The Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility has closed with the National Road Transport Committee (CNTC), which groups the main business associations of road freight transport, a new package of support measures to mitigate the consequences that the war in the Middle East is generating in the sector, while analyzing the granting of direct subsidies.
Representatives of the Ministry and the CNTC met this Friday at the Transport headquarters in Madrid, where they agreed to establish a stable dialogue table. This body will meet for the first time next Monday and will also have the participation of officials from the ministries of Economy and Finance.
Among the decisions adopted this Friday, which will be implemented immediately through an interpretative note, is the obligation to apply the transport price review formula when the cost of fuel has experienced a variation equal to or greater than 5% (or a lower threshold if the parties agree).
Likewise, it is established that the average diesel prices used as reference must be calculated without including taxes, that is, without the Special Hydrocarbon Tax (IEH) or VAT, and that in the review of the transport price neither bonuses nor extraordinary and temporary aid already in force may be computed, such as “the 20 cent per liter discount”.
The Ministry has also specified that said bonus extends to HVO and biodiesel, that the limits of the modules have been extended and that Spain has already sent to the European Commission the notification of the aid scheme, in order to be able to exceed the maximum limit set in “de minimis”.
In the next sessions of the table, the implementation of direct aid to the entire sector will be studied to compensate for the accumulated surcharges from the beginning of the war in Iran until the entry into force of the royal decree-law that set “the 20-cent discount”.
Likewise, a proposal for modification of the indexation formula will be raised so that it automatically and definitively reflects the variations in fuel price at all times, avoiding subsequent revisions, as well as the suppression of the 50,000-liter limit applicable to the refund of professional diesel and of the agreement to the contrary in the obligation to detail in the invoice the adjustment derived from the variation in fuel price.