The Plenum of the House of Representatives voted on Thursday in favour of the abolition of the existing Larnaca Marina Regulation (Payable Rights) Regulations.
Taking the floor, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Energy, Trade, Industry and Tourism, DISY MP Kyriakos Hatzigiannis, said that the management status of the marina has changed to a private investor[/B] and thus the regulations under which the Deputy Ministry of Tourism had the responsibility[/B] to determine the fees have been abolished[/B].[/B] Therefore now everything is left to the marina's investor manager, he said, noting that some minor problems that needed further consultation with some stakeholders as part of a good dialogue had been solved.
40 MPs out of 41 present voted in favour of the regulations.
According to the Commission's Report, the purpose of the proposed regulations, which are made under Articles 4 and 5 of the Marina Regulation Law, is to repeal the existing Larnaca Marina Regulation (Payable Rights) Regulations, which regulate the payment of fees for the use of the marina and its facilities and for goods, things, services or facilities provided or made available within it.
In particular, based on the information submitted before the Committee by the government officials, the repeal of the existing regulations is deemed necessary, because as of 1 April 2022 the management and operation of Larnaca Marina was entrusted to a private investor (Kition Ocean Holdings), for the integrated development of the port and the marina and therefore the Ministry of Tourism ceased to act as the manager of Larnaca Marina and to have the power to implement the above regulations.
Agenda items 1 (The Prohibition of Filling Vacancies in the Public and Wider Public Sector (Special Provisions) (Amendment) Law of 2022), 2 (The Regulation of the Establishment and Operation of Hotels and Tourist Accommodation (Amendment) (No. 2) Law of 2022), 3 (The Regulation of the Establishment and Operation of Hotels and Tourist Accommodation (General) (Amendment) Regulations of 2022), 5 (The Control of Atmospheric Pollution (Amendment) Act, 2022) and 6 (The Control of Atmospheric Pollution (Limitation of Emissions of Certain Pollutants into the Atmosphere from Medium-Sized Combustion Plants) (Amendment) Regulations, 2022) have been suspended.
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