The increase in the price of non-road diesel, used mainly in construction and public works, initially scheduled for July 1, 2021, is postponed by a year and a half, to January 1, 2023. A government decision that relieves the work sector public, but sorry for environmentalists.
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This is good news for the building and public works sector: the government announced on Tuesday that the price of non-road diesel (RNG), used mainly for construction machinery, would not increase in July of this year, contrary to forecasts.
This increase is postponed by almost a year and a half, to January 1, 2023.
Increase of 40 cents
No need to add difficulty to an already weakened sector: this is the reasoning which led the government to postpone a significant increase in the price of RNG.
As of July 1, 2021, the tax on energy products was to drop from 19 to around 59 euro cents per liter.
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After a difficult year 2020 due to Covid-19, the public works sector is now facing soaring commodity prices: "Given the global recovery in the United States and China, we have a surge in prices on materials, on wood or steel, with increases of 30% ", explains Bruno Cavagné, president of the National Federation of Public Works.
"We did not need to have this problem of this off-road diesel in addition."
"Absolutely failed five-year period"?
This reform of the taxation of non-road diesel should bring in 870 million euros to the State. On the side of the Ministry of Ecological Transition, it is ensured that this postponement of the rise in prices does not in any way affect the ecological ambitions of the Minister, Barbara Pompili. The think tank of the Nicolas Hulot Foundation believes for its part that this decision comes "to end an absolutely failed five-year term for taxation on the cost of carbon".