The General Assembly of the Capital has decided on the smog alert plan of Budapest for years. The last amendment, in May 2019, also stipulates that the regulation should be reviewed every three years, and now is the time to do so.
The panel also made a proposal (which can be downloaded here) on how to amend the plan. It reads that
vehicles with a EURO 3 petrol engine would also be banned from smuggling.
Vehicles powered by such an engine shall be marked with the number 6 in box V.9 of the registration certificate. In its detailed explanation, it was written that a restriction could be imposed in this category due to the reduction in the proportion of previously restricted vehicles.
“As a result of the last steps from 1 October 2019, when the modification was reduced from 52% at the time of December 2018 to 41%, the next most polluting environmental class, EURO 3 petrol, is justified. corresponding to code 6 in box V.9 of the registration certificate – a debt subject to a general restriction, ie, as an exception, a de facto repeal. ‘
As a result of the measure, the capped rate will rise again to 51 percent
– in the detailed explanatory memorandum to the proposal. It has recently been suggested that smog alarms could be ordered in Budapest due to high air pollution, as well as restrictions on road traffic.
A gigabyte loan of $ 32.4 billion has been received and will be needed as early as this year
The general assembly may decide on a number of other issues on Wednesday, not least because the summer break is coming in July and there will be no meeting at all. Among other things, they can decide to try to take out a loan of HUF 32.4 billion. Previously, the deputy mayor general he said to hvg.hu that
they are already counting on this amount in this year’s budget because I can’t pay the costs otherwise.
The downloadable presentation here it was written that this is a development loan, which is needed for the 2022 capital programs, because the support from the European Union budget, the central budget and the loan from the European Investment Bank are not enough.
An application for borrowing was launched in February this year, to which eight different banks were invited. Some of these were finally agreed with the banks:
- OTP with 11.4 billion,
- K&H and Czechoslovak Commercial Bank Slovakia’s share of 5.5 billion per capita,
- Erste and UniCredit lend HUF 5 billion to the local government.
The term of the loan would be twenty years, and the funds available for the period would last until the end of March 2026 as proposed.
On Wednesday, the General Assembly may decide on minor changes in the field of homelessness strategy, increase the fees for care homes in the capital, increase the price of public catering in the capital’s institutions, renovate Budakeszi út and restructure the parking system.