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the opinion of the Committee of the Regions on the proposal of regulations on the harbour services
It is introduced to Brussels from the mayor of Livorno Cosimi
November 29, 2013
The mayor of Livorno, Alessandro Cosimi, in quality of vice president of the Bureau of the Committee of the Regions, has introduced as reporter to Brussels the opinion adopted from the Committee of the Regions on the proposal of regulations for the access at the market of the harbour services and the transparency financial institution proposed from the EU commission. The opinion of the Committee, between the main points, exhorts to leave margins to the Member States in order to answer to the requirements of own ports, to clarify with urgency the norm on the aids of Been about to infrastructures, rejects the creation of a new European authority for the ports that only new bureaucracy would create and invites to exclude from the field of application of the norm the technical-nautical services.
"Now - Cosimi has declared - the managerial models extremely are differentiated and rigid rules risk to penalize or to favor local situations, hindering a competition balanced between the European ports of call and the necessary recovery of efficiency". "The opinion - it has added the mayor of Livorno - test to define the just balance between the necessity to respect the local experiences and that to guarantee, at the same time, an adequate normative homogeneity for the harbour field".
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