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The municipalities that through the years has excluded green cars from the parking fee has broken the law.
Now the municipalities are instructed to follow the law – while demands for legislative change will come.
– Municipalities of course willing to follow the law. Now that it has become clear that this is not consistent with the law should of course abide by it, says Lars Andersson, traffic engineer responsible for parking issues at the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SKL), to TT.
Highest Administrative Court has now ruled that the exemption from parking fees as Region Gotland introduced in 2011 broke the law and should be repealed.
Green cars are not mentioned
As early as 2006 the Gotland exemption. But when the decision in 2011 was renewing appealed a private citizen on the grounds that the exemption is contrary to the Act on the right of the municipality to charge a fee for certain leases of public place (KAL).
Administrative Court and the Administrative Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal, but The Supreme Administrative Court gives man the right. The Supreme Administrative Court points out that the text in the KAL explicitly says that vehicles belonging to the disabled may be exempted but nothing is mentioned about green cars.
“A new law”
Ahlman says he will now send out a notice of the Supreme Administrative Court decision to all 290 municipalities in the country.
Martin Prieto Beaulieu, a spokesperson for the Green Motorists, says that 30 municipalities had some form of parking concessions for green cars in 2012, but they have become less .
He also said that many motorists see the benefits as sole reason for switching to cleaner alternatives, and that it is important to ask about the Swedish fleet.
– why do we that municipalities should have the right to decide on local benefits. This needs to be regulated in a new law, he said to TT.
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