Highway companies must “contribute financially to the ecological transition,” said the Minister of Transport, Clément Beaune, in an interview published this Friday in Le Monde, who also mentioned a future “public work” on the concession model.
“In the coming years, the highway companies will have to contribute financially to the transition: we will discuss that in the coming months, without taboos, even at the fiscal level,” he declared, without further details.
It also calls on companies in the short term to “use their margins to invest more in the ecological transition (electrical terminals in all areas, parking for shared vehicles, etc.”).
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Tolls on the French motorway networks have increased since February 1. The increase, which averages 4.75%, was higher than in previous years.
Regarding the model of concessions that expire after 2030, Beaune announces that “in the spring a public work will be launched with parliamentarians, economists, non-governmental organizations, the highway companies themselves, on the ‘future of concessions’.
“Should the highway continue to finance the highway in the future, or should tolls finance rail transport in particular? We need to build another model,” he says.
The Transport Regulatory Authority proposed in January to the State to favor shorter contracts between highway companies and the State, to give the latter greater room for manoeuvre, while the main concessions -among which Vinci, Eiffage and Sanef stand out- – will expire between 2031 and 2036 .
Source: BFM TV
