The European Commission announced on Tuesday that it has decided to authorise a local real-estate tax exemption to benefit the development of seaports in Poland.
The exemption, to be granted to all Polish port management entities, is worth an estimated PLZ 1.98 million (EUR520,000).
The benefit of the measure will be ring-fenced, and can only be used by the beneficiary port management entities for their non-commercial activities (the construction, extension, maintenance and upgrading of infrastructure ensuring access to the port and publicly accessible port infrastructure).
The three largest beneficiaries will be the Port Authorities of the Port of Gdansk, the Port of Gdynia and the Port of Szczecin-Swinoujscie, although a number of smaller ports in Poland will also benefit.
After examining the financing measures, the Commission has concluded that the public financing made available for these non-commercially exploitable parts of Polish sea-ports does not constitute State aid.
The EC confirmed this week that:
"These activities are not liable to distort competition between Member
States but are rather public tasks in the general interest benefiting the Union
as a whole. Therefore, their financing does not fall within the ambit of the
State aid rules."
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