Environmental fee from 8% to 15% (depending on the category of building permit) will be paid from now on by the owners real estate In order to continue to benefit from his bonuses New building regulation (NOK), which will be calculated on the value of the additional construction to maintain law incentives, according to information confirming circles of the Ministry of Energy and the Environment.
This new intervention specializes in a draft Presidential Decree formed by the Ministry of Environment and Energy. This applies exclusively to building permits, which have been annulled by a court ruling. It also concerns the building permits that are affected in the courts and will pay 8% of the value of additional square meters. For those who have requested to join the financial tools of the Recovery Fund and the NSRF will be charged 15%respectively. Both accusations, after the owner pays the environmental fee, will keep the knock bonuses.
The collection will be deposited in the Deposits and Loans Fund. They will even be used for the development of green areas in neighborhoods. The real estate zone for the calculation of the environmental fee is calculated in force on December 11, 2024, according to the same information.
At the same time, the draft Presidential Decree (ed. It is a continuation of the amendment passed 15 days ago in Parliament in a bill by the Ministry of Justice) the concept of work and evidence for its documentation is first clarified in the regulatory framework.
The Energy and the Environment is expanding the perimeter of the beneficiaries who can be rid of the prohibitions of the Council of State. This means that they will be able to build on the basis of licenses issued without having to burden additional costs.
The arrangement
More specifically, the Presidential Decree clearly identifies what is “starting building work”, gives legal basis to owners, engineers and contractors to defend timely building activities, defining as a presumption of tasks in the following cases:
1. Start with excavations or concrete
In excavations or in the case of additions, concrete is documented as starting work. In this case, the timing of the work is made by notifying the start to any public authority, the submission of a detailed periodic statement by the employer to EFKA with aerial photographs and with conventions with a certain date relating to the start of building work or at a later stage.
2. Demolition within semester
The demolition of pre -existing buildings on the same plot also constitutes a starting presumption, provided that it is not earlier than six months since December 11, 2024, which sets as a starting point for the legitimacy of the CoE’s licenses.
3. Archaeological work
It is also recognized as the commencement of work by the competent archaeological service, provided that it was carried out until December 11, 2024 and is linked to an existing building permit.
The environmental equivalent
The Ministry of Environment and Energy enables buildings for which there is an annulment judicial decision or pending appeals to them by establishing the concept of environmental equivalent as a compensation in the use of knockout bonuses.
It is foreseen to prepare a special plan for an environmental equivalent of city upgrading (ESPIAP) by Municipal Unit or by Municipality in the case of the two metropolitan centers of Athens and Thessaloniki by the RIS with the funding of the Green Fund or by sponsoring the study.
The owners or contractor of the building will have to deposit to the Municipality (through the Deposits and Loans Fund) the price set by the arrangement so that this money is used for “green interventions” that will be directed by ESPIA.
These interventions will be in favor of public space and quality of life and will be applied when an area is permitted in an area more construction through NOK incentives to complete building activities at various stages of appeals, as well as properties integrated into the RRF or the NSRF.
Among other things, it is a priority in acquiring the public real estate for the creation of public spaces, the redevelopment or design of urban green and infrastructure (including underground parking), as well as the demolition of arbitrary or dangerous buildings, as well as streams. In addition, measures are enriched with the market and restoration of preserved buildings and monuments by the Municipalities, as well as with the support of actions by the European Mission of 100 Climate Neutral Cities.
According to the recently voted amendment to NOK, the possibility of continuing the building permits in the two above categories (with appeals and integration into financial tools) will be provided either the building body of the building or in cases where it has not been completed (for example, if the construction has only reached the basement level).
In such cases, the Central Council of Urban Planning and Challenges (KESYPTA) and the Central Council of Architecture (KESA) is required to determine the need to continue the implementation of a building permit on the basis of technical, financial and legal criteria.
However, the enforcement of the environmental fee is not an economic approach to owners as it burdens the building at extra cost, of course giving legality in return. Regardless of the course of the appeals that may be opened (appeals have already been submitted to the European Court of Justice and new ones are expected from construction companies), it is estimated that this costs will be passed on to customers (if they are construction companies), making real estate buying and selling more expensive.