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Signed to Taranto the protocol of understanding for the activities of coordination between operating Public Administration in port
the administrations have been engaged to collaborate between they and to carry out own activity in tight coordination
October 22, 2012
Today near the center of the Harbour Authority of Taranto, the protocol of understanding for the Activities of coordination between operating Public Administration in the port of Taranto has been undersigned. The protocol, that we publish below, is introduced on initiative of the president of the harbour agency, Sergio Prete, according to art. the 8, codicil 6 of Legge n. 84/1994, and preview the adhesion of the Harbour office, the Regional Agency Environmental protection (ARPA), the Agency of Customs, the Phytosanitary Office (Region Apulia), the Office of Marine Health, the Office Veterinary of Port/Place of Frontier Inspection, the Firemen, the Consortium for Industrial Development (ASI) and the Harbour Authority of Taranto.
With the signature of the protocol to the aim to exceed the problematic municipalities, to share the objectives of development of the port of Taranto and the relative competitive adaptation of the procedures and the offered services. "Such action - it has emphasized the Harbour Authority - constitutes the start of a vituous distance face to characterize collegialmente a distance in order to increase the current levels of quality of the services harbour publics".
In the course of the Sergio Prete encounter it has mentioned that the new bill of reform of the harbour legislation - already fired from the Senate and in phase of approval to the Chamber - previews the constitution of a real Conference of Services between Public Administration that operates in every Italian port.
For how much the Jonian port of call concerns, moreover, a next step aerobic will regard the creation of a Port Community System, managerial an informative process/, that it will have the scope to put in net the operating agencies in port and to create a easier and fast access to the procedures and the services offered to the operators.
In occasion of the signature of the protocol the president of the Harbour Authority has thanked all the police - some of which they have assisted, in quality of audiences, to the ceremony of subscription of the protocol - evidencing of the determining role to the aims of the control and safety of the activities carried out in harbour within.
UNDERSTANDING PROTOCOL
ACTIVITY OF COORDINATION BETWEEN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
OPERATING IN THE PORT OF TARANTO
The Parts:
Harbour office of Taranto
Regional agency Environmental protection
Agency of Customs - Office of Customs of Taranto
Region Apulia - Phytosanitary Office
Office of Marine Health
Office Veterinary of Port/Place of Frontier Inspection
Firemen
Consortium Area Industrial Development (ASI)
Harbour authority of Taranto
PREMISED AND CONSIDERED CHE
The Port of Taranto is recognized as Core Port from the inserted European Union and as terminal of the European Corridor n. 5 Helsinki - the Valetta.
The Jonian port of call, for the potentialities of ulterior development of the traffic, not only containers, is considered strategic for the development of the national economy.
A substantial increment of the offer of the services would allow an incentive for new takeovers of productive activities in harbour areas and retroportuali profits with the realization and functionality of the Logistic Plate and the Distripark.
The insertion of the port of Taranto in the containerized international traffics has made to emerge, also, in a perspective of territorial competition with the other Countries that appear on the Mediterranean, the urgent necessity to adapt to the requirements dictated from the new scenes the infrastructural equipments of the port of call let alone the connections with street the railway national nets/.
The model of the ports of the Europe North evidences the positive results of the choice strategic to manage areas equipped for the distribution of services in the logistic cycle, by now more and more voted to the outsourcing and raises fundamental in the business processes.
The perspectives and the potentialities of the Port of Taranto depend, today, from the attainment of the objective to go beyond the transhipment and to create a port of third generation that allows to offer to the commercial operators a port of call equipped from the point of view of the logistics integrated in the launches segments of intermodal transport and the services to the goods.
With art. the 46 of Legge n. 214/2011 are granted the possibility to the Harbour Authorities to constitute, of understanding with the interested Regions, Provinces, Municipalities and managers of railway infrastructures, "Harbour Logistic Systems" with accomplishment in the c.d. "Terminal Logistic" of the customs services.
With D.P.C.M on February 17, 2012, in consideration of the national and international strategic importance of the Port of Taranto, the President of the Harbour Authority is named Commissioner Straordinario, whom provided with substitutive powers, for the realization in quick times of a series of infrastructural participations, also in the field of the logistics and the intermodalità, indispensable for the development of the port of call.
Besides the participations of infrastructural adaptation, in order to return the Port of competitive Taranto, he is indispensable to upgrade and to develop to the activities and the services offered private publics and, adapting to the changed them requirements.
The activity offered from operating Public Administration in the port of Taranto is of particular importance for the protection of the common good, the publics interests, safety and the public health.
Such activity, in its complex, assumes detail strategic importance for the development of the Port of Taranto in a picture of competition and competition with other national and international ports of call.
For such motivations, it is considered necessary to jointly reach to a coordination of the activities carried out in the Port of Taranto from the PP.AA to the aim to share the objectives of development and the adaptation of the procedures and the services offered to the operators, eventually exceeding problematic municipalities, also of immaterial character.
Such coordination also becomes necessary, in the respect of the norms of reference of each of the Parts, in order to return the administrative action and the services offered in harbour within ulteriorly effective and efficient, all in the perspective to realize a "system" that is able, in its complex, to be confronted, with the most advanced national and international harbour truths.
The Harbour Authority, so as already made in other ports, has the intention of equip the Port of Taranto, in the short possible term, of a Port Community System.
Art. the 8, codicil 3, lett. f) of the law 28 January 1994 n. 84 and next modifications and integrations, assign to the President of the Harbour Authority the coordination of the activities carried out in the port from Public Administration;
all that premising,
THEY AGREE HOW MUCH FOLLOWS
Art. 1
In the respect of the legality principle, of the institutional roles and the specific competences, the Parts are engaged to collaborate closely between they and to carry out own activity in tight coordination for the overcoming of problematic municipalities, also of immaterial character, for sharing of the objectives of development of the Port of Taranto and the competitive adaptation of the procedures and the services offered to the operators.
Art. 2
Al fine to facilitate such activity is instituted permanent a technical table, composed from a delegate for every Part coordinated underwriter and from the Harbour Authority, in order to face and to propose solutions to the problematic ones of common interest, to the aim to promote the development of the traffics of the Port of Taranto.
The technical table, will meet of norm every once two months near the center of the Harbour Authority.
ART. 3
The Parts, will communicate to the Harbour Authority of Taranto, quickly after the subscription of anticipate Protocol, the nominative case of own representative who will participate to the encounters and that of a substitute.
For every reunion, synthetic minutes will be written up, than the Parts they will agree.
Bed, approved of and undersigned
Taranto, 22 October 2012
For the Harbour office of Taranto
For the Regional Agency Environmental protection
For the Agency of Customs - Office of Customs of Taranto
For the Region Apulia - Phytosanitary Office
For the Office of Marine Health
For the Office Veterinary of Port/Place of Frontier Inspection
For the Firemen
For the Consortium Area Industrial Development (ASI)
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