It is unconstitutional to equate large families with ‘vulnerable households’ in the current

By Panagiotis Stathis

Victory of large families in the Council of State for electricity tariffs as the ministerial decision of 2018 was deemed unconstitutional, by which the special electricity tariff for households of large families was abolished and these families joined the uniform regulation of discounts on electricity tariffs. households “.

By decision of the Plenary Session of the Council of State (No. 430/2022) it was ruled that from the requirements of Article 21 of the Constitution derives the “elementary prohibition rule, binding on the common legislator, according to which it is not constitutionally tolerated the reduction or degradation of the special care provided to large families without a valid reason “.

For this reason, according to the State advisers, it is not permissible to equate the special, according to the Constitution, protection of large families with the provision of the state for the economically or socially vulnerable groups of the population.

The State Councilors considered that the ministerial decision in question “directly contradicts the provisions of paragraphs 2 and 5 of Article 21 of the Constitution, in so far as it abolishes the special household tariff for large families, equating it with the provisions of the Constitution, special protection of large families in the context of the demographic policy pursued with the other cases of exercising social policy, distinguished according to this article of the Constitution, without a valid reason “.

Source: Capital

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