“`html
Bratislava – In toll charges for heavy items automobiles, carriers will now additionally pay charges for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and exterior prices related to site visitors air pollution. This follows from the modification to the Act on toll assortment for using designated sections of roads, which was signed by Slovak President Peter Pellegrini on Friday and which implements the Eurovignette directive. The president’s workplace knowledgeable TASR about this.
The principle purpose of the revised street charging guidelines (Eurovignette directive), agreed upon by EU establishments in 2021, is to deal with greenhouse gasoline emissions and different environmental impacts, street congestion, and street infrastructure financing.
The modification to the legislation additionally features a discount within the motorized vehicle tax for heavy items automobiles over 12 tons. The principle motive for adjusting its charges is the state’s assist for carriers in changing tachographs. “As well as, it’s proposed to appropriately scale back the tax charges for automobiles over 3.5 tons as much as 12 tons, which additionally pay charges for using street infrastructure (tolls for using designated sections of motorways, expressways, and Class I roads) in Slovakia,” the Ministry of Transport said within the explanatory report.
The change in charges doesn’t apply to automobiles as much as 3.5 tons, as they don’t pay tolls however somewhat time-valid freeway stickers. The modification additionally unifies the adjustment of tax charges based mostly on the age of the automobile for every type of automobiles as much as 3.5 tons and over 3.5 tons.
Members of parliament authorized an modification by Ľubomír Vážny (Smer-SD), which provides historic automobiles to the exemptions from toll funds. Roughly 80 historic automobiles over 3.5 tons needs to be positioned within the Slovak territory, with automobiles beneath this weight restrict at present exempt from paying the freeway sticker.
Opposition MP Marek Lackovič (PS) proposed making a system of toll charge reductions and introducing a minimal low cost degree for buses. The proposal, geared toward stopping a rise in public transportation prices, was rejected by parliamentarians.
The modification will probably be efficient from January 1, 2025. The exception is provisions on toll assortment modifications, which is able to apply from July 1, 2025. (December 13)
“`
