Confitarma retort to Honored remembering that the variations to the Italian norms for the marine field are I yield of an adaptation to that EU



To the vehement denunciation on the acts of the Italian Confederation Shipping (Confitarma) which moved yesterday by Vincenzo Onorato, shipowner who controls the companies of ferries Moby and Tirrenia and that it has accused the shipowning confederation not to protect the interests of the Italian flag and not to safeguard the places of work of the marine Italians ( on 24 November 2015), today Confitarma retort explaining that the modifications of the Italian norms in marine-shipowning field are I yield of an adaptation to the legislation of the European Union.

Referring to the Honored relief of about "the previewed extension of the relief for the Italian flag also to the communitarian flags, without some limitation in case of boarding of marine non-EU citizens", precise Confitarma that, "prescinding from the inaccuracy of the reference picture", this "is not I yield of politics of Confitarma, but of an adaptation of the Italian norms to that communitarian express tax from the EU commission. In extreme synthesis - the Confederation remembers - the EU commission has raised the problem of the incompatibility of the national system of taxation facilitated of the yield with the communitarian right, in particular with the principle of plant freedom. Such principle would turn out violated for effect of the circumstance that the benefits are bound exclusively to the registration of the ships in the Italian International Registry. The Commission - moreover Confitarma remembers - has intimato to the Italian authorities to remove such tie, considering it discriminatory regarding the other communitarian flags, pain the opening of an infraction procedure. As a result of this, the normative proposal of adaptation is elaborated by the Ministry of Infrastructures and transports and by the Ministry of the Economy and finances in tightened relationship with the communitarian institutions. Unfortunately such process of adaptation does not turn out still started although assurances supplied from our authorities to the communitarian institutions".

Emphasizing that the scope of Confitarma is "that to defend the interests of the Italian shipowning enterprises", the specific to consider "however indispensable Confederation to adapt itself to the demands for Brussels in order to avoid serious consequences to European level that could arrive until the abolition of the International Registry and for the measures that they allow with the Italian ships of being competitive, to the fleet of Italian flag to grow, until to become third of the great countries reunited in the G20, and to the Italian marine occupation to increase".

With respect to the topic of the occupation, and remembering "the obligation of employment of the single national marine staff on the cabotage traffics", Confitarma evidences moreover that "from always it supports the shipowners that, also engaged in the international traffics, freely they employ marine national in greater measure regarding agreed how much with the labor organizations".

Confitarma concludes observing that "the declarations of councilman Onorato, than participating in the organs of summit of the Confederation never have also not carried out considerations on such issue, appear therefore little convincing" and assuring that however the Confederation "is ready as always to I confront transparent and explanatory".

An approval to the denunciation of Vincenzo Onorato has reached while from the Federmar/CISAL, second which the words written from the shipowner in the missive of dismissal from the Confitarma "make honor the world of the sea". Remembering that in recent days the union had asked the presidents of Confitarma and Federation for the Sea, Emanuele Grimaldi and Paolo Of friend, to be profitable you notice which are shipowners that, as emphasized from Grimaldi on 22 October in occasion of assembly anniversary of Confitarma, from beginning of crisis of 2008 today has generated increase of +12.7% of occupation marine, and to specify which are the qualifications of edge and the nationality of the marine ones, general secretary of Federmar/CISAL, Alessandro Pico, asserts that, to how much it turns out to the labor organization that he represents, "the only ones to have given and that they continue to to give national marine occupation they are the former public companies of navigation and other shipowners (serious) that greater and smaller Italians operate in the national cabotage with the islands".