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Protocol of understanding in order to upgrade the intermodal transport of the goods in the Southeastern Sicily
They are involved Sicilian Region, Ministry of Transportation, Harbour Authority of Augusta and Catania and Interporto of Catania
September 11, 2012
The ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports has announced that the understanding protocol is perfected that previews participations finalized to the commercial potenziamento and of the intermodal transport of the goods in the Southeastern Quadrant of the Sicily. The document, that we publish below, engages the ministry, in the within of program PON Nets and Mobility 2007-13, and some territorial agencies of the Sicily which the Region, the Harbour Authorities of Augusta and Catania and the society of management of the interporto of Catania, to finance, to monitor and to verify the important realization infrastructures, harbour and interportuali for the development of the logistics and the commercial exchange towards the Southeastern Sicily.
The ministry has emphasized that "the understanding, supported also from the EU commission, represents a fundamental result towards a undertaken sinergica activity from various productive agencies that concur towards the objective common to develop this geographic area creating system in the actions and the programming of the investments".
"In the protocol, moreover - it has specified the ministry - there is the engagement of the two commercial ports more important of the area, Augusta and Catania, and of the Interporto of Catania, to second proceed a governance unitary and a shared programming in order to return more effective the investments and more rational the commercial development of the Sicilian area".
UNDERSTANDING PROTOCOL
BETWEEN
MINISTRY OF INFRASTRUCTURES AND THE TRANSPORTS
SICILIAN REGION
HARBOUR AUTHORITY Dl AUGUSTA
HARBOUR AUTHORITY OF CATANIA
SOCIETY TO INTERPOSE SICILIANI TO YOU
OBJECT: Participations finalized to the commercial potenziamento and of the intermodal transport of the goods in the Southeastern Quadrant of the Sicily
Rome, 7 agosto2012
Premised
SEEN art. the 15 of the law 7 August 1990 n. 241 and s.m.i that it attributes to Public Administration the faculty to conclude agreements between they for the development in collaboration of activity of common interest.
SEEN art. the 46 of the Bill n. 201 on December 06, 2011 enacted the 214/2011 that, to the aim to promote the infrastructure realization of connection between the ports and harbour areas back, allows with the harbour authorities to constitute logistic systems that take part through actions of understanding and coordination with the regions, the provinces and the municipalities interested let alone with the managers of railway infrastructures;
SEEN National the Strategic Picture for regional politics of development 2007-2013 (from hour in then called QSN) of which to EC Regulation 1083/2006 on the Structural Bottoms, approved of with deliberation CIPE 174/2006 dcl 22/12/06 and successively adopted from the EU commission in date 13/07/2007, which previews national an operating program of performance falling back in the competences of the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports, and mainly National Operating Program (PON) "Nets and Mobility" 2007-2013;
CONSIDERED that choruses Decision of EU commission C (2007) 6318 on December 07, 2007 are approved of the PON, previewed in the within of the QSN for the structural participations in the Italian regions interested by the Objective Convergence;
CONSIDERED that the Sicilian Region is one of the 4 Regions in Objective Convergence, how many former art. 1083/2006 determined second and in agreement with characterized how much from the above-mentioned QSN;
CONSIDERED that the PON previews that the Authority of Management (AdG) is identified in the Ministry of Infrastructures (now Ministry of Infrastructures and the international Transports), Head office for the development of the territory, programming and projects Division II "European and national Programs for the nets and mobility";
SEEN I decree of the AdG 6650 of the 16.06.2009 that characterizes the Augusta Port as beneficiary of the Great Harbour Project "Hub of Augusta";
SEEN Decreto 9957 of the AdG of the 02.11.2011 that characterizes the Sicilian Region as beneficiary of the Participation "Interporto of Catania Polo Intermodale";
SEEN the railway participations, localized in the quadrant south oriental, financed from the PON Nets and Mobility - "Velocizzazione Catania - Syracuse, draft Targia Hut" and "Completion of the doubling of the draft central Catania Catania - Ognina";
SEEN the Conventions which signed between the Authority of Management of the PON Nets and Mobility and the Beneficiaries Harbour Authority of Augusta and RFI;
SEEN the Agreement of Program Picture for marine transport the stipulated in date 05.11.2001 between the Ministry of the Economy and Finances, the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports, the Sicilian Region and the Sicilian Harbour Authorities and next integrating action of the 31.01.2006 for the programming of the resources allotted from Deliberation CIPE n° 35 of 2005;
SEEN the Financial law of the 2007 (L.296 of 2006) that it characterizes the four Augusta as one of Hub harbour Italian of the Mediterranean on which state investments in such sense are activated;
SEEN the Project Territory I unwind 2 INTERMED of November 2011, written up from the Regional Province of Catania on financing of the Ministry of Infrastructures and the transports;
SEEN the Regional Plan of the Transports and Mobility - Slowly director of 2002 of the Sicilian Region;
SEEN the implementing Plan of the Transport of the Goods and the Logistics of the Sicilian Region, approved of from the Regional committee with deliberation n. 24 on February 2, 2004 and adopted with I decree for tourism of the City council member, and Communications and the Transports on February 23, 2004, with which the logistic infrastructures have been individual necessary to develop to intermodal systems of transport, interconnected with the integrated systems national and the plurimodali European corridors;
SEEN the understandings reached in the programmatici encounters near the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transports between the Harbour Authorities of Augusta and Catania, the Sicily Region and the Society To interpose to you Sicilian for the Interporto of Catania, finalized to verify the action of mass to system of the investments and the projects for the commercial development and of the exchange of the goods in the Southeastern Quadrant of the Sicily;
SEEN the Deliberation of the Harbour Committee n. 02/12 of the 08.05.2012 that it gave sent to the President of the Harbour Authority of Augusta to stipulate a protocol of understanding and/or constitution of an Association between the Harbour Authorities of Catania and Augusta, in order to strengthen the sinergica activity between two Sicilian ports;
SEEN the Deliberation of the Harbour Committee n. 80 of the 14.06.2012 that it gave sent to the President of the Harbour Authority of Catania to stipulate a protocol of understanding and/or constitution of an Association between the Harbour Authorities of Catania and Augusta, in order to strengthen the sinergica activity between the two Sicilian ports;
All this premising and considered,
It is convene and it is stipulated how much follows:
ART. 1 - Premised
The premises form integral part of anticipate action and they agree integrally transcribed in anticipates article.
2 ART. - Object of Protocollo
The Parts are engaged to activate and to develop to the initiatives of own competence times to the acceleration in the realization of the participations finalized to the potenziamento of the Southeastern Quadrant of the Sicily.
The parts agree on the necessity to program and to place in being every activity necessary and useful to favor the realization of the works listed in the next Table To that they arrange of the conditions technical-financial institutions for being immediately activated.
TABLE TO
PROJECT
AMOUNT
FONTE of FINANCING
BENEFICIARY EXECUTOR
Hub Harbour of Augusta. Realization of large squares and banchien for the traffic containers
€ 119.500.000
PON Nets and Mobility (83,9 M€) Deep civil servants (L. 166/02), Deep CIPE, Bottoms own
Harbour authority of Augusta
Port of Catania. Realization of commercial dock to service of the traffics ro-ro
€ 100.000.000
PON You transport (9,8 M€); Deep CIPE, Bottoms own
Harbour authority of Catania
Interporto of Catania - ntermodale Polo
€ 40.653.863
PON Nets and Mobility (16 M€) Deep CIPE, LR 20/2003 Deep own
Sicilian region/Society To interpose Siciliani to you
Regarding the participations in Table B, than they immediately do not turn out attivabili for lack of technical-financial requirement, the parts convene on the correspondence of the same ones to the objective to guarantee the potenziamento of the Southeastern Quadrant of the Sicily of which to protocol anticipates. Therefore the parts agree on the necessity to place in being, for how much of respective competence, every activity useful to favor of the performance. The aforesaid programmatico picture could be implemented by means of the insertion of ulterior coherent participations with the recalled purposes of the protocol, advance sharing between the parts underwriters.
TABLE B - programmatico Picture of reference
PROJECT
AMOUNT Estimated Million euro
STATE OF PROJECT
BENEFICIARY EXECUTOR
Port of AUGUSTA
Port of call and railway connection commercial port - shod line CT- SR
13,5
Preliminary matter
AP Augusta
2° lottery large squares
72,00
Definitive with opinions to acquire
3° extract terminal containers
52,00
Definitive with opinions to acquire
Consolidation outer dam and recharges of the mantellata one
12,50
Preliminary matter
Realization of a bathtub of collection black waters to the commercial port and connection to consortile purifier AS
7,0
Study of feasibility
Port of CATANIA
Realization water, fognario and antifire system
6,00
Executive
AP Catania
New realization passage axis of the services
5,00
Definitive
Work central pier rectifies east dock -
12,00
Definitive
Work central pier rectifies dock the west –
10,00
Definitive
Consolidation outer dam and recharges of the mantellata one
58,00
Definitive
Realization and modernization large square pier F. Crispi and of the new Port
2,00
Executive
Interporto of Catania
Directed street connection from the logistic pole to the intermodal pole with the port of call of Catania-Hut with road interconnection to the Axis of the services and the port of Catania
9,2
Definitive with opinions to acquire
Society To interpose Siciliani to you
Road of connection between logistic pole and intermodal pole of the interporto of Catania
14,49
Definitive with opinions to acquire
Connection computer science Platform integrated for the logistics and the intermodalità – Regions Objective “Convergence” - Sicily
3,00
Definitive with opinions to acquire
Society To interpose Siciliani/UIRNET to you
The interested subjects moreover will act in co-ordinate way for the development of the intermodalità also according to the disposed one of cited art. the 46 of the Bill n. 201 on December 06, 2011 enacted 214/2011 to the aim to support the process of territorial development to international level second the communitarian guidelines also for that it regards the nets TRIES.
With the subscription of protocol anticipates, in the picture of the lines of address of the regional policies in matter of mobility and transports finalized to the implementation of the associate-economic development of the Southeastern territory of the Sicilian Region, the actions of the interested subjects will converge, putting to factor common the strengths of each truth, facing and resolving in sinergico way the points of weakness of the same ones. In the context of a system integrated of intermodal logistic services, even though in the within of the autonomy of everyone of the subjects over mentioned in defining the fields, the merceologiche categories and geographic areas on which to head, the strategies common of marketing, finalized will be defined to credit in unitary way to international level the intermodal logistic system (Ports and To interpose) of the Sicily oriental to you, as the gateway towards the main destinations and connections independently from the transit point. To such fine to more traditional actions of commercialization (proud, congressional exhibitions, events, etc.) initiatives of innovative marketings apt will be placed side by side to promote, for every market of reference (geographic, modal or merceologico). more opportune the infrastructural complex and of services is intraportuale or interportuale it.
The corrected appraisal of the socioeconomic system, reference, will afford to influence the choices that will govern the investments thesis to the realization of a logistic system integrated of the ports and to interpose involved you, developing the total competitiveness and reducing the local confrontation.
With protocol anticipates involved subjects (AP Augusta and Catania and Society To interpose to you Sicilian for the Interporto Catania), they are engaged to leek in being actions times to the location of the requirements and of the best practices you anticipate in the various activities, or way such to potentially create homogenous standards and intermodal community system let alone an implementation of standard of homogenous services.
The parts are engaged, moreover, to develop a common communitarian and national planning with the promotion of the coordination of the participation to the notices, in order to increase the net of national and international relations and to increase the possibility to approach finalized sources of financing to the railway-marine intermodalità, reduction of the road traffic (freeways of the sea).
The Harbour Authorities of Augusta and Catania and the Society To interpose to you Sicilian for the Interporto of Catania are also engaged to adopt, in the respect of the single managerial autonomies, a form of “governance”, time to favor strategies shared with respect to the performance of the Program for the infrastructural development and of initiatives and activity shared of coordination, adoption of common rules and the optimization of I use it of existing infrastructures, felt also the opinion of the MIT, Authority of Management PON, the Porti Head office let alone of the Sicilian Region.
ART. 3 - Engagements of the MIT -
DG for the development of the territory the international programming and projects
The MIT - Head office for the development of the territory the international programming and projects, with reference to the participations of own competence plays the role of Authority of Management of the PON Nets and Mobility 2007-2013, with tasks of appraisal, selection and admission to financing and second the tasks delineated from the Document of Description of the System of Management and Control, cx art. 70 and sgg. of the Reg. EC 1083/2006.
The MIT presides the technical Table of which to next art. the 9 and every convenes the reunions qualvolta upon request considers it or of the others members of the Table necessary.
It is moreover engaged to stipulate the Convention with the Sicilian Region for the financing of the Participation “Interporto of Catania - Polo Intermodale”, already inserted in the list of the Participations of Decreto of the AdG of the PON Nets and Mobility n. 9957 of the 2.11.2011.
The MIT is also engaged:
to promote, in independent way or upon request of the responsibles of the single participations, every useful initiative to the aims of the respect of the engagements and the obligations by the subject underwriters of anticipates Protocol;
to put into effect every initiative useful to accelerate the release of the opinions of own competence on the projects of Protocollo, to the aim to guarantee the respect of the times of performance.
ART. 4 - Engagements of the Sicilian Region -
Department of Infrastructures, Mobility and the Transports
The Sicilian Region is beneficiary of the participation “Interporto of Catania: Intermodal pole” for the development of the interporto same. The participation will be realized by the Society of Interposing to you Siciliani Spa with the scope to complete and to upgrade the zone of interchange and the logistics of the goods to support of the marine ports of call of the port of Augusta and Catania.
The Sicilian Region has the task to sign with the Society of Sicilian Interposing you the Convention having to object the operating modalities of verification and monitoring of the participations to the aim to afford the start of the projects second program and to afford the reimbursement of the expense previewed from the PON Nets and Mobility.
The Sicilian Region, which the actions of programming for the development of the Southeastern area of the Region compete, has moreover the task of:
to accelerate every useful initiative to the release of the opinions of own competence on the projects of anticipates Protocol, to the aim to guarantee the respect of the times of performance;
to collaborate with the MIT for the location of new functional participations to the purposes of anticipates protocol to share also during Committee of Address and Performance (central intelligence agency).
ART. 5 - Engagements of the Harbour Authority of Augusta
The Harbour Authority of Augusta, than with the project of which to art. the 2 - Table To is engaged among other things to activate and to upgrade a terminal containers in the port of Augusta, necessary to feeding the logistic and industrial activity of the area of the field South of Catania and Sud-Orientale of the Sicily, is engaged, for how much of competence, with the subscription of anticipates Protocol of Understanding, placing in being every necessary, opportune and/or useful activity in order to achieve the obtaining of all the opinions and authorizations, previewed from the law and/or demanded from the competent administrative authorities for the definitive approval of the projects and the execution of the participations.
To the state of the programming the picture of the sources financial institutions available is the following one:
PROJECT
Cost total investment
Contribution FESR PON
Contribution It are PON
Other state contributions (CIPE and L.166/02)
Deep own Harbour Authorities
Widening large square 1° extract
€ 28.300.000, 00
€ 9,931 885
€ 9,931 885
€ 1.891.591
€ 6.544.639
Adaptation dock 1° extract
€ 38.700.000, 00
€ 13.581.765
€ 13.581.765
€ 6.800.000
€ 4.736.470
Realization docks container 2° extract
€ 52.500.000, 00
€ 18.424.875
€ 18.421.875
€ -
€ 15.650.250
TOTAL
€ 119.500.000, 00
€ 41.938.525
€ 41.938.525
€ 8.691.591
€ 26.931.359
The Harbour Authority is also engaged:
to finance the part of own competence and to make to realize all the complementary works that had to become necessary as a result of the realization of the works object of anticipates Protocol of understanding;
to collaborate with the MIT for the location of new functional participations to the purposes of it anticipates protocol let alone to place in being, for how much of competence, every necessary, opportune and/or useful activity in order to achieve the obtaining of all opinions and authorizations, previewed from the law and/or demanded from the competent administrative authorities for the definitive approval of the projects and the execution of the art. the 2 participations of which to Table B;
to activate with the Harbour Authority of Catania and the Society To interpose to you Sicilian for interporto of Catania a programmatico agreement that values the activities and the investments, determining a turned synergy to create a system of activities common and their mass to system for the valorization of existing infrastructures and the future investments let alone to realize, in practice, the perseguimento of synergies and complementariness.
ART. 6 - Engagements of the Harbour Authority of Catania
The Harbour Authority of Catania, than with the project of which to art. the 2 - Table To is engaged among other things to realize the finalized dock also to traffic ro-ro, necessary to feeding the logistic activity of the area of the field South of Catania and Sud-orientale of the Sicily, is engaged, for how much of competence, with the subscription of anticipates Protocol of Understanding, to place in being every necessary, opportune and/or useful activity for the execution of the participations in being.
To it are of the work the picture of the sources financial institutions available he is the following one:
PROJECT
Cost total investment
Contribution FESR PON
Contribution It are PON
Other state contributions (L.166/02)
Other state contributions (L.413/98)
Deep own Harbour Authorities
Realization of commercial dock to service of the traffics ro-ro
€ 100.000.000
€ 5.805.544, 34
€ 4.032.450, 01
€ 37.538.000, 00
€ 44.731.155, 61
remaining
The Harbour Authority is also engaged:
to finance the part of own competence and to make to realize all the complementary works that had to become necessary as a result of the realization of the works object of anticipates Protocol of Understanding;
to collaborate with the MIT for the location of new functional participations to the purposes of it anticipates protocol let alone to place in being, for how much of competence, every necessary, opportune and/or useful activity in order to achieve the obtaining of all the opinions and authorizations, previewed from the law and/or demanded from the competent administrative authorities for the definitive approval of the projects and the execution of the art. the 2 participations of which to Table B;
to activate with the Harbour Authority of Augusta and the Society To interpose to you Sicilian for interporto of Catania a programmatica agreement that values the activities and the investments, determining a turned synergy to create a system of activities common and their mass to system for the valorization of existing infrastructures and the future investments let alone to realize, in practice, the perseguimento of synergies and complementariness.
ART. 7 - Engagements of the Society To interpose Siciliani to you Interporto of Catania
The Society To interpose you Sicilian (SIS) with the project of which to art. the 2 Table To is engaged to realize Polo Intermodale. SIS is engaged, for how much of competence, with the subscription of Protocollo d' Intesa, to place in being every necessary, opportune and/or useful activity for the execution of the participations in being.
To the state of the programming the picture of the sources financial institutions available is the following one:
PROJECT
Cost total investment
Contribution FESR PON
Contribution It are PON
L.R. 20/2003
Deep own
Deep civil servants (CIPE)
Interporto of Catania – Polo Intermodale
€ 40.653.863, 00
€ 8.000.000, 00
€ 8.000.000, 00
€ 15.146.222, 00
€ 2.136.024, 00
€ 7.371.617, 00
SIS is also engaged:
to sign with the Sicilian Region the Convention for it I use of financings PON Nets and Mobility, exceeding every eventual criticality, within the date of the 31.10.2012;
to collaborate with the MIT for the location of new functional participations to the purposes of it anticipates protocol let alone to place in being, for how much of competence, every necessary, opportune and/or useful activity in order to achieve the obtaining of all the opinions and authorizations, previewed from the law and/or demanded from the competent administrative authorities for the definitive approval of the projects and the execution of the art. the 2 participations of which to Table B;
to activate with the Harbour Authority of Augusta and Catania a programmatica agreement that values the activities and the investments, determining a turned synergy to create a system of activities common and their mass to system for the valorization of existing infrastructures and the future investments let alone to realize, in practice, the perseguimento of synergies and complementariness.
ART. 8 - Modalities and times of performance of the Participations
The works will be planned, entrusted, executed and tested in the respect of the enforced communitarian, national and regional picture normative of reference and in particular of D.L.vo 163/06 and s.m.i and regional law 12/2011.
Regarding the participations financed with deep of the PON Nets and Mobility, the final deadline of admissibility of the previewed expense is that from enforced communitarian norm (31.12.2015).
The parts are engaged, each in the within of own competences, to guarantee the maximum and mutual collaboration, information and transparency beyond assuring the immediate availability of the documentation of technical nature and administrative profit and propedeutica for the editing of the project for the phases of realization and the activities of control, monitoring and communication.
9 ART. - Technical Table and nomination of the responsibles
for the performance of Protocollo of understanding
The underwriters of anticipate Protocol agree about the constitution near the MIT, Authority of Management of the PON, permanent a Technical Table for the coordination and the monitoring of all the activities connected to anticipates protocol.
In particular it competes to the aforesaid Technical Table verifying the projects, monitoring the correct performance of the participations, placing in being the necessary measures times to the overcoming of inherent criticalities the relationships between the Parts underwriters and to promote actions towards other Agencies for the resolution of eventual criticalities. It is up moreover to the table to monitor the effectiveness at the level of system of the participations activated on the base of anticipates protocol to the aims of the verification about the attainment of the objectives connected to the potenziamento of the Southeastern Quadrant of the Sicily.
The Parts will indicate respective referring for the participation to saying the Table, to which it is invited to participate the represented ones of the Regal DG of the EU commission.
The MIT provvederà with own note to name own representative, which will assume also the function of Coordinator of the Technical Table and will be designated to convene Partì, every qualvolta of ravvisi the necessity, to the aim to guarantee the monitoring of the project and the resolution of the eventual criticalities.
The burdens for the participation to the Technical Table will be at the expense of every Administration/represented Society.
For all eventual the problematic ones that had to rebel in the prosieguo of the activities, the MIT, on indication of the Technical Table, will convene appropriate encounters with the Representatives of the Territorial Agencies as well as of the Agencies signers to the aim to reach, in times breviums, to solutions shared.
Rome, them 7 August 2012
Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports Head office for the Development of the Territory, the International Programming and Projects
Qualification; Director Generale
Name and Last name: Maria Margherita Migliaccio
Signature:
Sicilian region Department of Infrastructures, Mobility and the Transports
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The ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports has announced that the understanding protocol is perfected that previews participations finalized to the commercial potenziamento and of the intermodal transport of the goods in the Southeastern Quadrant of the Sicily. The document, that we publish below, engages the ministry, in the within of program PON Nets and Mobility 2007-13, and some territorial agencies of the Sicily which the Region, the Harbour Authorities of Augusta and Catania and the society of management of the interporto of Catania, to finance, to monitor and to verify the important realization infrastructures, harbour and interportuali for the development of the logistics and the commercial exchange towards the Southeastern Sicily.
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