the AGCM commina fines for 771 thousand euros to Moby and Italian Compagnia of Navigation



The Guarantor Authority of the Competition and Market (AGCM) has comminato endorsements pairs to 500 thousand and 271 thousand euros respective to the companies of Moby navigation and Italian Compagnia of Navigation - CIN (society participated from the same Moby) in order not to have complyd with the dispositions of the deliberation of the AGCM of june 2012, in particular with respect to the operating and tariff agreements, with which the Authority it had authorized the acquisition of Tirrenia di Navigazione by CIN ( on 22 June 2012). Last june, to closing of a preliminary investigation in order to verify the subsistence of restrictive behaviors of the competition, the ACGM had moreover deliberated a pecuniary endorsement almost 5,5 million euros at the expense of the same Moby and an endorsement of 2,6 million euros to the other companies GNV, SNAV and Marinvest ( on 14 June 2013)

The president of the Sardinia Region has received with satisfaction the last deliberation of the AGCM: "With this provision - Ugo Cappellacci has declared - the antitrust once again recognizes the fondatezza of our denunciations against the gentleman of the sea. It is the umpteenth test that, so as is, the system of the marine connections cannot go ahead. The right to mobility of the Sardinians cannot be degraded to benevolent and single eventual concession, but it must be totally effective and protect from adequate guarantees. For this - it has concluded Cappellacci - we cannot more being bound from decisions and contracts discussed and decided from others. In force of pronunciamento of Court Constitutional, that it has established that the Sardinia does not have to be only felt, but must be involved, and of the provisions of the antitrust, that they have assessed the fondatezza of our denunciations, we still claim a time the passage of the competences and the resources on the marine territorial continuity to the Region. We want to be to self-determine the choices in matter".

Evidencing that "the AGCM has censured - with reference to a single route (Civitavecchia - Olbia) - a presumed violation of the engagements introduced from CIN and approved of from AGCM in June 2012", Tirrenia - Italian Company of Navigation it has specified that, "in spite of the complexity of the procedure of the Authority antitrust, that has carried to the privatization of Tirrenia, the brevity of the times in which is closed and the difficulties lived from the field" the company are declared serene and convinced, "also for the presence of punctual documentary evidences that confirm as the society has always and correctly represented to the AGCM modality of execution of the measures that it would have practiced, than legitimacy of the CIN acts ready it will be recognized by the competent administrative judges. Of the pairs - it has emphasized Tirrenia - CIN - we are convinced to have I churn in the maximum respect of the customers who have travelled with Tirrenia".

From part its association of the CNA-Fita road haulage, remembering to have in order before marked in the 2011 to the Antitrust problem of the increase of the rates of the marine services from and for the Sardinia and having invited the same Authority to deepen and to verify how much same happening, it has found that "a Sardinian hauler with single means medium in a year succeeds in to use 200 naval passages altogether spending more than 90 thousand euros. This - Cinzia Franchini has denounced national president CNA-Fita - is the price that the Sardinian road haulage wage for having commercial continuity, a price salatissimo for being able to work". "After the beloved tolls - it has continued Cinzia Franchini - here confirmed also the dear one you ferry. For this minister Lupi does not have to linger beyond, but he urgently convenes the table with the associations signers of that protocol that they give quickly, 28th November, characterized the requirement of a focus on the islands Sardinia and Sicily. Of words many have been some expenses and today, with the regional elections near, CNA-Fita does not intend to lower perspectives visionaries". According to CNA-Fita, "this that serves is timely provisions, realizes immediately and spendable". For the association, "today, regarding the unjustifiable increments as well as indefensible, the costs minimums of safety do not represent a useful bank for the road haulage that it continues to being hit in its operativity losing every day competitiveness margins. It is well to remember - it has specified the association - than if moreover specific of the Sardinia the same costs minimums do not contemplate the ferries and all this must stuffed to reflect regarding the requirement to characterize new mechanisms of defense respect to a dear one costs (tolls, ferries, fuel) that it continues to concentrate on little and fundamental voices. On these voices a credible political answer is urgent".