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New law on ports administration would be very damaging for Romanian state budget, Fondul Proprietatea says

Fondul Proprietatea is concerned by the renewed steps to approve the draft law amending the Government Ordinance on ports administration, which was re-examined and approved through an emergency procedure by the Senate on 15 May, despite being declared unconstitutional in its entirety by the Constitutional Court on 28 February 2017.

2017-06-20 15:01:41 - From the Print Edition

If implemented, the law would be very damaging for all of Romania′s port administrations and the Romanian state budget, leading to tens of millions of Euro in lost revenues for Constanta Port alone, the Fund says.

According to provisions in the draft law, the level of rent for a port′s land and infrastructure leased to operators who refuse to sign rental contracts should be fixed for a ten-year period at the level currently paid based on contracts for the so-called utilization of ports domain (UDP), which for example in Constanta Port varies between 0.22 RON and 0.36 RON per square meter per month.

Most of these contracts were concluded some ten -15 years ago, without any public tender, in non-transparent circumstances and the rents have remained largely unchanged ever since. By comparison, land available for logistic and industrial purposes in areas with significantly less attractive access to infrastructure around major cities in Romania are rented at levels several times those to be paid in Constanta Port if the law entered into force, a press release shows.

"Freezing the rents at the current minimum levels for the next ten years will result in lost revenues of tens of millions of Euro for Constanta Port alone, while also representing a dangerous precedent where a law is directly setting prices in contracts between two legal entities," said Greg Konieczny, Fondul Proprietatea CEO and Portfolio Manager. "This money could be put to better use through investments in Romania′s ports rather than creating unfair benefits for private operators."

Fondul Proprietatea also claimed that this law will lead to a slowdown in the development of the ports.
"This is because many of the current operators - who do not have the willingness or financial strength to invest in new facilities or refurbish the existing ones - will have less incentive to give up the land they currently occupy at very low rents in very attractive areas of the ports to other operators with the means to develop them faster."

Moreover, in the form declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court, the law establishes a Supervisory Body, set up under the authority of the Competition Council, which would be responsible for approving all tariffs charged by Romania′s ports and resolve all disputes between port administrations and port operators, according to the same source.
Fondul Proprietatea requires the Chamber of Deputies to reject the law, considering the negative impact it will have on the Romanian state budget and assets and its consequences on port administrations who would be denied the right to charge rents and other tariffs according to free market rules.



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