Brazilian president Rousseff has promulgated the new law on the ports



Yesterday with a bill the Federal President of the Republic of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, has promulgated the new law on ports repealing ten of the 55 dispositions of the passed legislative text to the sieve of the Parliament through the exercise of the presidential veto. The which wrote off provisions refer to devices mainly that they manage I renew and the delay of the harbour concessions and that they guarantee the competition. Between these, the regarding disposition the delay of the signed contacts beginning from 1993, that the extension of such allowed contracts on condition that the concessionaire promuovesse the investments for the potenziamento and the modernization of the ports. According to Dilma Rousseff, such disposition went beyond the enforced terms of the contract and introduced contrary measures of safeguard to the expansion and the competition in the field. The contracts could not therefore be renewed automatically, but the their eventual delay will be decided by the government.

Other vetoes have hit the disposition that introduced the concept of "terminalista industry", that it is written off in order to place fine to the distinction between handling of cargos own and third party, rimuovendo therefore the impediment to the effettuazione of terminalistiche activities by shipowning companies, let alone the disposition that the allocation in exclusive right of the services of vigilance in harbour within to harbour guards assigned and that which previewed the creation of a registry of the professional qualifications for the harbour workers.

"The vetoes - Gleisi Hoffmann has explained, minister of the Civil House - have been lie in wait for in order to guarantee the main scope of the law, that it is that to guarantee the opening and the competitiveness of the field and to eliminate any legal uncertainty". Gleisi Hoffmann has announced that the government provvederà to the presentation of the regulations of the new law within next the 15 days.

According to the forecasts, the new law will allow within the end of this year the effettuazione of contests for the allocation of 52 harbour areas in presses of the port of Santos and in the State of Pará and to initially attract investments for about two billions of real (720 million euros). Moreover from the next year 107 harbour areas in all could be under way contests for others the nation attracting ulterior investments for 25 billion real.