The government is completely consistent with its pre-election commitment to reduce ENFIA, the Minister of Finance stressed in Parliament, Christos Staikouras. “We were committed to (reduction) 30% and we reach 35%. No other intervention can be made in ENFIA. Already, we are completely consistent with what we had said before the elections and in fact, at a higher percentage “stressed the Minister of Finance, Christos Staikouras, speaking during the second day of its elaboration bill for modernization of Hellenic Capital Market Commission by the relevant parliamentary committee.
On its provisions billwhich includes arrangements for vulnerable debtors, the new reduced ENFIA, and excise duty on systematic distillers and two-day producers, expressed the opinion of the representatives of the interested bodies.
THE chairman of Economic Chamber of Greece, Кон. Kollias said that the bill upgrades and modernizes the operation of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission, “in particular, where in previous years there were phenomena of obstruction and impunity, which discredited the image of the country to potential investors.” In order to activate the program for the protection of the first home of vulnerable households, he said that the regulation is becoming particularly important today, as price increases have limited the disposable income of households. However, he reiterated the AIF’s view that “vulnerable households should be given the opportunity to regain ownership of their home after a reasonable period of time”. As for ENFIA, he proposed the exemption of legal entities from the additional ENFIA, due to energy and economic prospects, as well as the exemption or reduction of ENFIA for unemployed or low-income people with real estate under 100 thousand euros, which does not bring them income .
THE chairman of Hellenic Capital Market Commission, Vasiliki Rizeakou said that the bill is in the right direction. He demanded, however, that the training and modification of the EC body be done by her and not by ministerial decision. On the part of the employees in the Hellenic Capital Market Commission, the President Ms. Maria Margaritsanaki said that the proposed provisions do not solve “the huge and chronic problems caused by both the memorandum regulations and the indifference of the last leadership of the Ministry of Finance”.
In matters ENFIA focused o chairman of Panhellenic Federation of Property Owners, Str. Paradias. As he said, there will be significant relief for taxpayers with already low tax liabilities, but at the same time, there will be charges of unknown amount for those owners who own real estate in areas where fair values ​​have increased significantly or who have joined the fairing system for the first time or holding even indivisible shares or individual rights in rem on real estate with a total objective value of more than 300 thousand euros.
Then, o chairman of Federation of Abyssinians and Viticulture Growers of Greece, V. Papagrigoriou said that with the bill there is a tax deduction for small distillers 85%, ie 10% “more than what we asked for”. However, he attributed responsibilities to the competent services that did not call the Federation, when they submitted a technical file to the EU in 2017, with the result that “certain conditions are introduced, (based on which) we can not produce tsipouro and tsikoudia. It excludes us. “
D. Apostolakis, chairman of the Board of Association of Distillers of Wine Products of Greece, He said – among other things – that “with the incorporation into Greek legislation of Directive 2020/1151 and with this bill, European legitimacy is restored, [..] as the deletion of the geographical indication tsipouro and tsikoudia from article 82 of law 2960/2001 aligns the Greek legislation with the requirements of the Law of the European Union on geographical indications. The terms tsipouro and tsikoudia are registered terms with a corresponding technical file in the European Union, while both the European Commission and the Greek State itself recognize that the term can only refer to the product of systematic distillers. These terms are acquired and in fact a formal inaccuracy that was enshrined in law 2960/2001 is removed “.
Asterios Tsikritsis, member of the Board of Association of Abyssinians of Tyrnavos and Larissasaid that “the name of tsipouro and tsikoudia belonged and belongs to the two-day winemakers and now the current government is coming to remove our name and give it its own name […] All the vine growers of the country have revolted with the baptisms you want to do in our product, the tsipouro and the tsikoudia! What bothers you to be called a traditional tsipouro or tsikoudia of two days and let the bottled people say, that they found us and we did not find them, as they want “. The representative of the Association of Greek Producers of Alcoholic Spirits, K. Tsililis said that “the traditional character of distillation for family consumption should not be lost” but what “is required is the protection of public health, the restriction of unfair competition and the protection of the European-protected, but also now registered in the Geneva Register of Deeds of the Geographical Indication “Tsipouro / Tsikoudia” “.
Her legal advisor Consumers Association “The Quality of Life” (EKPOIZO), P. Sgouras spoke about the suspension of enforcement proceedings against the borrowers, and said that the limits to characterize some vulnerable borrowers are very low, while “the proposed provisions will definitely lead them to a worse position.”
Finally, in his intervention, o Deputy Minister of Finance, Apostolos Vesyropoulos said that if we used the name tsipouro and tsikoudia, the two-day (distillers) would have to meet the conditions of the technical file, submitted by the SYRIZA government in 2017, […] in terms of equipment, method of production and standardization of the product, and most importantly, “to impose an excise duty of 12.25 euros per liter of anhydrous ethyl alcohol, instead of the reduced 3.70 euros, established by the draft law.” In the issue of the official name, we are in front of a one-way street, so that the exaggerated rate of 3.70 euros can be used, and there is no choice, said Mr. Vesyropoulos.
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