Rai, the League: the goal is to remove the license fee from the bills

«The League is committed to the Rai license fee, with the aim of cutting it. The first step will be to remove it from the bills ». This was reported by sources in the League.

Already a few days ago the Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti, speaking at an electoral event of the League in Rome, had underlined that he had taken on the commitment and responsibility for this change. «An enormous responsibility – he said – and I took a lot of criticism clearly from everyone, because we arrived and it remained on the bill, otherwise everything would be skipped, but it becomes clear that the Rai license fee will have to come out of the bill and therefore next year we’ll have to find another tool.’

Course change

In fact, an afterthought compared to what was said just before Christmas when the minister himself had stated that the Rai license fee should remain in the electricity bill. “The rumors of an exclusion of the Rai license fee from the electricity bill are not founded, in light of the long preliminary work in progress”, read in fact a note from the Mef.

«The Pnrr milestone finds its foundation in the need to protect competition in the electricity market and is based on the Agcm proposals, which had not detected any critical issues regarding the payment of the Rai license fee from the point of view of market competition of energy, provided that the payment was transparent for the end users. Requirement that is satisfied”.

Since when is the bill paid and how much does it cost

The amount for television users connected to the public service has been included in the bill since July 2016, divided into installments in the electricity bill. It is charged to all customers with resident domestic electricity users.

The amount to be paid is 90 euros, divided into ten installments in the electricity bills from January to October and the charge varies according to the billing frequency of the electricity bill.

The antitrust had given the opposite opinion

On the new system there have always been conflicting opinions. The Antitrust had also dealt with it in 2015, before the system became the rule and well before the European Union raised a problem not only linked to competition in the strict sense, but also to the energy market and which concerned the fact that it is not possible to compulsorily ask energy suppliers to collect charges unrelated to their market sector, nor consumers to pay in the same bill a cost linked to a different service.