ESPO, sussistono the foundations in order not to introduce a new European legislation on the ports



Sussistono the foundations in order not to introduce a new European legislation on the ports. It supports the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO today) commenting the outcome of a public audition held from the EU commission with the representatives of the harbour organizations and with the experts of the Member States that the process of review of politics of the European Union for the ports closes formally that European commissioner Siim Kallas has started in the autumn of 2011.

"The review - it has specified the general secretary of ESPO, Patrick Verhoeven - has been a good idea as the current normative picture of the EU for the ports goes back by now to 2007. But we consider that this picture, than is based on measures and not legislative instruments, constitute a good base still today in order to act. Instead - Verhoeven has explained - the Commission seems to imply that the initiative of 2007 has not worked. We would have favorite to discuss about the fact that is not offered a real possibility to it. The inability to produce lines guides on the aids of Been about to the ports - the ESPO representative has denounced - is only an example. In spite of a unanimous demand by the field and a formal promise by the Commission, these lines guide up to now have not been realized".

ESPO, therefore, considers that the Commission does not have sufficient motivations in order to justify the necessity to launch a new legislation on the ports. The association of the European ports deems that the first results of the consultations with the parts interested lead in the course of the procedure started in the 2007 demonstrate, on the contrary, "a high degree of satisfaction for the performances of the European ports".

"We, in any case - he has continued Verhoeven - do not succeed to understand because issues as the separation of the institutional and commercial activities of the Harbour Authorities, the calculation of the harbour taxes and the coordination of the investments publics are evidenced as important normative challenges". The ESPO general secretary has invited the EU commission to promote and to define a greater certainty of the right in the cases in which they manifest themselves of the problems. "Moreover - it has added - the Commission would have to address the field towards best pratice and the self-regulation".

With a message on Twitter, Verhoeven has synthetized the ESPO position: "the Commission - it has clarified - takes in consideration three options, from simplest to the most articulated. Without a doubt ESPO is in favour of the first".