the State Audit Court finds delays and inefficiencies in the gestoria activity of the harbour works



The Section control room on the management of the administrations of the State of the State Audit Court has lead an investigation on the "Expenses for the realization of infrastructural works of widening, modernization and requalification of the ports (capitulates 7261 and 7274 of the ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports)".

The State Audit Court has announced that, "relatively to the works managed from the several Harbour Authorities, the preliminary investigation has evidenced marked profiles of consisting criticalities, in particular, in the accumulated delays in the performance of the participations, a meaningful part of which does not turn out concluded to beyond a decade from the adoption of the programming actions and from the assumption of the limits of engagement for a total of financings publics almost 1.500 billion euros (in average, about 38% of the works financed with laws n. 488/1999 and n. 388/2000 and almost 50% of those financed with law n. 166/2002 must still be completed)".

"In purpose - it has explained the State Audit Court - the various factors are evidenced that have affected heavy the tempistica of realization of the works: attitudes of substantial inertia or inadequate gestoria ability to some independent agencies, proliferating of environmental constraints, the wide relative litigation to the contract contests, judicial procedures with seizure of entire areas interested to the progettuali work, criticalities and procedural delays in the phases of programming and pluriennali infrastructure performance. Anomalies are, then, emerged from the accounting analysis of the chapters of expense 7274 and 7261, both characterized from the systematic accumulation of residual and meaningful percentages of resources gone in perenzione, as well as, for chapter 7261 (destined to finance managed the infrastructural and manutentivi participations from the Provveditorati to the OO.PP.), from a drastic reduction of the appropriations anniversaries and from the difficulty to supply to the payment of the delivered work, because of insufficient equipments of case".

These delays and inefficiencies in the gestoria activity of the harbour works have induced the Section of the State Audit Court to show "the requirement of a deepened general reflection on the number and the spaces of autonomy of the agencies actuators, in the perspectives to favor economies of scale in the investments and the management". It has been, also, rimarcata "the necessity to increase the effectiveness of the monitoring carried out from the Head office for the ports of the ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports and to exceed procedural criticalities and problems of coordination between the same ministry and that of the Economy and Finances, in order to return available contributions pluriennali, already previewed and financed from the law n. 216/2006, for the realization of immediately cantierabili works".