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New European Consumers anticipate exposing on the attempt of concentration between Ustica Lines and Siremar
The new group would stop 90% of the market of the marine transport fleeting in the Sicily Region and would make use contributions publics for beyond 100 million euros
April 1, 2011
The association New European Consumers has introduced exposed to the Guarantor Authority for competition and a Market with respect to the procedure of cession of the Siremar complaining an attempt of concentration between the enterprises Ustica Lines and Siremar.
Announced the national president of the association, Nunzio Vasta, explaining that in the exposed one he evidences themselves that "the society Ustica Lines p.a stops in the Sicily Region a market share pairs to 40% and makes use of regional contributions in order to assure the so-called "social drafts" for about 50 million euros. The Siremar vice versa stops in the Sicily Region a market share pairs to 50% and makes use of state contributions for about 56 million euros, waves to assure the so-called "social drafts"".
In the hypothesis in which the group of Vittorio Morace, president of Ustica Lines, had to turn out highest bidder of the Siremar - he has specified Immense - "the same one would stop 90% of the market shares of the marine transport fleeting in the Sicily Region and would make use of beyond 100 million euros on a yearly basis in order assuring the so-called "social drafts"".
"It is not who does not see that in such hypothesis - she has emphasized the president of New European Consumers - she would come evidently violated the disposed one of which to art. the 3 of law 287/1990 attended that she would come to define itself a clear hypothesis of concentration between enterprises with an obvious abuse of dominant position in "an important" market which it is that of the Sicily Region".
Immense it has concluded wishing that "to protection of the interests of the consumers every dangerous form of concentration and assured the competition to protection of a control of the prices and a greater efficiency of the services is avoided" and wondering "as could be distributed in favour of an only group so a conspicuous sum pairs to beyond 100 million euros from E region State without there is the obligation to guarantee the competition".
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The association New European Consumers has introduced exposed to the Guarantor Authority for competition and a Market with respect to the procedure of cession of the Siremar complaining an attempt of concentration between the enterprises Ustica Lines and Siremar.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
