ANITA, to confirm in the EU the limitations to the cabotage and to harmonize the market conditions



The Italian transport goes protected from any form of treacherous competition and the liberalization of the cabotage cannot prescind from an European harmonization of the operating costs of the enterprises. It has emphasized the Italian ANITA, the national association of the enterprises of road haulage of Confindustria, in the course of the organized public audition from the EU commission to the Transports, held last week to Brussels, in order to estimate the position of the European associations on the perspectives of an ulterior liberalization of the street cabotage with the modification of the current communitarian regulations.

ANITA, only Italian organization to have participated to the audition, has evidenced the results negatives caused from the liberalization of the cabotage in Italy, with the opening to Slovenia in 2004 and successively to the other communitarian new Countries, between which last Rumania and Bulgaria this year.

The street cabotage, transport carried out in a Country of residence of the conveyor - it has explained the association - has not become by now a used solution a lot in Italy from the foreign carriers that can practice highly competitive prices and the liberalization of the intra-communitarian transports in a diversified picture of fiscal regime and operating costs in the several Member States has created situations of real dumping goods in foreign market between operators.

The differences of wage, fiscal nature, of exercise, in fact - it has specified ANITA - are such to place the conveyors of the communitarian new Countries in by far more favorable conditions regarding ours: only the Italian leading cost of, for example, is advanced of the 132% respect to a Romanian driver, of 114.6% to that of a Polish driver, of 82% respect to a Hungarian and of 40.3% respect to a Slovene.

The liberalization of the cabotage, as in any other field - it has found the Italian association - cannot prescind from harmonized norms and binding, otherwise the bases for a treacherous and distorted competition would be created.

The ANITA proposal is therefore that to maintain to the current norm of contingentamento of the street cabotage (regulations 1071/2009), that the drainage of the goods in international traffic inside previews of the Country of cabotage a maximum of three transports in seven days beginning from, at least until when is not harmonized the conditions of market in the various Countries of the European Union.