The Constitutional Court has rejected the tax on the sonorous emissions for the carriers airplane of the Lazio Region



The Italian Board Airline Representatives (IBAR), association that has between the scopes primary that to safeguard the interests of the airlines that operate in the Italian market, has received with satisfaction sentence 13/2015 of the Constitutional Court, deposited 13th February, that it rejects the tax on the sonorous emissions for the carriers airplane introduced from the Region Latium. "They are much content of the obtained result - the president of the IBAR, Umberto Solimeno has commented - because thanks to this sentence the airlines will be able calmly to continue to invest on our territory without fear of ulterior increases of costs".

IBAR has emphasized that this "goes in favor of the right to mobility of the citizens that is primary inspiration of mission of the carriers the airplane and in particular of the IBAR that they give years it is engaged actively for protecting the rights of the travellers".

Article 5 of the law n. 2 on April 29, 2013 of the Region Latium establish, to the sixth codicil, the measure of the regional tax on the sonorous emissions of civil aircrafts (IRESA), previewing differentiated shares, variable from a minim of 1,60 euros for ton, until to a maximum of 2,5 euros for ton, to apply to the deprived aircrafts of acoustic certification or not answering to the fixed parameters from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). With the sentence of the Constitutional Court it is declared on December 23, 2013 instead full legitimacy of the maximum limit of 0,50 euros to fixed ton for the regional tax on the sonorous emissions of the commercial airplane from the codicil 15-second of article 13 of the bill n.145, limit that has been fixed "to the aim to avoid effects distorted you of the competition between the airport ports of call and to promote the attrattività of the Italian airport system, also with reference to the events legacies to EXPO 2015".

The IBAR has found that the sentence of the Constitutional Court "so places partially remedy to the serious situation that has determined in the Region Latium, where the costs legacies to the tax on the sonorous emissions, being much elevating, currently represents a serious penalization and a burden not more sustainable for the carriers operating airplane in the ports of call of Fiumicino and Ciampino".

Solimeno has wished that the Region Latium, after this decision, "wants to resume with urgency the dialogue with all the associations of the carriers in order to try to find a solution shared on the measure of this tax".