the ESPO to Rome in order to discuss about the regulations EU on the harbour services and the transparency financial institution of the ports



The executive committee of the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) has met to Rome in the center of the Association of the Italian Ports (Assoporti) in order at the market to examine the legislative proposal for the definition of European regulations on the access of the harbour services and on the transparency financial institution of the ports that yesterday is approved of by the Committee of the Permanent Representatives of the Council of the European Union ( on 29 July 2016).

"It has been - the extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority of Livorno has explained, Giuliano Gallanti, than on behalf of Assoporti he represents the requests of the national ports in European center - an important moment of I confront. The ESPO is returned to meet in Italy after a long absence. Al center of the argument the regulations on the access to the harbour services yesterday approved of from Commission and Council and for whose improvement lacks only the ulterior passage in Parliament". Gallanti has evidenced the requirement that in Italy focuses the attention on the effects of the European normative new: "creed - it has asserted - is urgent and necessary to open an internal debate since, being immediately executive, the regulations will go to impattare directly on the Italian portualità".

To Rome the summits of the association of the European ports have analyzed to the main points of the new "package ports" that a normative picture for the access of the harbour services institutes at the market, establish requisitioned minimums are relatively to the professional qualification of the staff are to the equipments necessary in order to operate in safety, establish principles in order to return the relations transparent financial institutions between public authorities, harbour authorities and lenders of harbour services, previewing the independent fixation of the rights for I use it of harbour infrastructures.

Al center of the argument the considered attitude ondivago of the European legislator, than if from a part assigns the single ones carries the single faculty to establish the rights for uses it of harbour infrastructures on the base of own business strategies and investment, from the other recalls to the respect of the rules of the competition. The system of the regulations - it is found - has a natural vocation towards the full transparency and autonomy of the European ports which, in order to compete rightfully in the free market, cannot be subject to different rules on the base of the picture of national reference.

After to have many times over emphasized the importance of the managerial autonomy and financial institution of the ports, the representatives of the Harbour Authorities of the EU have estimated some proposals of studies: on potential of the marine ports and the internal ways of water and a relative one to the marine transport that will be introduced in September. At last, she is estimated, and sent back to a next one I confront to Brussels, the demand for adhesion to ESPO which member observer of some adjacent ports to the Union.