Al via the procedure of environmental appraisal of the new harbour town development plan of Porto Torres



Today the Harbour Authority of the Sardinia North has published the warning for the activation of the procedure of environmental appraisal (VAS) of the new harbour town development plan of the port of Porto Torres, whose lines guide they are approved of 30th May in town council to Porto Torres and on 2 July in Harbour Committee to Olbia.

The Harbour Authority has emphasized that draft of an administrative procedure that will give carried out to the harbour system of the north the west of the Sardinia and has remembered that draft of a fundamental step of europeistica derivation (is sanctioned from European directive 2001/42/CE on June 27, 2001) that, according to I decree legislative 152 of 2006 and next modifications and integrations, makes official all the preparatory phase of the plans, putting in front a real esteem and analysis of the eventual produced environmental effects in the long period to the application of the indications inserted in the document that the future of the port of call will design and to verify, therefore, if they turn out sustainable.

The harbour agency has remembered moreover that the phases previewed from the norm, that they will mark the distance of I confront of the Harbour Authority, which supported from the Ambient society Italy Srl, with the appointed agencies, will be the elaboration of the Environmental Relationship, inside of which they are characterized, described and estimated the meaningful effects that the performance of the plan could have on the atmosphere (phase that will be preceded by the preliminary consultation - Scoping - with the involvement of the competent subjects in environmental matters); the publication of the rough draft of the plan with the environmental relationship and the not technical synthesis that the phase of public consultation will open, with encounters opened to the professionals and the simple citizens; the decision by the appointed organ to the approval of the town development plan, in such case the Region, than will be expressed after to have viewed all the observations reached in the phase of publication; the monitoring, with which the control on the meaningful environmental impacts is assured deriving from the performance of the plan and the verification of the attainment of the fixed objectives of sustainability, so to characterize the opportune corrective measures.

"With today - it explains has found the president of the Harbour Authority, Paolo Piro - we enter in the alive one of the programming of the future of the port of call of Porto Torres. It is a sure not short distance, that it will see I confront more levels and on more fields with all the appointed agencies. That of Porto Torres is an ambitious town development plan, that it will redesign the port of call for next the 30 years, having opened it to new markets of the logistics, the cruises and the nautical one from diporto. I throw again necessary around which, I hope, also through VAS, a sharing of attempts and the maximum collaboration and engagement of all is found. It is a moment difficult for the economy that it imposes us to work alacremente, so as to avoid the loss of all those important opportunities that the markets offer to us".