Restaurants, commerce and services will now pay for the waste they make and not the amount indexed to the water bill.
The measure will go ahead as early as 2025: the restaurants, commerce, and services will start paying only for the waste they produce instead of an amount indexed to the water bill. For families, this measure will only arrive five years later, in 2030.
The news is reported by Jornal de Notícias, which says that tariffs will now be calculated on the amount of waste collected. In practice, tariffs will now be calculated on the amount of waste collected, measured in units of weight or estimated by the volume of containers, applying the user-pays principle.
On the table is a decree-law published in Diário da República, which stipulates that“as of January 1, 2025, tariffs for the commerce, services and restaurants sector should no longer be indexed to water consumption”. As far as families are concerned, this change won’t happen until 2030.
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