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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 Tuzla plant is much smaller than the Romanian one
    Six international shipping associations present a guide to planning safe navigation
    London
    The purpose is to detect, avoid, deter, delay and report attacks and incidents on ships.
    TUI awards Fincantieri contract for two new cruise ships for Marella Cruises
    Hanover/Trieste
    Deliveries are scheduled for 2030 and 2032
    ESPO urges EU and Member States to allocate funds to decarbonise ships and ports
    Brussels
    Earmarking Innovation Fund proceeds to stimulate demand for clean marine fuels
    China Antitrust Launches Investigation into Hutchison Ports' Panama Terminal Sale
    Beijing/Hong Kong
    Panama Ports Company operates the Balboa and Cristobal ports
    PSA posts annual revenue growth, but profits fall
    Singapore
    Sharp increase in operating costs across the board
    Temporary Port Labor Supply Company in Cagliari Extended for Another 18 Months
    Cagliari
    In 2024, cargo traffic in Chinese seaports grew by +3.5%
    Beijing
    Increase of +6.9% in traffic with foreign countries. In the first two months of 2025, 1.75 billion tons were moved (+1.6%)
    Chinese container maker CIMC posts bumper 2024
    In February, freight traffic in the port of Genoa fell by -4.4% and in Savona-Vado it increased by +24.5%
    Genoa
    Cruise and ferry passenger decline
    ICS, Trump's proposed measures against Chinese ships risk having significant unwanted consequences, even for the US
    Washington
    Strong opposition to their introduction also expressed by the WSC
    Intercargo, international measures for decarbonisation of shipping must be simple and clear
    London
    Gkonis: Must not compromise operational efficiency and smooth global transport of essential goods
    Port of Barcelona invests 124 million to develop sustainable fuel traffic
    Barcelona
    Construction of three new moorings at Moll de l'Energia
    In 2024, freight traffic in the port of Catania began to grow again. A decline in Augusta
    In 2024, freight traffic in the port of Catania began to grow again. A decline in Augusta
    Augusta
    A total of 7.9 million and 23.0 million tons of cargo were handled
    In 2024, the terminal operator HHLA recorded record revenues with a growth of +10.5%
    Hamburg
    Profit after taxes amounted to 56.4 million euros (+33.1%)
    Launch of a public consultation for the updating of the PRPs of the ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado
    Genoa
    The involvement of territorial, economic and social communities is foreseen
    ITU, ICAO and IMO highlight risks to maritime and air transport caused by attacks on satellite communications
    Geneva/Montreal/London
    London Government presents its strategy for decarbonising maritime transport
    London
    The measures for ports will be defined after a public consultation that will take place in the coming months
    For security, military ships are not enough, merchant ships are also essential
    London
    TUI in talks with shipyards for two new cruise ships for Marella
    Hanover
    Slots available starting from the 2031 financial year
    ANESCO, with the Port Employment Centers, accidents have decreased in the three main Spanish ports
    Madrid
    67% reduction in lost work days per year
    Filt, Fit and Uilt, no to the transformation from "article 18" to "16" of the Livorno port company LTM
    Leghorn
    Unions ask port authority to block proliferation of new economic entities
    Last year Fincantieri recorded record revenues and new orders
    Last year Fincantieri recorded record revenues and new orders
    Trieste
    Folgiero: the first fruits of our strategy and industrial vision have been harvested
    COSCO Shipping Holdings revenue increased by +44.8% in the fourth quarter of 2024
    COSCO Shipping Holdings revenue increased by +44.8% in the fourth quarter of 2024
    Shanghai
    In the period, the container ships of the Chinese group's fleet transported 6.9 million TEUs (+13.1%). Containers on the Asia-Europe/Med routes fell
    Porto Marghera, renewal of concession to Terminal Rinfuse Venezia
    Venice
    New 25-year contract. Investments of over 53 million euros expected
    Carnival Sets New Low Season Quarter Records December-February
    Carnival Sets New Low Season Quarter Records December-February
    Miami
    Positive outlook for the remainder of the 2025 financial year
    In the last quarter of 2024, container traffic alone increased in French ports
    Paris
    Le Aziende informanoSponsored Article
    AAL Shipping sceglie il sistema di consulenza marina di ABB per ottimizzare la flotta Super B-Class
    Rail Losing Ground in Transalpine Freight Traffic Through Switzerland
    Bern
    In 2024, trains transported 25.7 million tons of cargo (-3.7%)
    CK Hutchison's Port Division revenues grew by 10.8% last year
    Hong Kong
    In 2024, Hapag-Lloyd revenues increased by +6.5%. Net profit decreased by -18.9%
    In 2024, Hapag-Lloyd revenues increased by +6.5%. Net profit decreased by -18.9%
    Hamburg
    New historical record of containers transported by the fleet
    The OPS also serves to charge the batteries of ships while they are in port
    The OPS also serves to charge the batteries of ships while they are in port
    Brussels
    The ferry companies remind us of this by highlighting the need to have an adequate supply of electricity.
    The extension of the EU ETS to the maritime transport sector has not brought about significant changes in the shipping market
    Brussels
    This is stated in a report adopted by the European Commission, which found no evidence of tendencies towards evasion or avoidance of the law
    In February, freight traffic in the port of Barcelona decreased by -4.2%
    Barcelona
    Containers down -4.2% due to -18.8% reduction in transhipped boxes
    Complaint filed for fraud and corruption against Bolloré Group
    Paris
    Allegations relating to activities carried out in the context of logistics and port operations in Africa sold in 2022
    US FMC surveys seven major global maritime corridors
    Washington
    Federal agency threatens to ban Panamanian-flagged ships from US ports
    Last year, freight traffic in German ports began to grow again (+2.3%)
    Wiesbaden
    It is still lower than the pre-Covid level, as is container traffic alone which amounted to 13.3 million TEU (+4.9%)
    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
    Francesco Beltrano is the new general secretary of Uniport
    Rome
    He takes over from Paolo Ferrandino, who will continue to collaborate as a consultant
    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
    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
    Decarbonisation of maritime transport will be faster in the EU and the US
    DHL Acquires CRYOPDP
    Bonn/Nashville
    The company provides courier services for clinics and healthcare
    SAILING LIST
    Visual Sailing List
    Departure ports
    Arrival ports by:
    - alphabetical order
    - country
    - geographical areas
    Over a million to the port companies of Livorno and Piombino to acquire green vehicles
    Leghorn
    The ranking for admission to the PNRR-Next Gen Eu contributions has been published
    COSCO Shipping Development Co.'s container sales increased by +204.1% in 2024
    Shanghai
    The related turnover increased by +124.0%
    The call for funding for the purchase of electric vehicles in the ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado has been published
    Genoa
    Yang Ming Buys Three New 8,000 TEU Containerships
    Keelung
    They will be delivered between 2028 and 2029
    Construction of a cruise ship for Regent Seven Seas Cruises begins in Marghera
    Trieste
    Fincantieri will deliver the unit in 2026
    Federlogistica establishes operational offices in Spain and Brazil
    Genoa
    The aim is to go beyond theoretical cooperative relationships
    Over a Ton of Cocaine Seized in the Port of Gioia Tauro
    Reggio Calabria
    If placed on the market it would have generated over 187 million euros
    In 2024, the economic results of Interporto Padova reached record values
    Padua
    Revenues up +17%
    Three ceremonies at the Saint-Nazaire shipyard for three new MSC Cruises ships
    Geneva
    New flagship "MSC World America" delivered
    German railway company DB Cargo reduced losses in 2024
    Berlin
    Revenues down again. -9.0% drop in freight volumes
    NovaAlgoma orders second 38,000 dwt cement carrier in China
    Lugano
    It will be taken over in 2027
    Customs agreement between Italy and Brazil to facilitate trade
    Brasilia
    Mission of the Customs and Monopolies Agency in the South American nation
    A team from La Spezia Container Terminal in Rotterdam to test advanced technologies
    The Spice
    ECT Hutchinson Ports Training Center Visited
    The assembly of Genoese freight forwarders on Monday
    Genoa
    It will be held at the Palazzo della Borsa in Genoa
    Assarmatori, in Italy the ferry segment cannot bear the burden of the EU ETS in a very fragile market situation
    Brussels
    Messina: Protecting shipping from the ideological excesses of the Green Deal
    The website of the Port Authority Corps - Coast Guard has been renewed
    Rome
    It has become a single digital access point to documents and services
    In 2024, inland waterway freight transport in Germany increased by +1.2%
    Wiesbaden
    The volume, at 173.8 million tonnes, is the second lowest since 1990.
    APM Terminals Granted Port of New York - New Jersey Concession Renewal
    New York
    Contract for a period of 33 years. Investments of 500 million dollars are expected
    Experimentation of crane automation has begun at the Interporto Padova terminal
    Padua
    The interport company awarded the "Industria Felix 2025 Award"
    Container traffic in the port of Algeciras fell by -17.0% in February
    Algeciras
    Both import-export volumes and transhipment are decreasing
    New cruise company Crescent Seas has been founded in Miami
    Miami
    The fleet, initially consisting of one ship from Regent Seven Seas Cruises, will grow to five units within the next five years
    In 2024, the volume of vehicles transported by Wallenius Wilhelmsen's fleet decreased by -9.7%
    Oslo
    Traffic down on almost all global routes
    Agreement between Assoporti and Assologistica and the Florida trade, transport and port authorities
    Rome
    It was signed today
    In April a mission in Albania of The International Propeller Clubs - Italy
    Genoa
    It will take place on the 9th and 10th in Tirana and Durres
    COSCO Shipping Ports revenues rose to a record $1.5 billion in 2024 (+3.3%)
    Hong Kong
    In the fourth quarter alone, a decrease of -3.0%
    SO.RI.MA. (FHP group) granted a concession of an area of 125 thousand square meters in the port of Chioggia
    Venice
    Investments of 11.5 million euros expected over 25 years
    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
    Assagenti conference on the future of the profession of maritime agent and broker
    Genoa
    It will be held tomorrow in Genoa
    The annual conference "Programming, Operation and Management of Transport Networks" in Genoa
    Genoa
    It is dedicated to the transport and mobility sector
    ››› Meetings File
    PRESS REVIEW
    Damen Mangalia Unionists Protest Friday Against Possible Closure
    (The Romania Journal)
    Govt. to woo top ten shipping liners in world for Colombo port expansion
    (Daily Mirror)
    ››› Press Review File
    FORUM of Shipping
    and Logistics
    Relazione del presidente Nicola Zaccheo
    Roma, 18 settembre 2024
    ››› File
    Contship Italia’s intermodal network has been extended to the Gulf Terminal in La Spezia
    Melzo
    Connections with the inland terminals of Milan, Modena and Padua
    Container traffic in the port of Valencia grew by +15.2% last month
    Valencia
    The overall volume of goods handled increased by +6.8%
    The Northern Tyrrhenian Sea Port Authority obtains gender equality certification
    Leghorn
    It is the first Italian port authority to obtain this recognition
    Container traffic growth weakens at ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach
    Los Angeles/Long Beach
    Last month, increases of +2.6% and +13.4% respectively were recorded
    Assarmatori, the Italian government's position on the impact of the EU ETS on shipping and ports is good
    Rome
    Messina: fully understood the risks and distortions of European climate regulation
    PSA Italy's Genoa port terminals awarded anti-corruption certification
    Genoa
    The UNI EN ISO 37001 standard defines the requirements for an effective anti-corruption management system
    Assiterminal presents three projects for the sustainable transition of the Italian port sector
    Rome
    Work completed on docks 33 and 34 of the port of Civitavecchia
    Civitavecchia
    50,000 square meters of yards prepared
    The completion and doubling of the Pontremolese is the dream-nightmare of the La Spezia port community
    The Spice
    Fontana: Money is not found when enormous resources are channeled into railway lines of dubious utility
    Hanwha acquires 9.9% stake in shipbuilding company Austal
    Sydney
    Investment worth approximately 116 million US dollars
    The European fleet is growing but competing fleets are growing at a faster rate
    Brussels
    Raptis (European Shipowners): investing ETS revenues in clean shipping technologies and fuels
    Trasportounito has confirmed the national halt to the transport of goods
    Rome
    Proclaimed for the duration of five days from March 31st to April 4th
    Container traffic in Hong Kong port increased by +9.1% in February
    Hong Kong
    However, for the second time in the last 25 years, cargo volume was below one million TEU.
    Cargo traffic in Greek ports stable in Q3 2024
    Piraeus
    The increase in volumes transported on domestic routes has offset the decline in traffic with foreign countries
    At the Vado Ligure container terminal a 21,000 teu container ship fully loaded
    I go to Liguria
    The 400-meter-long Cosco Shipping Nebula has landed
    UIR proposes a permanent table for the development of intermodality
    Verona
    The main task is to build a project financing program.
    Restructuring plan approved for Spanish company Armas Trasmediterránea
    Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
    Creditors' appeal rejected
    The decline in cargo traffic at the port of Singapore worsened in February
    Singapore
    Containerized cargoes amounted to 27.4 million tons (-3.6%)
    Accelleron revenue surpassed $1 billion for the first time in 2024
    Baden
    Net profit up +63.1%
    Fincantieri has delivered the new ship Norwegian Aqua to Norwegian Cruise Line
    Trieste
    It has a gross tonnage of 156,300 tons.
    The tender for the first lot of the new electricity distribution network in the port of La Spezia has started
    The Spice
    Intervention worth 36.9 million euros
    In 2024 d'Amico International Shipping recorded a decline in time charter revenues
    Luxembourg
    -7.6% decline on the previous record year
    Global Ports Holding's port terminals handled record cruise traffic in 2024
    Istanbul
    The company's revenue increased by +21%
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