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Green light of the Senate to ratifies of Protocollo Transports of the Convention of the Alps
The provision passes to the examination of the Chamber
September 19, 2012

Last night the Senate, with 164 ballots to favor, 83 against and 11 abstainers, has approved of the relative bill to ratifies and the execution of Protocollo of performance of the Convention for the protection of the Alps of 1991 in the within of the transports, provision that now passes to the examination of the Chamber and that it stretches to favor the passage of the system of transport in the within of the alpine arc from street infrastructures to railway infrastructures.

The assembly of the Senate has approved of also two orders of the day that engage the government to consider in application center of the geomorfologiche peculiarities of Italy and to safeguard the works in progress for the street connections with the other Countries signers Protocollo "Transports", that we publish below.

Worries for the economic and infrastructural damages deriving to Italy from the signature of the document are expressed by Lega Nord, from National Cohesion and from various senators of Popolo of the Freedom that has voted against it ratifies. The majority favorable to the provision has emphasized instead that Protocollo, connected to the new transeuropee nets, does not prohibit the construction of new freeways in the national territory.

In the declarations of ballot in favor of it ratifies, senator Pedica (IdV) has placed the accent on the possibility, offered from Protocollo, to find the contrast between the objective of the environmental sustainability of the transports and the projects of the high speed: "the lacked one ratifies of Protocollo on the transports - it has observed the representative of Italy of the Values - would damage is the image of Italy in the European assembly is the interest of the population resident in the alpine territory to protecting own health and the atmosphere in which weevers. Protocollo offers in fact adequate instruments in order to oppose itself to the realization of great infrastructures of transport in the cases in which this confligga with the protection of the alpine atmosphere: under this profile - it has emphasized - it could be reexamined also the realization of the TAV in Susa Valley, than Italy of the Values critical strongly. It ratifies of Protocollo will not prevent however the realization in street infrastructure Italy new, provided that these answer to requirement of precaution, environmental sustainability and economization, and will constitute the starting point in order to modify the current formulation of the system of the transports Italian, based essentially on the traffic on rubber".

The Contini Senator (Third Pole) has asserted that the reduction of the environmental impact of the transport goods demands a co-ordinate participation and has rimarcato that "Protocollo does not exclude the construction of freeways on the national territory and does not damage the road haulage. Lacked its ratifies - it has added - would empty instead of contained the Convention of the Alps".

Senator Peterlini (UDC) has remembered that all the Regions of the alpine arc are in favor of Protocollo the lacked approval of which would empty the Convention of the Alps: "the protected interests with the bill - it has specified - are not localistici, but the populations regard all residents in the regions of the alpine arc and the Italy which, was where not ratified Protocollo transports, on which moreover there is already the consent of UPI and ANCI in all their political expressions, it would run the risk to remain cut outside from an Europe that it has already chosen, for economic, social and environmental reasons, to transfer on track great infrastructures of transport. They are polemical sterile - according to Peterlini - those which they induce to consider that Italy will not be able more to realize roads and freeways on own territory, for which the Parliament is called to honor the engagements assumed from the Country in European center".

Senator Tonini (PD) has recalled the requirements of infrastructural modernization and has expressed the "convincement that ratifies it of Protocollo transports will not hinder the potenziamento of the street and highway structures of Italy. He is in any case ineludible by now - he has found the representative of the Party Democratic - the choice to transfer progressively on track increasing quotas transport, in particular of the goods, online with the decisions taken in this direction in the remainder of Europe. The Country - it has added - must know to pick the challenge of the technological modernization of infrastructures own in order not to lose competitiveness".

Senator Dini (PdL), specifying that "the second task is lacking in foundation which Protocollo of performance of the Convention for the protection of the Alps places from obstacle to the realization of infrastructural works on the Italian territory" and that more rather "it stimulates instead uses it of the transalpine rail shipment", in the ballot declarations he has invited the Group to support the provision remembering that the government Berlusconi was in favor of ratifies.

The senators Castles (LNP), Menardi (CN) and Bonfrisco (PdL) have declared that Protocollo constitutes an obstacle to the development and damages the export, precluding the possibility to construct an integrated system of the transports. In particular, the exponent of Lega Nord has evidenced that "the assembly has not picked the negative capacity of Protocollo of performance of the Convention for the protection of the Alps, than - it has explained Castles - will prevent the realization of new ways of communication not only transboundary, but also transalpine, so hindering Italy in the action of recovery of the gap of development in it confronts of the other European Countries". "In question - he has evidenced moreover Castles - it is not the choice between transport on rubber and transport on track: from a decade all the governments invest on the railroads. The point is that the environmental protection cannot sacrifice the development perspectives: the infrastructure lack involves the closing of the plants and the offshoring of the productions. It is necessary to comprise - it has continued the senator of Lega Nord - than effects will have Protocollo on the works already planned, as the work, that they are about to be under way, for the improvement of I tunnel of Glues of Stretches that it connects Italy and France. With the exception of the Trentino Alto Adige, that it enjoys conspicuous state financings, the ordinary Regions of the alpine arc strongly will be penalized by Protocollo. A subordinate political culture in confronts of Europe - it has denounced Castles - once again prevents to protect the prevailing interests of the Country".

Commenting the favorable ballot of the Senate on Protocollo Transports, the former undersecretary to Bartolomeo Giachino Transports, than many times over it has denounced as the provision will penalize the Italian economy, has commented that "the ballot of the Senate on the protocol transports will create difficulty to the Italian transports that, only in Europe, in order to transport the Italian exports that to 70% heads in Europe will have difficulty and puts up costs. Already today - Giachino has stated - the crosswalk of the passes costs at least 1,5 billion euros. So while the Tav do not slow down tunnel railway, a hurried ballot, contrary to the ballot of the Chamber of Deputies on October 26, 2011, creates difficulty to the street connections. Some areas of our Country (Cuneo) - it has concluded Giachino - in order to go in Europe have only the possibility of the road, as they will make to arrange them".



PROTOCOL OF PERFORMANCE OF
CONVENTION OF THE ALPS OF 1991
IN THE WITHIN OF THE TRANSPORTS

PROTOCOL "YOU TRANSPORT"


Preamble

The Republic of Austria
the French Republic,
the Federal Republic of Germany,
the Italian Republic,
the Principality of Liechtenstein,
the Principality of Monk,
the Republic of Slovenia,
the Switzerland Confederation,
let alone
the European Community,

- in conformity with their mandate deriving from the Convention for the Protection of the Alps (Convention of the Alps) on November 7, 1991, to assure total politics of protection and sustainable development of the alpine territory;
- in performance of their engagements of which to article 2, codicils 2 and 3 of the Convention of the Alps;
- aware that the alpine territory comprises an area characterized from particularly sensitive ecosystems and landscapes or from geographic and topographical conditions such to emphasize the pollution and the acoustic impact or an area characterized from the presence of only natural resources or cultural;
- aware that in absence of adapted provisions, because of progressive integration of the markets, the social and economic development and the requirements tied to the activities of free time, the traffic and the environmental impact that achieves some are destined to increase;
- convinced that the local population must be mail in condition for determining same it the perspectives of own social development, cultural and economic, let alone to concur to its realization in the enforced institutional picture;
- aware that the transports are not lacking in repercussions on the atmosphere and that the environmental impact which had to the transports provokes to a loaded increasing and ecological risks, for the health and the safety, which demand a joint action;
- aware that the transport of goods dangerous demands participations more incisors to the aim to guarantee safety;
- aware that is the requirement to return the connections between transports, atmosphere, health and economic development transparent, it is that to return the necessity evident to reduce the environmental impact demand organic activities of monitoring, searches, information and guideline;
- aware that in the alpine territory politics of the transports oriented to the sustainability principles are not of interest for the single alpine population but also for that extraalpine one and that he is moreover indispensable for the conservation of the Alps as vital space, natural and economic;
- aware that the transport infrastructures partially sufficiently are on one side not taken advantage of and that from the other they do not come adequately promoted the more ecological systems of transport, which arranged track, navigation and systems, and not even the compatibility and the transnational operativity of several means of transport, and that it is therefore necessary to optimize them, strengthening the nets of transport at home and abroad of the Alps;
- aware that the pianificatorie choices and of economic politics operated inside and outside of the Alps are all-important for the development of the transports in the alpine territory;
- striving for giving a decisive contribution to the sustainable development and the improvement of the quality of the life through a control of the traffic volume, through a ecocompatibile management of the transports and through the increment of the effectiveness and the efficiency of the existing systems of transport;
- convinced of the necessity to conciliate the economic interests, the social requirements and those ecological ones;
- in the respect of the bilateral agreements and multilateral stipulated between the contracting Parts and the European Community, in particular in the field of the transports;
- convinced that determined problems they can be resolved on the transboundary plan and only demand common measures of the alpine States;

they have convene how much follows:


Chapter I

General dispositions

Article 1
Purpose
  1. The contracting Parts are engaged to put into effect sustainable politics of the transports stiff to:
    1. a) to reduce the effects negatives and the risks deriving from the traffic intraalpino and transalpine to a level that is tolerable for the man, the fauna and the flora and their habitat, among other things putting into effect more consisting a transfer on track of the transports, in particular of the transport goods, above all by means of the creation of adequate infrastructures and consistent incentives at the market;
    2. b) to contribute to the sustainable development of the vital space and the economic activities, as fundamental premises for the same existence of the populations residents in the alpine territory by politics of the transports organic and concerted between the contracting Parts that involve all the carriers;
    3. c) to contribute to reduce or to limit for the how much possible impact that it can compromise the role and the resources of the alpine territory let alone the conservation of its natural and cultural landscapes - whose importance is extended beyond its borders, and that the conservation of this territory still fundamentalally intact can endanger;
    4. d) to guarantee the traffic intraalpino and transalpine increasing the effectiveness and the efficiency of the systems of transport and favoring smaller the less polluting carriers and with consumption of resources to an economically bearable cost;
    5. e) to guarantee conditions of competition balanced between the single carriers.
  • The contracting Parts are engaged to develop to the field of the transports taking into consideration the principles of precaution, prevention and causality.


  • Article 2
    Definitions

    According to Protocol anticipates, agrees for:
    traffic/transalpine transport”: traffic/transport with origin and destination outside of the alpine territory;
    traffic/transport intraalpino”: traffic/transport with origin and destination inside of the alpine territory (traffic/internal transport) included the traffic/transport with origin or destination in the alpine territory;
    tolerable impact and risks”: impact and risks to define itself within procedures of environmental impact statement and risk analysis with the scope to stop the ulterior increase of the impact and the risks and to reduce them, in case necessary, through appropriate provisions are if of new constructions are for infrastructure existing with remarkable impact on the territory;
    external costs”: cost voices for which an user of a good or a service (eg. infrastructure) does not support an expenditure. They comprise the use of the infrastructure if it is free, the damages, the pollution, also acoustic, the occasionati sanitary costs from the use of the transports and the incidents;
    great constructions or substantial transformations or potenziamento of existing infrastructures of transport”: susceptible infrastructural projects to provoke impact that based on the norm on the WAY or contained dispositions in international Agreements they are subject to procedures of environmental impact statement;
    roads of great communication”: all the freeways and the roads more lanes, lacking than intersections to shaved, than for their effects in terms of traffic are assimilable to the freeways;
    objectives of environmental quality”: objectives that describe to the auspicious state of the atmosphere taking into consideration the ecosystem interdependences. They indicate in material, spatial and temporal terms the qualities, to the occurrence aggiornabili, of the deserving assets of being protected;
    standard of environmental quality”: concrete norms that afford to reach the objectives of environmental quality; they determine the objectives applicable to determined parameters, the procedures of measurement or the conditions picture;
    environmental indicators”: the environmental indicators measure or estimate the state of the environmental impact and indicate the tendencies of development;
    precaution principle”: it is the second principle which the participations you turn to avoid, to manage or to reduce the serious or irreversible effects on the health and the atmosphere cannot be sent back, with the motivation that the scientific research has not still demonstrated, in rigorous way, the existence of a relationship of cause-effect between on one side the substances contemplated and from the other the their potential nocività for the health and the atmosphere;
    causality principle”: included the imputation of the induced effects it is the principle by virtue of which the relative costs to the prevention, the management and the reduction of the pollution, let alone to the environmental restoration, are at the expense of who it pollutes. Whoever pollutes is held, for how much possible one, to put up with the totality of the cost of the impact that the transports cause on the health and the atmosphere;
    verification of opportunity”: procedure of appraisal to realize in compliance with the national right in occasion of the planning of great infrastructures or the substantial or the potenziamento of those existing and stiff transformation to verify of the necessity and the effects in terms of politics of the transports, let alone of ecological, economic and sociocultural impact.


    Article 3
    Sustainable transports and mobility
    1. Al fine to develop the transports in conditions of sustainability, the contracting Parts, adopting environmental politics and of the transports concerted and stiff to the reduction of the impact and the risks which had to the transports, is engaged to:
      1. to hold account of the requirements of the atmosphere in way such gives
        1. to reduce the consumption of the resources to a point such not to exceed, for how much possible one, the natural ability to regeneration;
        2. to reduce the emission of injurious substances to a point such not to exceed the cargo ability of the environmental resources interested;
        3. to limit the breakings in the atmosphere to a point such to avoid repercussions on the ecological structures and the natural cycles.
  • to hold account of the requirements of the society in way such gives
    1. to guarantee accessibility to the people, the places of work, the assets and the services in efficient, respectful way of the atmosphere, making thrifty use of energy and space, let alone to guarantee sufficient supplying of base;
    2. not to compromise the health of the man and to reduce the risk of natural calamities, let alone the number and the gravity of the incidents;
  • to hold account of the requirements of the economy in way such gives
    1. to increase the autofinanziabilità of the field of the transports and to internizzare the external costs;
    2. to promote the optimal exploitation of the potentialities of the existing infrastructure;
    3. to safeguard the places of work in the competitive companies and enterprises that operate in the various sectors economic;
  • to adopt participations more incisors in the fight to the acoustic pollution considering the particularitity of the alpine topography.
  • In conformity with enforced the national and international norm in the within of the transports, the contracting Parts are engaged to develop guidelines, strategies and measures of national, regional and local character, finalized to
    1. to take into consideration the different environmental conditions, economic and sociocultural, let alone of the diversity of the requirements,
    2. to limit emphasizing itself of the impact which had to the transports, being adopted a combination of economic instruments and participations of territorial planning and the transports.


  • Article 4
    Consideration of the purposes in the other policies
    1. The contracting Parts are engaged to hold account of the purposes established from anticipate Protocol also in the within of theirs other policies.
    2. The contracting Parts are engaged to verify preventively and a posteriori the effects that other policies, strategies and programs produce on the field of the transports.


    Article 5
    Participation of the territorial agencies
    1. The contracting Parts promote the international collaboration between the competent institutions, to the aim to characterize the best solutions concerted and coordinated to transboundary level.
    2. Each contracting Part determines in the enforced institutional picture the more suitable level to the coordination and the collaboration between the institutions and the territorial agencies directly interested to the aim to promote a loyal responsibility and, in particular, to value and to develop the potential synergies in the performance of politics of the transports, let alone of the consequent measures,
    3. In the respect of their competences in the enforced institutional picture, the directly interested territorial agencies participate to the various stages of preparation and performance of the relative policies and measures.


    Article 6
    Measures strengthened of protection on a national level

    Fact except how much disposed one in the enforced international Agreements, the contracting Parts can adopt measures strengthened of protection that go beyond those previewed from anticipate Protocol, stiff to the protection of ecologically sensitive the alpine atmosphere, when they demand determined it conditions of the atmosphere or reasons of public health and safety or requirements of environmental protection.




    Chapter II

    Specific measures

    A) Strategies, programs, projects

    Article 7
    General strategy of politics of the transports
    1. In the interest of the sustainability the contracting Parts are engaged to put into effect a rational and sure management of the transports in the context of a net of transports integrated, coordinated and transboundary stiff to:
      1. to coordinate the carriers, means and the types of transport and to favor the intermodalità;
      2. to in the best way take advantage of the systems and existing infrastructures of transport in the alpine territory, among other things with the employment of the data transmission, and to charge to those who they cause the infrastructural and external costs to them, differentiating them according to the caused impact,
      3. to affect, through participations of order of the territory and structural, in favor of the transfer of the services of transport of people and goods on that carrier that from time to time turns out most respectful of the atmosphere, let alone the intermodal systems of transport,
      4. to value and to take advantage of the potential ones of reduction of the traffic volume.
  • The contracting Parts are engaged to realize, in the best possible way, the necessary participations to:
    1. protect the ways of transport against the natural risks,
    2. protect the man and the atmosphere in the areas subject to particular impact which had to the transports,
    3. to reach a gradual reduction of the emissions of injurious substances and the sonorous emissions for all the carriers also on the base of the best technologies available.
    4. to increase safety of the transports.


  • Article 8
    Appraisal of projects and procedure of inter-state consultation
    1. If of great constructions, substantial transformations or potenziamento of existing infrastructures of transport, the contracting Parts are engaged to realize verifications of opportunity, environmental impact statements and risk analysis and to hold account of the relative results to the aims of the objectives of anticipates Protocol.
    2. The projects of infrastructure realization of transport in the alpine territory go coordinated and concerted. If of having projects a meaningful transboundary impact, every contracting Part is engaged to realize pre-emptive consultations with the interested contracting Parts, to more late when the results of the verifications are available. These dispositions do not prejudice the right of every contracting Part to proceed to the construction of those infrastructures of the transports whose realization is decided in the within of own legal system or whose necessity is assessed for law at the moment of the approval of Protocol anticipates.
    3. The contracting Parts support a greater one taken in consideration of the member transport in the environmental management of the situated enterprises in their Countries.


    B) Technical measures

    Article 9
    Public transport

    In order to preserve and to improve in sustainable way the insediativa and economic structure, let alone the recreational and tourist vocation of the alpine territory, the contracting Parts are engaged to promote the institution and the potenziamento of systems of public transport ecocompatibili and oriented the users.


    Article 10
    Transport on track and navigation
    1. Al fine to take advantage of the particular suitability of the railroad in order to satisfy the question of transport to long distance and the aim of a better exploitation of the railway net for the economic and tourist valorization of the alpine territory, the contracting Parts, in the within of their competences, support:
      1. the improvement of the railway infrastructure through the construction and the development of great aces transalpine, included the relative terminal connections and adapted;
      2. the ulterior managerial optimization and the modernization of the railroad, in particular for transport transboundary;
      3. the provisions thesis to transfer on the track in particular the transport goods to long distance, let alone to harmonize mainly rate making for I use it of transport infrastructures;
      4. the intermodal systems of transport, let alone the ulterior development of the railroad;
      5. the greater one I use of the railroad and the creation of synergies oriented to the user in the transport fleeting to long distance, regional and local.
  • The contracting Parts support the efforts thesis to the greater one use of the potentialities of navigation to the aim to reduce the quota terrestrial transit of the transport goods.


  • Article 11
    Transport on the road
    1. The contracting Parts abstain from the construction of new roads of great communication for the transalpine transport.
    2. Of the street projects of great communication for the transport intraalpino they can be realized single on condition that:
      1. the objectives established to article 2, codicil 2, letter j of the Convention of the Alps can be reached through appropriate participations of realized precaution or compensation based on the results of an environmental impact statement, and
      2. the requirements of transport ability cannot be satisfied neither through a better exploitation of existing the street and railway abilities, neither upgrading or constructing railway infrastructures and of navigation, neither improving the arranged transport or adopting other participations of organization of the transports, and
      3. from the verification of opportunity it turns out that the project is economic, than the risks are controlable and that the outcome of the environmental impact statement is positive,
      4. account of the plans/programs of regional planning and of the sustainable development holds.
  • Since the geographic conditions and the insediativa structure of the alpine territory do not afford wherever a efficient service from part from public transport, the contracting Parts recognize however the necessity to create and to maintain a level sufficient of transport infrastructures that guarantee the operation of the individual transport in the peripheral areas.


  • Article 12
    Aerial transport
    1. Without to demand it from the other regions, the contracting Parts are engaged to reduce, for how much possible one, the environmental impact and acoustic producing by the air traffic. Taken into consideration the objectives of they anticipate Protocol strive so that it is limited, and to the prohibited occurrence, the launch from aircrafts outside of the aerodromes. To the aims of the protection of the wildlife, the contracting Parts adopt adequate measures in order to limit in terms of space and time the not motorized air traffic in free time.
    2. The contracting Parts are engaged to improve the system of public transport that connects the airports nearby sites of the Alps with the various alpine regions for being able to tackle to the question of aerial transport without to increase the pressure on the atmosphere. In such context the contracting Parts convene to limit, in the measure of the possible one, the construction and the meaningful potenziamento of the existing airports in the alpine territory.


    Article 13
    Tourist systems
    1. The contracting Parts are engaged to estimate the effects produced on the field of the transports from new tourist installations, taking into consideration the objectives of Protocol anticipates, and to adopt, to the occurrence, compensation and precaution provisions actions to the attainment of the purposes of anticipate Protocol or of other Protocolli. To such purpose it goes given precedence to public transport.
    2. The contracting Parts support the creation and the conservation of zones to lowland intensity of traffic or prohibited to the traffic, let alone the institution of tourist resorts prohibited to the traffic and all the measures apt to favor the access and the stay of the tourists without automobiles.


    Article 14
    Truth of the costs

    Al fine to influence on the modal division of the transports by a better consideration of the actual costs of the different carriers, the contracting Parts convene to apply the causality principle and support the application of a system of calculation that affords the location of the costs of infrastructure and those outdoors. The objective is that progressively to introduce systems of taxation that afford to cover in fair way these actual costs and that
    1. they favor the resource to the carriers and the more respectful means of transport of the atmosphere;
    2. they carry more to a balanced use of transport infrastructures;
    3. they offer incentives that they afford a reduction of the ecological and socioeconomic impact through structural and territorial provisions that affect the transports.


    C) Monitoring and control

    Article 15
    Offer and use of transport infrastructures
    1. The contracting Parts are engaged to record and to dawn periodically, following a unitary outline, the current state, the evolution and the exploitation that is the improvement of the infrastructure and the systems of transport to high ability, let alone the reduction of the environmental impact in an appropriate document of reference.
    2. On the base of such document of reference the contracting Parts verify in which measure the several implementing provisions contribute to the attainment and to the ulterior development of the objectives of the Convention of the Alps and in particular of Protocol anticipates.


    Article 16
    Objectives of environmental quality, standard and indicators
    1. The contracting Parts establish and adopt objectives of environmental quality thesis to the attainment of the sustainability of the transports.
    2. The contracting Parts convene on the necessity to arrange of standards and indicators adapted to the specific conditions of the alpine territory.
    3. The application of such standards and such indicators is finalized to quantify the evolution of the impact on the atmosphere and the health provoked from the transports.


    Chapter III

    Coordination, search, formation and information

    Article 17
    Coordination and information

    The contracting Parts convene to realize, to the occurrence, of the encounters in order:
    1. to verify the effects of the participations realized based on anticipates Protocol,
    2. to consult itself before to take important decisions for the field of the transports that have effects on the other contracting States;
    3. to promote the exchange of information to the aims of the performance of anticipates Protocol resorting in particular to the existing systems of information,
    4. to inquire before to take important decisions in matter of politics of the transports to the aim to integrate them in transboundary and harmonized politics of regional planning.


    Article 18
    Search and observation
    1. The contracting Parts promote and harmonize in tightened cooperation the search and the systematic observation with respect to the interactions between transports and atmosphere in the alpine territory, let alone to specific developments on the technological plan actions to increase the economization of the respectful systems of transport of the atmosphere.
    2. In the course of the verification of the performance of Protocol anticipates goes debitamente held account of the results of the combined activities of search and observation, in particular according to the elaboration of methods and criteria that afford to describe a sustainable development of the transports.
    3. The contracting Parts supply so that the results of the lead searches on a national level and the systematic observation are collected in a common system of observation and information permanent and returned accessible to the public in the enforced institutional picture.
    4. The contracting Parts support the operating projects pilot thesis to the performance of programs and sustainable technologies for the field of the transports.
    5. The contracting Parts support the analyses on the applicabilità of the methods of environmental and intermodal strategic appraisal.


    Article 19
    Formation and information of the public opinion

    The contracting Parts promote the formation and the update, let alone the information of the public opinion in relation to the objectives, the measures and the performance of anticipates Protocol.



    Chapter IV

    Control and appraisal

    Article 20
    Performance

    The contracting Parts are engaged to guarantee the performance of anticipate Protocol by means of measures adapted in the enforced institutional picture.


    Article 21
    Control of the respect of the obligations
    1. The contracting Parts regularly anticipate to the permanent Committee a report on the measures adopted based on anticipate Protocol. In the report the effectiveness of the adopted measures is indicated. The Conference of the Alps establishes the regularity of the reports.
    2. The permanent Committee examines the reports to the aim to verify if the contracting Parts have acquitted the obligations deriving from anticipate Protocol. It can ask also additional information the contracting Parts interested or to gather information from other sources.
    3. The permanent Committee writes up a report for the Conference of the Alps on the respect by the contracting Parts of the obligations deriving from anticipates Protocol.
    4. The Conference of the Alps takes note of this report. In case it states a lacked implementation the obligations, can adopt recommendations.


    Article 22
    Appraisal of the effectiveness of the dispositions
    1. The contracting Parts examine and estimate, to regular intervals, the effectiveness of the contained dispositions in anticipate Protocol. For how much necessary one to the attainment of the objectives of Protocol anticipates, they take in consideration the possibility to adopt appropriate modifications of same Protocollo.
    2. To this appraisal the territorial agencies participate, in the enforced institutional picture. Not governmental assets in the specific field can be felt the organizations.


    Chapter V

    Final dispositions

    Article 23
    Correspondence between the Convention of the Alps and Protocollo
    1. Protocol anticipates according to constitutes Protocollo of the Convention of the Alps of article 2 and other relevant articles of the same Convention.
    2. The contracting Parts of the Convention of the Alps can become contracting Parts of anticipate Protocol exclusively. Every denunciation of the Convention of the Alps is worth also as denunciation of anticipates Protocol.
    3. When the Conference of the Alps deliberates on concerning issues anticipates Protocol, solos the contracting Parts of the same Protocol have right of ballot in merit.


    Article 24
    Signature and ratifies
    1. Protocol anticipates is deposited for the signature by the States signers of the Convention of the Alps and the European Community, on October 31, 2000 let alone beginning from on November 6, 2000 near the Republic of Austria which depositary.
    2. Protocol anticipates takes effect for the contracting Parts that have expressed own consent to being bound from the same Protocol, three months after the day in which three States they will have deposited their instrument of ratifies, acceptance or approval.
    3. For the contracting Parts that will express successively own consent to being bound from anticipates Protocol, it will take effect three months after the day of the warehouse of the instrument of ratifies, acceptance or approval. As a result of the effectiveness of an amendment of Protocol anticipates, every new contracting Part of same Protocollo becomes contracting Part of Protocollo so amended.


    Article 25
    Notifications

    With respect to the Depositary anticipates Protocol notification to every State named in the preamble and to the European Community:
    1. every action of signature;
    2. every warehouse of an instrument of ratifies, acceptance or approval;
    3. each date of effectiveness of anticipates Protocol;
    4. each declaration which released from a contracting Part or signer;
    5. each denunciation notified from a contracting Part, with the date of its effectiveness.
    In faith of this, Protocol anticipates has been undersigned from the signers debitamente authorized.

    Fact to Lucerne, on October 31, 2000, in French, Italian, Slovenian and German language, whereby everyone of the four witnesses ago equally faith, in an original deposited near the Public Records Office of the Republic of Austria. The Depositary transmits to copies certifyd to the Parts signers.

    For the Republic of Austria
    For the French Republic,
    For the Federal Republic of Germany,
    For the Italian Republic,
    For the Principality of Liechtenstein,
    For the Principality of Monk,
    For the Republic of Slovenia,
    For the Switzerland Confederation,
    For the European Community
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    The China Shipowners' Association considers the measures taken by the US against Chinese ships a typical example of unilateralism and protectionism
    Beijing/Washington
    The WSC reiterates that such measures could undermine American trade, harm U.S. manufacturers, and undermine efforts to strengthen the nation's maritime industry.
    COSCO Expresses Strong Opposition to US Planned Taxes on Chinese Ships
    Growing share of new entrants in European rail transport sector
    Madrid
    In 2023, rail freight transport performance decreased by -8%
    New Chinese Ship Taxes That Will Only Raise Prices for Americans
    Washington
    The executive vice president of the US Chamber of Commerce denounced it
    Tax amounts set for China-linked vessels arriving at US ports
    Washington
    Calculated on the basis of net capacity or container volume, they will be applied from October and will be progressively increased
    International tender launched to award concession for new Casablanca port shipyard
    Casablanca
    It is the largest in Africa and has been unused since 2019
    Federlogistica, the industry must stop approaching logistics only in terms of costs
    Genoa
    Falteri: a national control room composed of representatives of the logistics sector and industrial groups is necessary
    ABB closes positive first quarter even if revenue growth is lower than expected
    Zurich
    Wierod: Our consolidated local-for-local approach protects us from the trade war
    New global minimum wage deal for seafarers
    Geneva
    The level will rise to $690 from January 1, 2026 to reach $704 from 2027 and $715 from 2028.
    Global trade in goods could fall by -1.5% this year
    Geneva
    WTO predicts. Okonjo-Iweala: Persistent uncertainty threatens to slow global growth, with serious negative consequences for the world
    In 2023, around two-thirds of all goods moved in the EU were transported by sea.
    Luxembourg
    In the period 2013-2023, only the share of road transport increased, while that of other modes decreased.
    Postal shipments of goods from Hong Kong to the US suspended
    Hong Kong
    Hongkong Post faces exorbitant and unreasonable tariffs due to unjustified and intimidating actions of the United States
    Confitarma highlights the need for the decarbonisation strategy not to penalise shipping compared to other modes
    Rome
    Zanetti: also ensure that the implementation process takes into account the operational needs of the industry
    Intercargo and Intertanko raise concerns over shipping decarbonisation deal
    London
    The complexity of the measure adopted by the IMO and the unusual procedure from which non-governmental organizations were excluded were highlighted
    Pirate attacks on ships to spike in first quarter of 2025
    Pirate attacks on ships to spike in first quarter of 2025
    London
    Sharp increase in incidents in the Singapore Straits
    Interferry welcomes IMO agreement on decarbonisation of shipping, but finds strategy too complex
    Victoria/Piraeus
    Greek Shipowners' Association disappointed by failure to recognise essential role of transition fuels such as LNG
    International Labour Organization Recognizes Seafarers as Key Workers
    London
    ITF and ICS: a historic moment
    CMA CGM to acquire 35% of Egypt's October Dry Port
    Cairo
    The company operates a dry port in the industrial and logistics zone near Cairo
    MSC Group's TiL to Take Full Control of Hutchison Ports Terminals
    New York
    Bloomberg reports this, specifying that the Panamanian terminals would be jointly managed with BlackRock
    Draft regulation on decarbonisation of shipping approved by MEPC includes mandatory fuel standard and pricing of greenhouse gas emissions
    London/Washington/Brussels
    The establishment of a Fund to collect resources deriving from the pricing of emissions is foreseen
    MIT indicates Matteo Paroli as new president of the ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado
    Rome/La Spezia
    The La Spezia port community also requests a name for the Eastern Liguria Port Authority
    Task force of five associations for the relaunch of Italian rail cargo
    Rome
    Initiative by Agens, Assoferr, Assologistica, Fercargo and Fermerci
    Confitarma underlines the importance of the shipping decarbonisation strategy being defined at IMO
    Rome
    The Italian Confederation specifies that it shares some of the USA's concerns
    WSC Reiterates Trump's Measures for National Maritime Industry Are Bad for U.S. Economy
    Washington
    Kramek: Ready to support the administration with constructive proposals
    Fincantieri and Accenture establish joint venture Fincantieri Ingenium
    Trieste/Milan
    The aim is to drive the digital transformation of the ship product and port logistics
    Meyer Werft has delivered the new luxury cruise ship Asuka III to NYK Cruises
    Papenburg/Emden
    It has a capacity of 744 passengers and 470 crew members
    As Trump formalizes measures to revitalize America's maritime industry, the nation's ports face a dramatic decline in traffic
    Washington/Geneva
    Okonjo-Iweala (WTO): With the escalation of trade tensions between the US and China, the exchange of goods between the two economies could decrease up to 80%
    CK Hutchison denies allegations of breach of concession contract for Panamanian ports of Cristóbal and Balboa
    Panama
    Panama Ports Company emphasizes that it has complied with all legal obligations and contractual commitments
    US Does Not Participate in IMO Negotiations on Shipping Decarbonization, Threatens Reciprocal Measures
    London
    Expressed opposition to any attempt to impose economic measures on ships based on greenhouse gas emissions or fuel choice
    T&E urges MEPC to agree clear and ambitious measures to decarbonise shipping
    Brussels
    It is necessary - the association underlines - to set binding objectives
    Meyer Yachts will build an ultra-luxury residential mega yacht for Ulyssia Residences
    Miami
    The ship will be 320 meters long and will be built at the Papenburg shipyard
    Le Aziende informano
    Il retrofit ibrido-elettrico di ABB guida i traghetti dei laghi italiani verso un futuro più sostenibile
    Neapolitan Grimaldi Group wins $1.3 billion order for nine ro-pax ships
    Neapolitan Grimaldi Group wins $1.3 billion order for nine ro-pax ships
    Helsinki/Naples
    Order at China Merchants Jinling Shipyard (Weihai)
    Viking orders two cruise ships from Fincantieri with option for two additional units
    Los Angeles/Trieste
    The two ships under construction in Ancona for the American brand will be the first in the world to be powered by hydrogen stored on board
    Federlogistica, the possible collapse of road transport is a risk for the country
    Genoa/Modena
    Ruote Libere reports that the government only needs to allocate a little money to avoid having to deal with the real problems of road hauliers
    Second edition of the European Maritime Transport Environmental Report published
    Lisbon/Copenhagen
    The new report indicates that promising progress has been made in several areas
    WSC, MEPC must provide clear measures to decarbonise shipping this week
    Washington
    Wood-Thomas: It is not possible that these decisions can be postponed to guidelines developed in two years
    Konecranes revenues increased by +7.7% in the first three months of 2025
    Helsinki
    343 million euros of new orders for port vehicles (+37.5%)
    Kuehne+Nagel posts first quarter of growth
    Schindellegi
    The logistics group's net sales amounted to 6.33 billion Swiss francs (+14.9%)
    Application by TDT (Grimaldi group) for the construction and management of 50% of the Terminal Darsena Europa in Livorno
    Leghorn
    The company has requested an extension of the duration of the current concession
    In 2024, 58 million invested in the modernization of the ports of Livorno, Piombino and the island of Elba
    Leghorn
    The final budget and the annual report of the AdSP have been approved
    EIB advice to strengthen climate resilience of the ports of Volos, Alexandroupolis and Patras
    Luxembourg
    It will assist port authorities in identifying and managing climate risks
    In the first quarter the port of Valencia handled 1.3 million containers (+3.4%)
    Valencia
    Transhipment traffic decline
    The Management Committee of the Central Tyrrhenian Sea Port Authority has unanimously approved the 2024 financial statement
    Naples
    SOS LOGistica will acquire the qualification of Third Sector Entity
    Milan
    The association currently has 74 members
    In the first three months of 2025, freight traffic in the ports of Barcelona and Algeciras decreased
    Barcelona/Algeciras
    Hupac transfers intermodal service with Padua to Novara
    Noise
    Until now the other terminal was the one in Busto Arsizio
    PSA SECH has operated the first 400-meter train at Parco Ferroviario Rugna
    Genoa
    Capacity up to 20 pairs of trains per day
    The 2024 financial statement of the Eastern Liguria Port Authority was unanimously approved
    The Spice
    The war clearance preparatory to the expansion of the Ravano Terminal in La Spezia is nearing completion
    The Spice
    The AdSP has invested over 600 thousand euros in it
    Francesco Rizzo appointed president of the AdSP of the Strait
    Rome
    He has repeatedly denounced the uselessness of the construction of the bridge over the Strait
    US aircraft attack Yemeni port of Ras Isa
    Tampa/Beirut
    38 dead and over a hundred injured
    In 2025 Stazioni Marittime predicts an increase in ferry and cruise traffic in the port of Genoa
    MIT Mobility Report Highlights Rising Demand for Both Passengers and Freight
    Rome
    In the first quarter, cargo traffic in Russian ports decreased by -5.6%
    St. Petersburg
    Both dry goods (-5.3%) and liquid bulk (-5.8%) are decreasing
    Andrea Giachero confirmed as president of Spediporto
    Genoa
    The board of directors of the association of Genoese freight forwarders has also been renewed for the three-year period 2025-2028
    Study for monitoring vehicular traffic in the ports of Venice and Chioggia
    Milan
    Order awarded to Circle and Arelogik
    In Italy, the rail freight transport sector is in deep trouble
    Geneva
    Fermerci calls for making traffic incentives structural and increasing and for refinancing the incentive for the purchase of locomotives and wagons
    Global Maritime Forum report on optimising ship calls to reduce emissions
    Copenhagen
    Virtual arrival and just-in-time arrival approaches proposed
    In the first quarter of this year, container traffic in the port of Gioia Tauro grew by +15.5%
    Joy Taurus
    Construction of the "Dockworker’s House" has begun
    GNV has taken delivery of the second of four new ro-pax vessels in China
    Genoa
    "GNV Orion" will be able to accommodate 1,700 passengers and transport up to 3,080 linear metres of cargo
    After ten quarters of decline, container traffic in the port of Hong Kong returns to growth
    Hong Kong
    In the first three months of this year 3.39 million TEUs were handled (+2.1%)
    Fincantieri acquires stake in WSense
    Rome
    The ninth FREMM unit "Spartaco Schergat" delivered to the Italian Navy
    The new edition of the Practical Manual of Maritime Traffic has been presented
    Genoa
    Written by Assagenti, it turns fifty
    Container traffic at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles increased by 26.6% and 5.2% in the first quarter
    Long Beach/Los Angeles
    Trump's tariffs impact imminent
    In the first three months of 2025, the port of Singapore handled 10.5 million containers (+5.8%)
    Singapore
    In weight, containerized traffic recorded a decrease of -1.4%
    Regulations signed for LNG bunkering at Fincantieri shipyard in Genoa
    Genoa
    Define the methods of transferring fuel from ship to ship
    Historic shipbuilding brands Uljanik and 3.Maj on the verge of extinction
    Zagreb
    The State confirms its intention to sell the shipbuilding activities at the two sites of Pula and Rijeka
    Cambiaso Risso has completed the acquisition of the French Somecassur
    Genoa
    The transalpine company specializes in the insurance of super and mega yachts
    New weekly train service between the port of Gioia Tauro and Verona
    Joy Taurus/Verona
    Operated by Medlog for the transport of refrigerated goods
    EBRD looking for strategic partner for development of Moldovan river port of Giurgiulesti
    London
    International competition launched
    SAILING LIST
    Visual Sailing List
    Departure ports
    Arrival ports by:
    - alphabetical order
    - country
    - geographical areas
    Turkish ports set new first-quarter cargo traffic record
    Ankara
    Historic peak of cargo imported from abroad
    In the first quarter of 2025, freight traffic in the port of Taranto grew by +37.6%
    Taranto
    Increase of 854 thousand tons of solid bulk and 265 thousand tons of conventional goods
    DEME buys Havfram, a company that installs offshore wind farms
    Second Right/Washington
    Transaction worth approximately 900 million euros
    Rail transport of convoys for Rome Metro started from Reggio Calabria
    Rome
    Contract awarded by Hitachi Rail to Mercitalia Rail
    In 2024, the volumes handled by Magli Intermodal Service decreased by -2%
    Rezzato
    Turnover stable
    Yang Ming records first decline in turnover in March after 14 months of growth
    Keelung/Taipei
    Evergreen and WHL revenue growth continues
    The European Commission has approved the acquisition of Germany's Schenker by Denmark's DSV
    Brussels
    The impact on competition in the markets in which the two companies operate is considered limited
    Fincantieri - Kayo Agreement to Promote the Development of the Shipbuilding and Naval Industry in Albania
    Trieste
    Possible creation of a hub for shipbuilding and refitting in the region
    Recent slight reduction in logistics costs for new factory vehicles
    Brussels
    Montaresi (AdSP Liguria Orientale) awarded with the "Port Oscar"
    Miami
    The event has reached its eighteenth edition
    In the first three months of 2025, containers carried by OOCL vessels increased by +9.3%
    Hong Kong
    Revenues up +16.8%
    The AdSP of the Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas wins in appeal against Zen Yacht
    Joy Taurus
    Company ordered to pay back rent
    A large shipment of cocaine was seized in the port of Livorno
    Leghorn
    Two tons of drugs identified by Customs and Financial Police personnel
    Navantia renews agreement with American cruise group Royal Caribbean
    Miami
    To date, the Cadiz shipyard has carried out maintenance, repair and refurbishment work on 45 of the group's ships.
    Record cruise traffic expected in Italian ports this year
    Miami
    Cemar believes that growth will not stop even in 2026
    HII-HHI Agreement to Accelerate US and South Korean Naval Production
    National Harbor
    The aim is to strengthen the naval industrial base of the two nations.
    Panama Ports Company Accused of Violating Terms of Concession Agreement
    Panama
    Panama's Auditor General announced the filing of criminal charges
    Colombo West International Terminal has become operational
    Ahmedabad
    It has a traffic capacity of 3.2 million TEUs
    The conference "New sustainable marine fuels - Decarbonize Shipping" will be held in Genoa on Monday
    Genoa
    The new multifunctional border control structure PCF - PED/PDI Point completed in the port of Gioia Tauro
    Joy Taurus
    "Artificial Intelligence Comes to Port" Conference in Rome on Friday
    Rome
    It is promoted by the National Union of Port Enterprises
    MSC Group's new cruise terminal inaugurated in Miami
    Miami
    It can accommodate three large ships at the same time
    In February, traffic in the port of Ravenna increased by +2.1%
    Ravenna
    Bulk cargo increases, miscellaneous cargo declines
    In 2024, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane recorded a net loss of -208 million euros
    Rome
    Revenues up by +11.7%. The group's freight transported increased thanks to the acquisition of Exploris
    Port of Genoa, Ente Bacini requests new spaces and renewal of the concession
    Genoa
    Conference to celebrate the centenary of the company
    The public meeting of the Italian Port Terminal Operators Association will be held in Rome on June 19th
    Genoa
    VARD to build offshore dive vessel for Dong Fang Offshore
    Alesund/Trieste
    The contract is worth 113.5 million euros
    PORTS
    Italian Ports:
    Ancona Genoa Ravenna
    Augusta Gioia Tauro Salerno
    Bari La Spezia Savona
    Brindisi Leghorn Taranto
    Cagliari Naples Trapani
    Carrara Palermo Trieste
    Civitavecchia Piombino Venice
    Italian Interports: list World Ports: map
    DATABASE
    ShipownersShipbuilding and Shiprepairing Yards
    ForwardersShip Suppliers
    Shipping AgentsTruckers
    MEETINGS
    The conference "New sustainable marine fuels - Decarbonize Shipping" will be held in Genoa on Monday
    Genoa
    It will take place at the headquarters of the Port Authority of Genoa
    "Artificial Intelligence Comes to Port" Conference in Rome on Friday
    Rome
    It is promoted by the National Union of Port Enterprises
    ››› Meetings File
    PRESS REVIEW
    Proposed 30% increase for port tariffs to be in phases, says Loke
    (Free Malaysia Today)
    Damen Mangalia Unionists Protest Friday Against Possible Closure
    (The Romania Journal)
    ››› Press Review File
    FORUM of Shipping
    and Logistics
    Relazione del presidente Nicola Zaccheo
    Roma, 18 settembre 2024
    ››› File
    Next week Italian ports will participate in Seatrade Cruise Global
    Rome
    Initiative brand: "CruiseItaly - One Country, Many Destinations"
    MSC Group Cruise Terminal Officially Inaugurated in the Port of Barcelona
    Barcelona
    In 2027 it will be equipped with a cold ironing plant
    Marcegaglia and Nova Marine Carriers form NovaMar Logistic joint venture
    Lugano/Gazoldo of the Ippoliti
    A general cargo ship will transport raw materials to the steel group's plants
    Liebherr achieves record annual sales in the maritime and port crane segment
    Bulls
    Strong demand for offshore and container handling equipment
    The annual conference "Programming, Operation and Management of Transport Networks" in Genoa
    Genoa
    It is dedicated to the transport and mobility sector
    Last year, 656 ships underwent repair work in Greece
    Piraeus
    Increase of five units compared to 2023
    Port of La Spezia, cruise ship docking simulations completed at Garibaldi West pier
    The Spice
    Assagenti conference on the future of the profession of maritime agent and broker
    Genoa
    It will be held tomorrow in Genoa
    Stena Line presents a project for a ro-ro vessel capable of reducing energy consumption by at least 20%
    Gothenburg
    Introduced most of the innovative technologies currently available
    Francesco Beltrano is the new general secretary of Uniport
    Rome
    He takes over from Paolo Ferrandino, who will continue to collaborate as a consultant
    Saipem awarded new contracts in Middle East and Guyana
    Milan
    The total value of the orders is approximately 720 million dollars.
    Conference in Genoa for the centenary of Ente Bacini
    Genoa
    The company was established on 19 February 1925
    Interporto Bologna Board of Directors Renewed
    Bentivoglio
    Stefano Caliandro Appointed President. Loss of 1.7 million euros in 2024
    NYK invests 76 billion yen in NYK Energy Ocean Corporation
    Tokyo
    The newco has taken over the activities of ENEOS Ocean
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