the State Audit Court exhorts for the umpteenth one turns the Ministry of Transportation to define the position of the Harbour Authority of Manfredonia



The State Audit Court, recalling - as by now it happens from years - "the attention of the ministry supervising on the necessity that the position of the Harbour Authority of Manfredonia comes as soon as possible defined" and "which does restate the critical notations already formulated in the precedence reports", it has rejected the decision to place the harbour agency under commissariale management, guide - it has specified the vigilance and supervisory body - than "does not seem to answer to the scopes for which the Harbour Authorities are instituted".

The Court, in the report on the control on the management financial institution of the introduced apulian harbour agency in recent days, has remembered that the Harbour Authority of Manfredonia is instituted by financial law 2004 and successively is suppressed with decrees on October 12, 2007 of the President of the Republic for deficiency of necessary previewed requirement of traffic from law 84 of 1994; as a result of resource, the abolition provision at first is suspended as a precautionary measure, with consequent cessation of the commissioner liquidator already named in date 22 October 2007 and re-integrates of the commissioner and the added commissioner, to make given from on January 21, 2008 and, successively is cancelled with sentence of the REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT Latium in date 13 Decembers 2011, confirmed also during appeal from the Council of State in 2014.

"The agency - it has found the Court - is not equipped of the organs of administration previewed from law 84/1994 (president, harbour Committee, general secretariat), also having the supervisory body, constituted from the College of the revisers of the accounts. Moreover own is deprived of organic plant and staff, making use for the development of the activity of institute of external collaborators".

The Court has observed that "the Authority still is not equipped of a Portuale Town development plan, neither has obtained the demanded increase of territorial administrative division" and that "a traffic volume remains, in the examined four-year term, as already in the three years precedence, widely beneath of the established minimal limit from the law n. 84 of 1994 (three million annual tons to clearly of 90% of the liquid bulk or 200,000 Twenty Feet Equivalent - TEU) for the constitution and the maintenance of the Harbour Authorities".

To such purpose the Court has emphasized that "the traffic of the goods under investigation marks a progressive decrement in the four-year term. The total of the goods enlivened passes from 925.059 tons of 2009 to 677.804 tons of 2013, with a decrement of 27%, imputable to both the categories of goods. The Harbour Authority - law in the document - mentions in purpose that the Basin High-backdrops, deputy to the mooring of the mercantile ships, needs of extraordinary maintenance operations, of which to the project introduced to the Higher council of the Public works for an amount of about 60 million euros. Encounters with the Municipality of Manfredonia and the Region Apulia finalized are on to retrieve resources financial institutions for sayings participations". Moreover the precise relation that "in four-year term 2010-2013, as already in 2009, has been absent the movement fleeting and containers".

The Court has specified moreover that "the entrances for state property canons show an increment of the assessments in the four-year term, passing from the 255,694 euros of 2010 to the 407,911 euros of 2013, moreover evidencing a progressive decrease of the collected amounts that they pass from 96.9% on the assessments of entrance for canons of 2010 to 19.1% of 2013".

The Court also has evidenced that "the Harbour Authority has not started the contest procedures in due time in order to guarantee the continuity of the service of collection refusals from the ships and cleansing of the watery mirrors and the portierato service of to the aims of the security; the college of the revisers has found the coherence of the delay with the desumibili general principles from the enforced norm and has not invited the agency to start with urgency the contest procedures".

At last, "for that it concerns the closely accounting data, the financial results show a decreasing course in the four-year term, strongly influenced from the sales negatives of the mail on account capital, that they determine in a 2012 deficit of euro 11.678.799. Exercise 2013 is shut with a remainder of euro 12,281, against the 10.052.412 euros of 2009. The administration remainder is attested on thirty million euro in the biennium 2010-2011, substantially stable one regarding 2009, while in biennium 2012-2013 it shows a remarkable decrement and it piles to about 18,5 million euros. The economic result, of positive sign with the exception of 2011, shows a decreasing course in the four-year term, until to reach in 2013, in which it piles to euro 43,326, a reduction of 44% regarding 2009. The net worth, with the exception of 2011, turns out in increase for effect of the economic remainders and passes from the 382,900 euros of 2009 to the 529,129 euros of 2013".