Chaos in the Rai rate and the possible exclusion of the light bill. The unions, in a joint note, asked the Minister of Economy and Finance, Giancarlo Giorgetti, for an “authoritarian intervention” in the question of the canon of state television. “As you will surely know, the determination of the previous Executive, following a specific resolution by Parliament, indicated the charging of the fee on the electricity bill among the improper charges whose permanence will no longer be allowed from January 1, 2023. This decision, also given the temporal proximity to the deadline of December 31, 2022, in addition to causing a climate of deep uncertainty regarding the ways of financing the Public Service of Radio and Television, runs the risk of having a disruptive impact on the future of the company itself. Rai”, the message of Sl-Cgil, Fistel-Cisl, Uilcom-Uil, Ugl-Fnc, Snater, Libersind-Confsal, Adrai and Usigrai.
“Depriving the largest cultural company in the country of the certainty of funding, in addition to the obvious repercussions in terms of employment that could result, would have direct effects on the same Ministry led by you, as a shareholder in Rai Spa”, continue the unions. «For this reason, knowing your sensitivity in this regard, we ask you for an urgent meeting, with the hope of being able to personally illustrate the validity of our concerns, trusting in your resolutive intervention that can guarantee financial sustainability to the Public Radio and Television Service . In the same way, assuming similar and autonomous initiatives of the top management on these delicate issues, we take the opportunity to cordially greet you», concludes the note.
Immediately came a clarification from the Mef, a ministry led by Giorgetti: «The rumors of an exclusion of the Rai fee from the electricity bill are not, in light of the long preliminary work in progress, founded. The PNRR framework is based on the need to protect competition in the electricity market and is based on the proposals of AGCOM, which did not find critical issues regarding the payment of the RAI rate from the point of view of competition in the electricity market. energy, as long as the payment was transparent to end users. Requirement that is satisfied.” In the end, therefore, the RAI fee will continue to be paid within the electricity bill.
Source: IL Tempo
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