(AGENPARL) – mar 28 febbraio 2023 Pesca, pubblicato bando da 3 milioni e mezzo per riqualificare i porti e migliorare la sicurezza dei pescatori
Oltre 3 milioni e mezzo di euro per migliorare l’efficienza di porti e borghi marinari, e garantire sicurezza e più servizi ai pescatori siciliani. Il dipartimento regionale della Pesca mediterranea ha appena pubblicato il bando, in attuazione della misura 1.43 “Porti, luoghi di sbarco, sale per la vendita all’asta e ripari di pesca” del Po Feamp 2014/2020, che utilizza le risorse residue del Fondo per gli affari marittimi e la pesca in chiusura a dicembre. L’avviso è rivolto ai Comuni dell’Isola e prevede un contributo massimo di 250 mila euro. L’obiettivo è quello di riqualificare i porti pescherecci e potenziare i luoghi di sbarco e la vendita diretta del pescato attraverso, tra i vari interventi possibili, la realizzazione o il ripristino di segnalamenti marittimi luminosi, ormeggi, ancoraggi, videosorveglianza e illuminazione, ma anche punti acqua e arredo urbano.
I lavori dovranno essere conclusi entro quattro mesi, pena la revoca del finanziamento.
«Un provvedimento importante – commenta l’assessore regionale alla Pesca Luca Sammartino – che va incontro alle esigenze dell’intero settore e in particolare alla piccola pesca costiera, per dare maggiore sicurezza agli operatori e rendere più agevole lo smaltimento dei rifiuti marini, piuttosto che degli oli o delle batterie esauste, in linea con le disposizioni normative nazionali, compresa quelle della “Legge SalvaMare”. Ma interviene anche nella riqualificazione dei nostri splendidi piccoli porticcioli per migliorare la qualità dei servizi e, quindi, la vita di chi vive il mare per lavoro».
Il bando, con tutta la relativa documentazione, è disponibile nel portale web della Regione Siciliana all’indirizzo https://www.regione.sicilia.it/la-regione-informa/feamp-2014-2020-bando-attuazione-misura-143-anno-2023 e sulla [pagina del dipartimento regionale della Pesca mediterranea](https://www.regione.sicilia.it/istituzioni/regione/strutture-regionali/assessorato-agricoltura-sviluppo-rurale-pesca-mediterranea/dipartimento-pesca-mediterranea).
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Testo Allegato:
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PRESS RELEASE No
37
/23

Luxembourg, 28 February 2023

Judgment of the Court in Case C
–
695/20 | Fenix International

Online platforms and VAT collection: the Council did not
exceed the limits
of its implementing power in specifying that the operator of a p
latform,
such as Only Fans, is presumed to be the
supplier of the services provided

Fenix

International (â??Fenixâ??)
, a company registered in the United Kingdom for VAT purposes, operates on the internet
a social media platform known as Only Fans (â??the Only
Fans platformâ??). That platform is offered to â??usersâ?? throughout
the world, who are divided into â??creatorsâ?? and â??fans
â??
.

Fenix provides not only the Only Fans platform but also the

device enabling the collection and distribution of the payments made by fans.

Fenix levies 20% on any sum paid to a
creator to whom it charges the corresponding amount. On the sum which it levies in this way, Fenix applies VAT at a
rate of 20%, which appears on the invoices which it issues.

The UK fax and customs
authority (HMRC)
s
ent Fenix VAT assessments for the VAT due for
2017
and
2020, taking the view that Fenix had to be deemed to be acting in its own name
and c
on
sequently
had to pay
VAT on all of the sum received from a fan and not only on the 20% of that sum

which it levied by way of
remuneration
.

Fenix filed an appeal before a

UK court
. By that appeal,

Fenix essentially challenges the validity of the legal basis for
the tax assessments, namely
a provision
of
an
implementing r
egulation

of the Council of the
European Union
seekin
g to clarify the VAT directive.

The court hearing the case brought by Fenix
referred a question
for a
preliminary ruling to the Court of Justice before the end of the transition period following Brexit, so that

the Court
remains comp
ent to respond to that question.
T
he re
ferring court seeks

the contested
provision
is invalid in so far as the Council
may have
supplemented or amended the VAT Directive, thus exceeding
the implementing powers conferred on it
.

The VAT
Directive

establishes that a taxable person who, in the context of a supply of services, acts as an
intermediary in his or her own name but on behalf of another person, is presumed to be the supplier of those
services
.

Account being taken of the developmen
t of the
VAT system

and in order
to ensure a uniform application in the
European Union thereof, the Council indicated, in the implementing regulation, that
a taxable person taking part in
the supply of electronically supplied services through a telecommuni
as a marketplace for applications, is to be â??presumed to be acting in his own name but on behalf of the provider of
those services
â??.

T
hat presumption can be rebutted where th
at provider is ex
plic
i
tly indicate
d as

being

the supplier by the taxable
person and
where
that is apparent from the contractual agreement
.

In contrast,
a taxable person taking part in that supply is always presumed to be acting in his or her own name but
on behalf of t
he provider of those services and, therefore, is deemed himself or herself to be the supplier of those
terms and conditions of that supply
.

In that regard, the Court states that, w
here a taxable person, who takes part in the supply of a service by electronic
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service, or to charge

for it, or to lay down the general terms and conditions of such a supply, that taxable person
may unilaterally define essential elements relating to the supply, namely the provision of that service and the time
at which it will take place, or the conditio
ns under which the consideration will be payable, or the rules forming the
general framework of that service. In such circumstances, and having regard to the economic and commercial
reality reflected by them,

it is correct

that

the taxable person must be r
egarded as being the supplier of services,
pursuant to the VAT Directive
.

After its examination, the Court holds that,
by adopting the contested provision of the implementing regulation, the
Council merely clarified the VAT Directive, without supplementing

or amending it.
Examination of the question

referr
ed has
therefore
disclosed no factor of such a kind as to affect the valid
ity of the contested provisio
n
of the implementing regulation.

NOTE:

A reference for a preliminary ruling allows the courts and tr
ibunals of the Member States, in disputes which
Union law or the validity of a European Union act. The Court of Justice does not decide the dispu
te itself. It is for the
national court or tribunal to dispose of the case in accordance with the Courtâ??s decision, which is similarly binding on
other national courts or tribunals before which a similar issue is raised.

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not binding on the Court of Justice.

The
full text

and the abstract

of the judgment is published on the CURIA website on the day of delivery.

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