The Plenary Session of the Parliament voted to increase the garbage charges for the houses from 100 pounds, which is currently at 250 euros, in favor of a bill with 29 votes in favor, 1 against and 2 abstentions.
According to the report of the Parliamentary Committee on Home Affairs, the bill provided for the abolition of the provisions that set the maximum fees and fees for cleaning and collection, collection and management of garbage, for overnight stay in hotels, tourist accommodation and boarding houses. exercise of certain types of businesses, industries, professions, trades or trade within the municipal limits and for the maintenance or use of professional premises and was submitted to Parliament on 31 March 2011.
The report states that the Parliamentary Committee on the Interior, having taken into account all that was put before it and especially the need to cover the increased costs of municipal waste treatment based on decisions taken, unanimously decided to redraft several provisions of the bill, so as not to repeal under amended basic legislation ceilings on fees and charges for overnight stays in hotels, tourist accommodation and hostels, for the exercise of certain types of businesses, industries, professions, trades or trade within the municipal limits and for the maintenance or use of professional premises.
The Parliament also decided to increase the current ceiling of the garbage fee imposed on homes from one hundred pounds (£ 100), currently in force, to two hundred and fifty euros (€ 250) and to convert the current ceilings from Cyprus pounds into euros. of the garbage fee imposed on other categories of premises, other than houses, provided for in the basic legislation.
In its report, the Committee on Home Affairs calls on the executive to reconsider the legal framework for the payment of garbage charges on premises within municipal boundaries and to consider whether it is appropriate to differentiate both the categories of premises and the premises referred to in the relevant legislation. relevant ceilings per category of premises, taking into account any proposals that will be submitted by local authorities and other stakeholders.
The MP of the Ecologists' Movement, Charalambos Theopemptou, after stating that from June 2016 we had to manage 65% of the household waste, so that it does not end up in the garbage dumps, said that even today many areas are not recycled.
Of the 5 options given to us by the EU for household waste, we ended up in landfills, he said, adding that there is no separate sorting of organic waste and no attempt was made to implement the system to be charged as we fly.
The Ecologists' Movement in the face of the two evils abstains, he added.