Pitruzzella (Authority Antitrust): it is necessary to activate the Authority of regulation of the transports



In order to improve the competitiveness of the field of the rail shipment in Italy it is necessary to activate the Authority of regulation of the transports. It has emphasized today the president of the Guarantor Authority of the Competition and Market (AGCM), Giovanni Pitruzzella, in the course of a audition near the Commission productive Activities, commerce and tourism of the Chamber of Deputies.

Pitruzzella has remembered that in topic of services local publics, but with particular reference to the services of transport of transport of people and goods, railway and on rubber, already in the signalling sent last October to the government and the parliament to the aim of the predisposition of the bill anniversary for the market and the competition the 2013 Authority Antitrust had emphasized the importance of the institution of the Authority of regulation of the transports. "As famous, after beyond a year from its institution - it has emphasized the president of the Antitrust - the Authority still has not been installed. Such lack hung above all on the railway field, where to the same subject he is riconducibile the net and the management of the service. Only the effective operativity of an independent authority will be able to guarantee the access to the net to transparent, fair conditions and not discriminatory and, therefore, more corrected I confront competitive in the fleeting services of transport and goods".

"In the perspective to widen the most possible segments than activities opened to I confront competitive - it has continued Pitruzzella - is necessary to normative resolve the insufficient clarity in order to the discipline to apply in case of confidence of the service of rail shipment. The national norm would have to preview that the local authority arranges of autonomy in choosing the various modalities of management of the service. Mainly: the development of the service in regime of free economic initiative; the confidence in exclusive right with contest; the confidence to a mixed society, whose private associate is chosen with contest - with contextual obligation to demand a pre-emptive opinion to the Authority of regulation of the transports if the agency does not intend to make at the market resorted and, therefore, to the free competition for the management of the service. In the demand for seeming the agency it will have in competition to indicate the specific conditions of efficiency that return the management in "exception" to the not disadvantageous competition for the citizens, regarding the modality".

"Last, in conformity with previewed how much from the communitarian norm - it has concluded Pitruzzella - he is favorable the introduction of compensating withdrawals of money to the new subjects entering - as rights of exercise, or royalty, for the benefit of the public body it subsidize -, in the cases of proven alteration of the economic balance of service contracts object of public compensations. This to the aim to facilitate the opening of the markets without, at the same time, compromising the economic balance of a service contract".

While the association of the Adoc consumers has exhorted the government to invest deeply on the improvement of infrastructures, in particular on the transport on track and via ship, to the aim of I throw again economic and social of the Country. "Without an adequate and capillary infrastructure net - it has found the president of the Lamberto Santini association - it is difficult to imagine I throw again economic. It is necessary to invest in concrete terms on the improvement of the rail shipment and marine, it is relatively to the transport of people that of goods, is to territorial level that national. Improving these two types of transport the cost of the goods would be pulled down from a part, than today they travel almost exclusively on rubber, with the highest expenses because of elevated the expenditures for fuels, from the other would create new places of work. He is therefore urgent that the government focuses its attention on this point, if he does not intend to remain behind regarding the other Countries".