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Brussels authorizes investments publics for 71 million euros in the port of Salerno
the financing comes from deep regional the Europeans
March 27, 2014
The EU commission has authorized the financing of a project of modernization of the port of Salerno with investments regional deep coming pairs to 71,1 million euros from the Europeans having considered it in compliance with the norms of the European Union in matter of aids of State. The investment will allow with the Harbour Authority of of the Campania port of call to guarantee the income in port in conditions of safety to ships of greater dimensions being widened the harbour mouth, dredging to the seabed and the channel of access to the port. The project previews also the consolidation of part of a dock. The intention to finance the project of the Harbour Authority of Salerno is notified by Italy to the EU last month.
The EU commission has established that the investment will contribute to preserve a range wide of integrated marine connections in the EU and that the public financing is necessary in order to stimulate the Harbour Authority to realize the project, than cannot be put into effect without a public aid from the moment that the previewed clean entrances do not cover the investment costs. Brussels has explained that the amount of the financing is limited lessened necessary in order to return the investment possible and that the project will involve a distortion of the limited competition because the port of Salerno is a small regional port that serves mainly the Campania region.
In estimating moreover if the future harbour operators will receive an undue economic advantage from the realization of the project, the EU commission has found that the contracts of concession for the use of the harbour structures will be adjudicated by means of public, opened and not discriminatory procedures of contract, in the respect of the dispositions previewed from the right of the EU and Italy in matter of contracts publics, and therefore has concluded that the future harbour operators will not benefit according to some aid of State of the norms of the EU and that the same one is worth for the final users of the port of Salerno, that they will pay market prices for the services offered near the port.
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