On May 12th the platform opens for subsidy power For businesses, the Minister of Environment and Energy said, Stavros Papastavrouspeaking today (4.5.2025) to ANT1.
“Our main priority is always the fight against accuracy and every initiative begins with this goal. However, there is no measure to achieve this, but coordination and combination of measures is required, “Mr Papastavrou said on the power subsidy.
The Minister commented on the decision of the Council of State (CoE), which canceled the process of demarcation of settlements that have been made by the prefects in the last 30 years, judging it non -scientifically documented, the state with the new Presidential Decree comes to define themselves, risk of seeing their possessions being challenged in possible appeals.
“The new Presidential Decree is scientifically reflecting the procedures for the demarcation of the settlements and to secure the properties of the citizens, who until recently were under insecurity. I recall that since 2017 in Rethymnon and since 2019 in Pelion there was planning stagnation and people there saw their properties depreciation, ”said Papastavrou.
Referring to the 220 new local urban planning plans implemented in our country, he stressed that “they are not just a reform, but a real urban revolution.”
Another parameter of the new Presidential Decree noted by the Minister of Environment and Energy has to do with strengthening the return trend in the Region, as those who are now interested in purchases of plots in such areas will be able to do so safely, without the risk of questioning their property.
Concerning the issue of marine spatial planning, in the international hydrocarbon exploration competition in maritime areas of our country, but also in the interest of American Chevron, the Minister of Environment and Energy stressed that these significant developments were directly linked.
“The state must claim every possibility that our country has. And that’s what we do, because we owe it to our children and to future generations, “he said. Given the timetable of the competition, Mr Papastavrou said that the goal is to be validated by the end of December of December this year, so that seismic investigations by the contractor can begin in 2026.