internal market “.
According to the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, this amendment definitively resolves the issue of the country’s debt to the NSPA (NATO Support and Procurement Agency), totaling 8,457,481.64 euros.
“Today closes a chronic problem that has plagued the country since 2011 and hampered the country’s ability to properly prepare in the critical sector of forest firefighting, through the timely lease of the necessary aircraft. “It was a landmine for the country, a permanent issue that has finally been resolved,” said Christos Stylianidis, the Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection from Luxembourg, who thanked the Greek this initiative of the government “.
“Given this, the discussions we are already having with the NSPA, here in Luxembourg, on future air leases for the next firefighting period and with a horizon of three to five years, are now taking place on a new basis, with clearly strengthened Greek negotiation. position. “The eroded credibility of the country, which the Greek people have restored with so much effort in recent years, is now being finally restored in this field as well”, Mr. Stylianidis underlined.
It is noted that the Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection will be today and tomorrow in Luxembourg and Brussels, holding a series of meetings with European officials and senior officials of the NSPA (NATO Support and Procurement Agency).
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