the Italian government applies to the national airports the criterion of classification adopted from the EU for the knots of the transeuropea net of the transports TRIES

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be certainly someone that will suppose that the idea to adopt for the Italian airports the criterion of classification used from the EU in order to catalogue the ports and the other nodes of the transeuropea net of the transports TRIES is used by the ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports in order to satisfy the initiative lack that characterizes the ministry, sonnacchioso also under the guide of Corrado Passera.

will be someone other that in this will find confirmation of the inability of the Italian governments to formulate norms and to assume decisions, being impotent or conniventi in it confronts of the groups of being able social or economic that fragment national the civil woven one, and will find also new evidence of the more and more marked proclivity of the Italian governments to leave this task to the legislators and the executive power (though limited) of the European Union.

will be someone that will say - and we with they - than the government of an Eu country holding cannot be esimere account of the indications of the European Community in defining proposed legislative valid in national within and meanwhile consistent to the communitarian guidelines.

will be at last talaltri - and we are in agreement also with costoro - that they will reproach to the precedence governs Italians not to have supplied until to hour managing an action like this, face to reduce the fragmentation of national the airport system, and that, congratulating itself with the government guided from Mario Monti and the minister Passera for the initiative, they will wish that an analogous proposal is formulated also for the ports.

Be that as it may, certainly is that the plan of division of the Italian airports contained in the Action of address for the definition of the national Plan for the introduced airport development today from the ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports traces pairs pairs that introduced to end 2011 from the EU commission in order to subdivide the elements and the parts of the transeuropea net TRY on the base of their strategic importance for the economic and social development of the EU(

19of October 2011).

the Action, like however emphasized from the same Italian ministry, recepisce in fact the communitarian guidelines let alone the governmental addresses and parliamentarians. Draft of a provision - it has evidenced the ministry - "attended from 26 years" that "places the bases for reorders organic of the airport field under the infrastructural profile, managerial and of the quality of the services".

"With the Action of address - the minister of Infrastructures and Transports has declared, Corrado Passera - we overwhelm a serious gap of our Country that lasted from 26 years. The provision is an instrument important in order to start reorders of a strategic field for we, favoring of the development and the recovery of efficiency. We concentrate efforts and investments on the airports that re-enter in the European infrastructural plans and, at the same time, we confirm the role of the territorial ports of call that important local truths serve. Through the rationalization of the services, a plan of infrastructuring to medium period, the constitution of airport nets, Italy can indeed aim at to having a system to the vanguard and competitive to international level, avoiding it wastes of public resources. The collaboration with the Regions - it has concluded Passera - will be fundamental".

the ministry has remembered that currently in Italy 112 airports are operating, of which 90 opened to single civil traffic (43 opened to commercial flights, 47 to civil flights not of line), 11 military ones opened to the civil traffic (three opened ports of call to commercial flights, eight to civil flights not of line), 11 exclusively to military use.

the first scope of the Action of address is the location of the airports of national interest with the objective to reduce the fragmentation and to favor a process of reorganization and efficientamento. The Action - it has specified the ministry - "formula a proposal of location of the airports of national interest, that they will constitute the strategic skeleton on which founding the development of the field in the next few years". The definition of "Core is previewed therefore Network", on the falsariga of that characterized from the EU for the European infrastructural nodes, that it includes the Italian airports considered of strategic importance to level EU as relevant to primary cities or nodes. The main net is constituted by the airship stations of Bergamo Orio al Serio, Bologna, Genoa, Milan Linate, Milan Malpensa, Naples, Palermo, Roma Fiumicino, Turin, Venice.

then is designed to a "Comprehensive Network" that it per year comprises the airports with a advanced traffic to million passengers (that is ports of call of Alghero, Bari, Brindisi, Cagliari, Catania, Florence, Lamezia Terme, Olbia, Pisa, Roma Ciampino, Trapani, Treviso and Verona), those with a advanced traffic to 500 thousand fleeting but characterized from characteristic detailed lists territorial which the oneness in the regional within or because of service to a territory of insufficient accessibility (Ancona, Pescara, Reggio Calabria and Trieste) and two considered airports indispensable in order to guarantee the territorial continuity (Lampedusa and Pantelleria).

At last the third category comprises two airports that do not take part of the transeuropee nets. Sono Rimini, than - he has specified the ministry - has a next traffic to million passengers and trend in increase, and Salerno, that it is destined to delocalizzare the traffic that currently gravitates on Naples.

the ministry has explained that "for these ports of call it is previewed is the maintenance of the national concession, is the solution of the relative criticalities to the release of the concession in management total, where it is lacking. The airports of national interest - it has specified the ministry - could moreover be interested from a infrastructuring program that of it upgrades the ability, accessibility, the intermodalità, beginning from Roma Fiumicino (realization of a new track, potenziamento of the areas of boarding and the Terminals), Malpensa and Venice (improvement of accessibility of the structures and the interconnection with the high speed). The potenziamento of various other ports of call is previewed in mean-along period. The airports of national interest will not have to be instead transferred to the competent Regions, than of it they will estimate the various destination of use and/or the possibility of closing".

"the Action of address, moreover - it has still specified the ministry - does not preview the realization of new ports of call. Such principle is worth, for example for Grazzanise (considered the ability to Naples Capodichino to support ulterior increases of traffic and the possibility to use the port of call of Salerno) and Viterbo (whose investments could be used for the infrastructural potenziamento of Fiumicino)".

the Action of address previews also the adoption of economic-financial plans of re-balance, with the objective to do so as that the societies that manage the Italian airports reach within short term adequate levels of patrimonializzazione, "necessary condition - it has emphasized the ministry - for the release of the concession total, as expected moreover from the enforced norm". The ministerial proposal evidences also the opportunity "to proceed to the progressive dismissione of social quotas from the public bodies and to favor the income of private capitals".

the provision has the scope to favor also the constitution of "airport nets" managed by an only subject, "to the aim - it has explained the ministry - to for example achieve advantages on the front of the differentiation and specialization tenured in serving the same territory with infrastructures dedicated for traffic type (: low-costs, cargo, charter, seasonal distribution of the traffic) and the optimization in the acquisition of services and assets from supplier third party with economies of scale for the benefit of all the airports in net". Moreover it is previewed from the ministry, in connection with the other competent agencies, a series of rationalizations, between which a procedural simplification for a quicker approval of program contracts, a review of the timetable of opening of the airports and/or the timetables of supply of the air navigation services, with possible night closing of the airports with limited traffic or criticality of environmental impact, the modification of the aerial control service passing from a service of tower to a AFIS service (Flight information service Airport) in the airports with insufficient commercial traffic, a remodeling of the relative rates to the services of assistance in phase of takes off and landing, a rationalization of the Generali services to the customers with the redefinition of the human resources and destined financial institutions to the services antifire, the customs safety controls and to other types of services.

the ministry has specified that the Action of address will be time sent to the permanent Conference State-Regions and Independent Provinces for the necessary understanding and, successively, will be adopted with an appropriate one decrees from the president of the Republic, while the proposals of rationalization of the services will be from quickly object of operating tables between the competent ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports and the other administrations (Enac, Enav, other ministries, E regions local authorities).

“the Action that today we send to the Conference State-Regions - has found the viceministro to Infrastructures and Transports, Mario Ciaccia - it is another important dowel of the normative modernization that, in the course of this year, we have got ahead on the infrastructural front. The proposal of Plan that we have formulated from finally application to the principles of the European and national norm of field, proposing a model of airport development of great breath. This plan, that it is therefore I yield of along normative process, can be an opportunity important in order to reform and to give organicity to the airport field”.

Who knows that, refuting its supposed apaticità, before by now the imminent takeover of a new government, the ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports and its current holder Corrado Passera they do not astonish to us introducing an analogous provision for the Italian ports. We remain in it judder attesa.

Bruno Bellio