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Confitarma alarmed for the legislations that could penalize the Italian companies
Approved of from the Senate the amendment of the reporter of the Ddl 2228 Cociancich
May 11, 2016
The Italian Confederation Shipping (Confitarma) has complained the green light of the Senate, in the within of the approval in first reading of the bill n.2228 (European Law 2015), to an amendment introduced "and - it has specified the shipowning association - supported with strong interest" from the reporter Roberto Cociancich, whose contained - Confitarma had denounced recently - the existence of the fleet and the Italian crews would place to risk and would force national the shipowning enterprises to the offshoring ( on 17 March 2016). Green light - it has emphasized Confitarma - yesterday reached afternoon "after very three contrary opinions expressed on the same topic from the Commission Budget".
Confitarma has restated to consider "that some necessity not sussista to reform the complex normative picture that regulated marine navigation in Italy, as instead it previews the amendment" and the Confederation has wished "that the Parliament and the government can reconsider the up to here express positions, bearing in mind - it has specified Confitarma - than from 1998, with the reform that has introduced in Italy the International Registry, with the measures which wished from Europe, has been possible to stop the ship hemorrhage and to increase the fleet of Italian flag more and more improving the levels of safety and quality".
The Confederation has remembered that "the competitiveness assured to the Italian fleet from the law n.30 of 1998 has allowed, also in periods of crisis, to continue to invest, to create occupation and to form young people for the careers of sea and earth. Moreover, as many times over marked from Confitarma - it has found the Confederation - previewed how much from the amendment for the ferry boats ro-ro and ro-ro pax could involve a very various result from that previewed, so pursuing the true purpose that has determined and that is the increase to it of the costs for some Italian operators to advantage of others, as wide noticed from it prints specialistic and emerged in the course of the same debate as soon as concluded to the Senate".
The bill will pass now to the Chamber for the ulterior one iter of approval.
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