In Europe - ETF denunciation - the aids of State to the shipping do not create of places of work and they do not improve the formation



Today the European Transport Workers' Federation (ETF) has accused the EU commission "to have lost the gold occasion to connect the aids of Been about to the industry of the shipping to the creation of places of work and the marine improvement of the formation for the communitarian ones". According to the unions of the marine ones, in fact, this "is an occasion lacked for the exploitation of the success of positive measures for the European marine transport and in order to guarantee an increase of places of work for the Europeans".

ETF has accused the EU commission to have chosen to leave the guidelines for the aids of State unchanged the marine field. The union has remembered that the original intentions of such guidelines were to stimulate the shipowners to newly place own ships under the flags of the Member States of the EU and to preserve the marine know-how-how in marine Europe valuing and protecting the occupation of the Europeans. Moreover ETF has remembered that the same Commission had then recognized the necessity to improve such guidelines and to examine "the feasibility of a strengthening of the tie between the job for marine European and the aids". "Nevertheless, in spite of these reassurances - ETF has denounced - it is amazing to see that the Commission has chosen the option "not to make nothing" leaving the guidelines unchanged". "This - the secretary for the marine transport of ETF has commented, Philippe Alfonso - is a hard blow for the field who will allow with the companies of navigation to continue to meanwhile take advantage of the tonnage tax for their scopes giving little or nothing in exchange".

For the union, after four years, in fact, are "crushing tests that the current regime of aids of State, is as fiscal incentives - as for example the tax on the tonnage and the subsidies on the costs of labor and the abatement of tax on the job - has had the minimal impact on the formation and the occupation of the European citizens". According to ETF, there is the absolute necessity see again the modalities with which such fiscal incentives they are used. "That's why - it has remembered the union - ETF repeatedly invited the Commission to take advantage of the review of the guidelines on the aids of State of 2011 in order to allow the concession of subsidies on condition that the beneficiaries of the aid demonstrate that the money of the European contributors is translate in opportunity of job for the citizens of the European Union, is for the sailors that for the officials, and in more formation, included more you mail for the cadets".

ETF has announced that it will publicly address the European commissioner for competition, Joaquín Almunia, "in order to make to understand it - it has explained the union - than is not a unreasonable demand to insist on the fact that the fiscal incentives would have to generate an increase of places of work for the European citizens, otherwise in Europe of it will suffer the competences on which I found the European marine cluster".