The new regulation for loading and unloading goods in the municipality of Thessaloniki will solve more problems than these, estimates the management of the Thessaloniki Chamber of Professional Commerce (EETH), which in its announcement expresses its strong dissatisfaction with the approval of the new regulation by the Thessaloniki Municipal Council, which it estimates will be effectively cancelled. At the same time, it states that the proposals and comments it sent were completely ignored.
“Preliminary consultations”
“EETH considers any consultation that preceded it completely pretentious, since none of the proposals of the market bodies were adopted, while characterizing as derogatory the attitude of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, which acted without taking into account the positions of the largest body representing the entrepreneurship of freelancers and small and medium-sized companies in Thessaloniki” is highlighted in the announcement, with which EETH calls on the administration of the municipality, if the above forecast is confirmed, to consider the possibility of renegotiating the loading and unloading schedule and approving the proposals presented by the Council.
Next to, EETH calls on Mayor of Thessaloniki Stelios Angeloudis “to return to his original commitment to close cooperation of the municipality with the chambers, in matters related to the market, entrepreneurship and the city’s self-employed.”
Serious objections on the effectiveness of the decision on the loading and unloading times of shops in the historic center of Thessaloniki, expresses, with its announcement and the Federation of Professionals and Traders of the Municipality of Thessaloniki (OEETH). “The OEETH considers that the new loading and unloading schedule is inefficient, it is impossible to operate and satisfy the needs of the stores, it will create more problems for the professionals and traders of the city and their suppliers and by extension for the good general functioning of the market”, it emphasizes -among other things- in the respective announcement.
It should be noted that “in this case, the administration of the municipality of Thessaloniki did not adopt the in-depth opinion of the majority of professionals and traders regarding the optimal regulation of opening hours, unilaterally extending the measure to all municipal communities and not just to the historic centre, as initially foreseen in the invitation to consult the bodies”.