“It is hard to tell. The talks over highway taxation are theoretical for the moment. For a highway to be taxed, it needs to have, first of all, a continuous corridor (…).Nadlac – Sibiu highway is constructed with EU funds, so that we have to see whether there are conditions for taxation,” Sova stated.
Narcis Neaga, general manager of Romania’s roads authority CNADNR said late May that Romanian authorities might introduce a highway tax on Bucharest-Pitesti (A1) and Bucharest -Constanta (A2) in 2015, at the beginning of the rehabilitation works, or in 2016, after their completion.
Neaga added that, in his opinion, there is no highway in Romanian that can be financed exclusively from taxes at the moment, given the high traffic values.
Currently, Romania charges no highway taxes.
CNADNR has subsequently denied media information according to which authorities might introduce a highway tax on Bucharest-Pitesti (A1) and Bucharest -Constanta (A2) in 2015, saying that Neaga’s statements were in fact general explanations on the concession of a highway.
In February 2013, foreign companies Strabag, Vinci, Aktor and Astaldi and local companies Tehnostrade, Spedition UMB and Euro Construct Trading’98 , filed bids for a public works contract on designing, construction, financing, operating and maintenance of south section of Bucharest beltway and operation and maintenance of Bucharest-Pitesti and Bucharest –Constanta highways.