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intimate Brussels to Greece to recover the aids in terms of fiscal advantages granted to the Piraeus Container Terminal
the EU commission has ordered ALSO the immediate cessation of the concession of ulterior facilities
March 23, 2015
The EU commission has intimato to Greece to recover the economic aids in terms of fiscal facilities granted to the terminalista society Piraeus Container Terminal (PCT) that integrally it is controlled by Chinese COSCO Pacific, society that is under responsibility of the shipowning group Lowers Ocean Shipping (Group) Co. (COSCO). According to Brussels, such facilities have offered to PCT an undue advantage regarding the competitors in violation of the norms of the European Union on the competition.
Besides to speed up the recovery of quotas taxes not collected previously, the EU commission has moreover ordered the immediate cessation of the concession of ulterior facilities.
From on October 1°, 2009 the Piraeus Container Terminal it manages the container terminal to Pier II of the port of the Pireo and soon it will extend own activity also to the new Pier III that will be realized in the Greek port from the terminalista society of the Chinese group.
The investigation of the EU commission on the aids to the PCT is activated as a result of three relative denunciations to presumed supplied illegal aids of State to the society from the Greek government that is introduced in 2009 by the prefect of the Pireo, from the Greek union of the harbour workers and from the International Dockworkers Council (IDC).
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The EU commission has intimato to Greece to recover the economic aids in terms of fiscal facilities granted to the terminalista society Piraeus Container Terminal (PCT) that integrally it is controlled by Chinese COSCO Pacific, society that is under responsibility of the shipowning group Lowers Ocean Shipping (Group) Co. (COSCO). According to Brussels, such facilities have offered to PCT an undue advantage regarding the competitors in violation of the norms of the European Union on the competition.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
