Text file: 4130.txt
author: sebastjan hostnik
downvotes: 0
end consideration date: 2013-01-17
id: '4130'
number comments: 1
number views: 1522
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response from the Ministry of Finance\nExcise duties on energy products\
  \ and electricity are harmonised by Council Directive 2003/96/EC of 27 October 2003\
  \ restructuring the Community framework for the taxation of energy products and\
  \ electricity (the Energy Directive), which lays down common rules for all EU Member\
  \ States on the taxation of energy products and electricity by setting minimum excise\
  \ duties and the possibility of providing for exemptions from or reductions in excise\
  \ duty for certain uses of energy products and electricity. The provisions of the\
  \ Energy Directive are transposed nationally in the Excise Duties Act (Official\
  \ Journal of the Republic of Slovenia No 97/10-UPB8, 48/12 and 109/12; hereinafter\
  \ referred to as the Act) and the implementation of the provisions of the Act is\
  \ defined in the Regulations under the Act.\nThe Energy Directive does not provide\
  \ for the possibility to reimburse part of the excise duty for fire-fighting vehicles\
  \ and equipment, as is provided for, for example, for machinery and machinery in\
  \ agriculture or construction, as you state in your proposal. Your proposal on the\
  \ refund of excise duty on firefighting vehicles and equipment cannot be incorporated\
  \ into national legislation for the reason stated.\nThe current legislation already\
  \ allows fire brigades to recover part of the excise duty on gas oil for propulsion\
  \ if the weight of the fire-fighting vehicle is at 7,5 tonnes and the vehicle is\
  \ intended for the transport of goods (e.g. water). More detailed conditions for\
  \ the refund of a part of the excise duty on gas oil for propulsion purposes are\
  \ laid down in Article 54c of the Law and in the Regulation on the refund of excise\
  \ duty for commercial purposes (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia No\
  \ 52/09, 68/09, 82/10 and 109/12-ZTro-M).\n "
response date: 2013-02-07
response due date: null
sent date: 2012-12-19
title: Possibility to refund part of the excise duty for firefighters
upvotes: 13
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/4130
