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the European shipowners are not satisfied of the proposed new legislative of the EU commission on the ports
the ECSA wonders because they do not include the cargo-handling, the services to the passengers and the harbour job
May 27, 2013
The shipowners are not satisfied of the new proposed legislative in harbour matter introduced last week by the EU commission ( on 23 May 2013). The European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA) has complained in fact that such proposals do not take in consideration the activities of boarding and disembarkation the goods, neither the services to the passengers and not even the harbour job.
The association of the European shipowners has specified to have appreciated the fact that the proposed text recognizes that the principle of the free performance of the services must be applied to the suppliers of harbour services and that rules are proposed in order to guarantee a fair competition, but - the general secretary of the association has explained, Alfons Guinier - "ECSA is surprised to find that the cargo-handling, the harbour job and the services to the passengers are not covered by the text of the legislative proposal". The association has specified that the astonishment derives among other things from the fact that a realized study on behalf of the EU commission, that it is published recently, "documents wide that, even if in many ports of the EU the harbour job works very well, in various ports sussistono many practical restrictive".
Moreover the ECSA, also appreciating the reference of the EU commission to the necessity to start a social dialogue, has manifested regret because the Commission prefers to wait for and to examine this that will gush from the social dialogue between the social parts and has remembered that the Commission has announced that will carry out a first appraisal of the progresses only completed in 2016. "The application of the principles of the freedoms of the Treaty - it has found the association - constitutes a key question for the harbour users and it would not have to be only faced in the picture of the social dialogue in which they are not involved".
ECSA has instead expressed appreciation because the harbour shipowners and the other users must be consulted with respect to the coordination of the harbour services, to the connections with the outback, the administrative simplification and in merit to others important issues.
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The shipowners are not satisfied of the new proposed legislative in harbour matter introduced last week by the EU commission 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
