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Confetra, the sentence of death sentence of the rail shipment of the goods is about to become definitive
the Confederation in extremis invokes an participation to the Senate in order to block the effect of an amendment to the bill "Competitiveness"
July 23, 2014
Design of Legge n. 1541
Amendment 29.100
To article 29, codicil 3 is replaced by the following one:
"3. It is made prohibition of traslare the greater burdens deriving from the application of anticipates disposition on the prices and the tolls practiced in the within of the universal service. The definition of the tolls for the use of the railway infrastructure not re-entering in the universal service, holds account of the greater operating costs deriving from anticipates disposition second a valid criterion of gradualness for the first three years, in not advanced measure to 50% in the year 2015, not advanced to 70% in the year 2016, not advanced one to 80% in year 2017.The Authority for transport supervises on the observance of the dispositions of which to the first period, also by means of assessments to champion, and on the corrected application of the norm on the market."
Illustrative relation The precedence formulation of the norm previewed the prohibition of only traslare the greater burdens on the prices and the tolls of () the universal service, attributing in such a way all the weight of the disposition on the services to market is travellers who goods. The proposed norm previews a temporal gradualness in a position to diluting in the time the effects of the alignment of the price of the energy at the price of market, previewing a tariff regulation that a partial recovery in the first three years allows.
"The sentence of death sentence of the rail shipment of the goods is about to be issued in definitive way". The denunciation the General Confederation Italiana of the Transports and the Logistics (Confetra) invoking an participation today in extremis to the Senate. The Confederation explains that "article 29 of the bill "Competitiveness" involves an increase of the toll of the rail shipment of the goods of beyond 30% to km: a cost - Confetra emphasizes - indefensible for a section that already finds it hard to being in competition with other modalities of transport".
"During conversion to the Senate, after the hopes of the days slid for some amendments I suppressed you of the disposition - Confetra specifies - today the cold shower: the only remained amendment is that of the reporter, senator Massimo Mucchetti, and previews that the increase will be, however spread in three years from 2015 to 2017".
"I cannot believe - the president of Confetra asserts, Nereo Marcucci - than government and parliament does not realize of the damage that procures to the Country a similar disposition. Disincentivare the rail shipment of the goods goes oltretutto in opposite sense to how much it wants Europe and it is singular that Italy assumes this position own in the current semester of presidency of the Council EU".
"Europe - Confetra remembers - in fact has already deliberated with the assent of Italy to succeed in to carry out with intermodal techniques 30% of the traffic goods to 2030 and 50% to 2050. A objective that for our Country would become impossible if reverse were not made on article 29 of I decree competitiveness".
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