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The Tuscany assembly has approved of the text of law for the institution of the Regional Harbour Authority
It will manage the ports of Viareggio, Isola del Giglio, Santo Stefano Port and Marina of Field
May 17, 2012
Tuesday the regional council of the Tuscany has approved of to majority the text of law for the institution of the Regional Harbour Authority for the ports of call of Viareggio, Isola del Giglio, Santo Stefano Port and Marina of Field to Elba. Moreover the Tuscany assembly has approved of to majority also a resolution connected that it engages the regional committee "to undertake political-institutional initiatives useful to the start of the procedures of redefinition of the borders of the harbour area of Viareggio" and "to attribute, within a year from the performance of state property federalism, the assets of the harbour Federal property and to redefine the borders of the areas subject to the Authority, being excluded those not specific pertinence".
"The ports of Viareggio, Isola del Giglio, Navy of Field and Santo Stefano Port - the regional city council member to Infrastructures has commented, Luca Ceccobao - have their agency finally manager. The new Harbour Authority will be able to have an only vision of their requirements, will be able to manage with more efficiency the financings and to program in way faster and aimed the necessary participations. All this in order to value our regional ports and to return them more and more important within a national and European dimension, above all if we think to the fields of the nautical one".
"Draft - it has added Ceccobao - of an agency of programming and management of the harbour areas that will not represent a cost in more, but will be a concrete instrument of development. A strategic vision of entirety is necessary in order to allow a fast potenziamento of the regional ports of the Tuscany. Task to Viareggio, a pole of excellence thanks to the nautical one of luxury, where the new Authority will have to value the port in order to create useful infrastructures to the development of the field, but also to the field of the peach or the nautical one from diporto".
"Not there will be - the city council member has restated - additional costs respect to hour. The general secretary, to prescind from who he will play that role, she will be a professional with experience of high level and will be paid salary to how much any regional managing other. The staff assigned to the Authority will be all regional staff or of the local authorities". Ceccobao has specified that in terms of budget, in fact, the new Harbour Authority will exactly cost to the Region the same figure that today comes destined to the Municipalities for the management of the four ports that compose it.
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