NHO complain state to ESA – NRK

– It can not vera true that state-sponsored discounts for children, seniors and military trains, whereas the bus companies the tax return must cover the loss they have on discounted tickets. The victory managing director Jon Stordrange NHO Transport.

Manage Ande Director Jon Stordrange NHO Transport.

Photo: Trond Stenersen / NRK

No, he is tired of unequal treatment and Sakan get trapped in Brussels after Samfedselsdepartementet here at home do not give NHO medhald.

– This distorts competition

Getting discount on NSB train, the state scoring. You get off the bus, the bus company self that takes the economic brunt of that you do not pay full price. This distorts competition, believes NHO Transport that on behalf of bus operating companies plowed the case before the Ministry of Transport last autumn.

Stordrange will not talfesta how much these discounts kosta bus operating companies, but they notices it on bottom line, victory he said.

low margins for express buses

– Over time this is a very expensive solution for the express company which has quite low margins, and constantly put down routes because they do not receive inntening good enough to continue at the top that the offers they have.

– we have raised this issue constantly, but no, we have good evidence that the current regulations are in line with public transport regulation as the EU have arrived with, said Stordrange NHO Transport NRK August då dei took the matter up with the Ministry.

But the appeal to the Ministry led not forward, and NHO makes no it dei the forecast; complain Norway before the EFTA his Surveillance Authority.

Indicates Denmark

Jon Stordrange refers to their neighbors in the south where the government subsidizes Typha.

– In Denmark dei got a scheme in which the express company receives reimbursement from the state for the social discount they offer dei journey, on a par with togsubsidiene. This equal treatment is in line with the current EU legislation, he says, with dash believe that they win up when ESA handles the case.

Academic Section in the Ministry of Transport has Vore in contact with NHO Transport.

– Dei informs that appeal to the ESA not yet been sent. It is difficult to comment on a complaint not filed ESA. When the appeal is sent from NHO Transport, the Ministry of Transport wait for ESA’s treatment, says Edvard Andersen, Senior Adviser in Communication Unit in the Ministry.