In the new fuel bill which is being studied by the government there will be more incentives for green distributors, but also the farewell to one of the tools that the executive launched last year: the cartel with the average regional price of petrol, diesel and not only. In its place, a QR Code will be installed in the vending machines.
No more sign with the average price at petrol and diesel stations, that will be replaced by a QR code; and then new funding for those pumps that are equipped to supply green fuels, or to open a distributor where there is a decommissioned plant. The Meloni government is developing a new bill, to be approved by the Council of Ministers in the coming weeks, and the Minister of Business and Made in Italy Adolfo Urso met with representatives of the sector to present the guidelines of the new law.
As mentioned, it will be a bill, so the text will then go to Parliament to be actually approved: the changes, therefore, will not come into force soon. What is known, however, is that some of these innovations will be very visible to customers. For example, the sign with the average regional price to be displayed at the distributor – launched by the Meloni government itself at the beginning of last year, during the high fuel prices, and then launched in the summer – will be put aside. In its place there will be a QR code which, if scanned with a smartphone, will refer to the average price in question. Furthermore, among the information displayed at the pump there will no longer be the difference between the served and self-service prices.
Minister Urso then explained, in the meeting with the trade associations together with the Undersecretary for Business Massimo Bitonci and the Undersecretary for the Environment Claudio Barbaro, what the other interventions will be. Some aspects are rather technical: they concern the authorizations for the fuel distribution activity and the procurement contracts for the management of the plants, which must comply with minimum requirements. From 2025, the new authorizations will go to those who distribute at least one fuel that is not a fossil fuel, for example by placing charging stations for electric cars.
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Still on the subject of green energy, there will be economic incentives for those who want to transform the plants by inserting more ecological fuels: the State will cover 50% of the costs of the works, up to a maximum of 60 thousand euros. Furthermore, bureaucratic concessions will be provided for those who want to build or renovate where there is a decommissioned plant. Minister Urso, in a note, said that the discussion with representatives of the sector to arrive at this bill began “at the beginning of last year”, and that the law “will allow the qualification of sales points, the regulation of their negotiation with oil and gas companies accompany the conversion towards electric“.
The first reaction from the fuel sector was positive: the president of Unem (an association of companies that process and distribute oil and other energy products) Gianni Murano spoke of a project “shareable in substance, although it must be seen in detail”. Even the managers’ unions, Faib Confesercenti, Fegica and Figisc Confcommercio, in a shared note made it known that more information is needed to give a complete judgement: “Our organizations will monitor with great attention because a measure awaited for decades for the reorganization of the sector , does not in fact turn into a gift to the usual potentates with very large economic interests”.
