Regarding the published action at law of the Municipality of Marathon against EYDAP for the allegedly non-payment of legally provided rights to the Municipality for water intake from Lake Marathon, the Company has stated the following:
This action against the Company by the Municipality of Marathon is completely unfounded in law and substance.
The largest debtor of EYDAP (the Municipality owes € 14,000,000, debt which corresponds to the value of treated water supplied by EYDAP to enhance the local network of the Municipality of Marathon, which is distributed to the residents, and for which the Municipality is collecting the corresponding water charge without attributing it to EYDAP) believed that by compiling an unfounded in law and substance claim, can avoid the payment of the fees due. The Municipality pretends to ignore what is the ownership of the Marathon dam, which following the Article 4 of Law 2744/1999 was conveyed to the Public Entity under the name "EYDAP Company Assets" and has been transferred to Marathon Land Registry in Volume 263 and serial number 174. Equally, the Municipality ignores that under Article 2 of the Law 2744/99, has been granted to our Company and its area of service, in which falls the Municipality of Marathon, by virtue of P.D.39/99, the exclusive right for the period of twenty years for pumping, collection, desalination, storage, transportation, processing, distribution and management of water of all kinds of use.
In any case, the provisions cited by the Municipality of Marathon for the "imposition" of the requested rights, concern, as mentioned above, drinking water, not raw water, and by no means do not relate to the water reservoir of Marathon, which as also mentioned above, EYDAP has the exclusive right to manage.