Text file: 4319.txt
author: "Roman Margu\u010D"
downvotes: 5
end consideration date: 2013-03-19
id: '4319'
number comments: 33
number views: 5294
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response from the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment\nIn this specific\
  \ case in Celje, the issue is not the introduction of a tax, but the introduction\
  \ of separate pricing for the discharge and treatment of rainwater from roofs discharged\
  \ into public sewers.\nThe discharge and treatment of rainwater from roofs discharged\
  \ into the public sewerage system is a compulsory service of the compulsory municipal\
  \ public utility service of discharge and treatment of municipal and rainwater in\
  \ accordance with the Environmental Protection Act (Official Journal of the Republic\
  \ of Slovenia, No 39/2006 - Official consolidated text, No 49/2006 - ZMetD, No 66/2006\
  \ - Ord.US, 33/2007 - ZPNa\u010Drt, 57/2008 - ZFO - 1A, 70/2008, 108/2009, 48/2012,\
  \ 57/2012) and the Regulation on the discharge and treatment of urban and precipitation\
  \ wastewater (Official Gazette No. 88/2011, 8/2012). The fact that the discharge\
  \ and treatment of precipitation wastewater from roofs discharged into the public\
  \ sewerage system is a compulsory service of the public utility was, prior to the\
  \ aforementioned Regulation, also prescribed by the applicable by-laws regulating\
  \ the public utility service.\nIn the event that rainwater run-off from roofs is\
  \ discharged into the public sewerage system, certain costs are incurred in the\
  \ actual provision of the public service, since the actual provision of the services\
  \ of discharging and treating this rainwater is in fact carried out. However, specific\
  \ costs are also incurred which are exclusively linked to the discharge and treatment\
  \ of rainwater, for example in cases where an area is provided with public sewers\
  \ for the discharge of rainwater only, or in cases where an area is provided with\
  \ public sewers for the discharge of a mixture of urban waste water and rainwater,\
  \ where municipalities and public sewerage system operators have statutory obligations\
  \ in this respect, such as the implementation of technical measures for the containment\
  \ of the sewage sludge in retention and mechanical treatment facilities and for\
  \ the discharge and treatment of the retained sewage sludge in a municipal or common\
  \ sewage treatment plant after the end of the rainfall event.\nPrior to the adoption\
  \ of the Regulation on the methodology for setting the prices of services of compulsory\
  \ municipal utilities for environmental protection (Official Journal of the Republic\
  \ of Slovenia No 63/2009), these costs should have been included in the uniform\
  \ price for the discharge and treatment of urban waste water and precipitation waste\
  \ water. Otherwise, the price of the services did not include the costs incurred\
  \ and they were covered by other means (municipalities covering the losses of the\
  \ public service operator, depreciation write-offs, etc.). The above-mentioned regulation\
  \ (the same issue is also addressed by the current Regulation on the methodology\
  \ for setting the prices of services of compulsory municipal utilities for environmental\
  \ protection) introduced separate pricing for the service of discharging and treating\
  \ rainwater from roofs, mainly in order to enforce the \"polluter pays\" principle,\
  \ i.e. the costs of the service are paid by the users who actually use it, i.e.\
  \ those who discharge rainwater from roofs into the public sewerage system. This\
  \ charging method is also intended to encourage measures that reduce the discharge\
  \ of roof runoff into public sewers where possible and justified. In built-up areas\
  \ which are required to be provided with public sewers, the implementation of measures\
  \ to reduce the quantities of rainwater discharged to public sewers is also required\
  \ by the Regulation on the collection and treatment of urban waste water and rainwater.\
  \ It should also be noted that, in the case of the pricing of roof drainage and\
  \ treatment of rainwater from roofs, the costs of these services may not be included\
  \ in other public service charges at the same time.\nIn view of the above, we consider\
  \ that the normative regulation is appropriate and that the control over the justification\
  \ of the inclusion of costs in the prices of individual services of the compulsory\
  \ municipal public utility for the collection and treatment of urban waste water\
  \ and precipitation waste water is, in accordance with the applicable regulations,\
  \ within the competence of the municipalities, which also approve the prices of\
  \ the services of the compulsory municipal public utilities.\n "
response date: 2013-03-27
response due date: null
sent date: 2013-02-18
title: Rainfall tax
upvotes: 39
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/4319
