Assoporti anticipates its proposal of harbour reform



The Association of the Italian Ports (Assoporti) has introduced today own proposal of harbour reform that has announced to have supplied in these hours the government and that the association of the Harbour Authorities wishes is to bench mark of the reform defining some the operating contents in application of the lines guides of the so-called bill "in recent days Unblocks launched Italy" from the executive ( on 15 September 2014).

Main point of the proposal of Assoporti is the autonomy financial institution and the self-determination financial institution for the Harbour Authorities. "In order to realize the works that are of interest for the Country and that they are selected as such in the within of the strategic Plan of the logistics and the ports - it has explained the association - it comes destined from a part 1% of the Vat (than salt to 2% for the ports that will make system) through mechanisms that hold account: of the volumes of traffic goods and passengers and of the respective solid, liquid members (goods, in necks; passengers in international, national and local navigation; of the crocieristi); of the number and the tonnage of net tonnage of the ships arrived in the various segments of traffic (international navigation; intracomunitari and national connections); of the forecasts of the respective integrated plans of system and Town development plans. By the other parallel the resource to forms of public-private collaboration and the finance of project using also to guarantee of the operations of financing of the new works is previewed the docks of which the single Harbour Authorities they will have patrimonially to have in the competence ports and that they can become the instrument for the necessary lever financial institution".

The proposal previews also that the Harbour Authorities are free "to determine the rates for how much it concerns the taxes on the goods and those on the passengers, in coherence with its requirements of competitiveness and/or financing of works". Moreover the Harbour Authorities "can constitute that is participate to societies, operating also abroad, that they exercise accessory activities, instrumental or however connected to the entrusted institutional tasks to the same Authorities".

The association has specified that "to the base of these processes a structural change also in the legal and operating nature is placed of the Harbour Authorities". According to the outline of Assoporti, "the Harbour Authorities "exit from the ISTAT directory of Public Administration", they become public bodies to special ordering in all respects, so - it has emphasized the association - as for evidenced other with clarity in this period from more sentences also of the communitarian Law court. To govern them he is a president with widened powers that it has full competences in the nomination of the general secretary, of the directors more ports of call integrated under an only Harbour Authority, approves of the concessions of not advanced duration to the four years, coordinates all the activities carried out from subjects publics in port (putting into effect with accelerated procedures all the measures for the velocizzazione of the operations), anticipate the town development plan: ago to a thin directive Council that, in taking in fact the place of the Harbour Committee, is composed of a representative of the Region or of the Regions of which logistic the Harbour Authority and it takes part, one of the Municipality or the Municipalities, one of the Marine Authority, one of the Ministry of Infrastructures and one of the Ministry of the Atmosphere. The organism is this - it has specified Assoporti - than deliberates the harbour town development plans that are sent to the director general's office ports of the MIT that within and beyond 90 days does not have to approve of convening them appropriate conference of the services with appointed subjects (MIT with the Higher council of the Public works, Ministry of the Atmosphere with the commission VIA/VAS, Mibac, E regions Municipalities). The third organism in the Harbour Authorities is an advisory Commission in which they are you anticipate the representatives of the main operating subjects in port".

The proposal of Assoporti previews moreover that between the powers of the president of the Harbour Authority it figures also "the possibility to convene Conferences of the services in order to impose the measures of coordination between the several subjects publics apt to guarantee the efficiency of the port or the ports".

"Same formulation of administrative simplification - the association has emphasized - in order to resolve the problem of the dredgings and the iter of approval of these work. Here it is changed in radical way. The materials dredged in port, once verified the characterization, are excluded by the norm on the refusals if they are red-use in the same port for example in order to carry out filling work".

Sul customs forehead the proposal of Assoporti on one side previews "a customs real service h24, through the release of for staff customs mobility through a covered operation to cost zero from the greater returns guaranteed from the increment in the standards of efficiency and from the greater volumes of goods: Assoporti therefore previews - it has clarified the association - the obligation (through the immediate emanation of a directive by the Ministry of Health) of the marine Health and the other concurrent agencies to the clearance, to adapt to the effort of informatizzazione and efficientamento put into effect from Customs, previewing analogous forms to the clearance in sea (the so-called pre-clearing) and therefore to a drastic sveltimento of the operations in port".

Moreover - it has continued the association - "the reform will have to face the topic of the harbour job, recognizing that the high flexibility and the specialization conjugated to the requirement to guarantee maximums standard of safety and market take part integrating of the nature of the harbour activity. For this it will be necessary to stabilize the activities carried out from the subject of which to art. the 17 widening of the competences in matter of professional training and giving to the new Authorities more powers in matter than government of the labor market".

Moreover "the new Authorities, in current inferior number to, the most independent ones from the administrative point of view and stronger financially, will have to be subject of government of immense areas, in strong connection with the local truths, in a position to planning and programming infrastructural participations in the connected retroportuali areas to own market of reference. This can involve also international agreements and real investments also foreign countries in order to increase own ability to attract traffic. The logistic planning on extraharbour areas will have to characterize new state property extra territorial limits of administrative divisions of the new Harbour and logistic Authorities. To they, in the picture of a strong administrative autonomy, they will not have to be precluded, upgrading the current forecasts of law, the possibility of investments also in railway services and logistic infrastructures (to interpose to you, logistic plates, traffic centres etc.). Only innovative choices, that they look to Europe and to the international role of Italy - has emphasized Assoporti - they will be able stuffed to win the future challenges and to make to share the train of the development".

"Therefore - it has concluded the association - the national plan of the logistics and the transports that sees to the table all the subjects that represent the various modalities of transport, designing an industrial plan of the system Country that allows with the same ones to converse between they leaving own from the nodal point in the logistics of our country that sure is represented by the ports".

According to the president of Assoporti, Pasqualino Monti, this are "the moment of the courage". Courage - it has observed - of being pragmatic and to delineate a change scene that involves radical transformations, than does not exclude processes of amalgamation and integration of Harbour Authorities in European logic, that it produces quickly from a selection of the expense, the important conclusion investments already in yard and clearly a change of march in the governance, also through autonomy financial institution and self-determination financial institution. "He is indispensable - Monti has asserted - to concentrate the resources, also through integration processes, on those investments that can be useful to the Country, exceeding any logic of bell tower or distribution to rain. But it is equally important and essential to firstly proceed in the short times to the sburocratizzazione of the Harbour Authorities and therefore to the mass in field of the operating answers that the market asks to us, those relative ones to the efficientamento of the procedures of clearance of the goods", taking advantage of what Monti defines “the exceptional job that in so far as is carrying out the Agency of Customs” through the informatizzazione process, the only door and the pre-clearing.