Green light definitive of the Senate to the Convention of the Alps without the protocol you transport



Yesterday the Senate, with 240 favorable ballots, a contrary and four abstainers, has given the go-ahead free definitive to the bill 1474-B, of "Ratifies and execution of Protocolli of performance of the international Convention for the protection of the Alps, with annexed, made to Salisburgo on November 7, 1991" (approved of from the Senate and modified from the Chamber).

"The Convention - the reporter Francesco Maria Amoruso has remembered - stretches in the long term to the safeguard of the natural ecosystem of the Alps, within a sustainable development, as well as to the protection of the economic interests of the populations residents, establishing the principles which the cooperation between the adherent Countries in the field of the territorial planning will have to be inspired, of the defense of the ground and the protection of the landscape, tourism, the energy and the refusals". Senator Amoruso has remembered moreover that this ratifies "already has been object of examination by the Parliament in the two passed legislatures, without moreover never to arrive to definitive conclusion for strong dissents that had been recorded about the opportunity to authorize or less it ratifies it of the protocol on the transports".

The proposed and approved of original text from the Senate previewed ratifies it of all the implementing protocols, included that in the within of the transports there undersigned to Lucerne in 2000. In the examination in second reading by the Chamber of Deputies, such protocol instead is excluded. Therefore the bill is introduced - it has specified Amoruso - n. 3086, already under examination near the Commission Foreign policies, that it brings exactly "Ratifies and execution of Protocollo of performance of the Convention for the protection of the Alps of 1991 in the within of the transports, fact to Lucerne on October 31, 2000". "This extract - it has declared in Amoruso classroom - will allow today therefore (yesterday, ndr) the approval of the bill under investigation, that it ratifies the others nine protocol".

Satisfaction for the extract of the protocol you transport is expressed by the former undersecretary to the Transports, Bartolomeo, Giachino: "the protocol you transport, being inspired to the principle of the control of the alpine traffic, without to still have realized tunnel railway between which the Tav - it has explained - our Country would penalize economically only".

Giachino has emphasized as this decision is a lot important for the field transports, considered that about 50% of the exports and the imports (for a total of 157 million tons of goods) passes through the passes and it tunnel highway. "Italy, as Conte Cavour had with justice asserted - he has found - is the only Country that in order to go in Europe must cross the Alps, with an additional cost for our goods of about 1,5 billion euros. Obviously - it has evidenced Giachino - they must be got ahead all the policies that safeguard the atmosphere and the alpine ecosystem very as we have made in recent years stimulating, with 83 million euros, the substitution of old heavy means with Euros 5".