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the EU commission has approved of the Italian programs of incentives Ferrobonus and the Marebonus
Brussels has confirmed that they are consistent to the norms EU on the aids of State
December 19, 2016
The EU commission has formally approved of the Ferrobonus and the Marebonus, the programs of incentives in order to promote I use it of the railroad and the freeways of the sea for the transport of the goods in Italy. Brussels has confirmed that such measures are consistent to the norms EU on the aids of State and that they will ulteriorly contribute to the objectives of the European Union in matter of atmosphere and transports maintaining meanwhile the competition in the only market.
According to when reported from the EU commission, the Ferrobonus would have a equipment of 255 million euros (to codicil 648 of article 1 of the Law of Stability 2016 is previewed annual appropriations pairs to 20 million euros in three years 2016-2018). About such measure, it turns to stimulate the intermodal rail shipment, the Commission has explained to have stated that the regime is opened to all the railway societies that operate in the Italian market of the transport goods and that the measures are turned in particular to the southern Italy in which the imbalance between the use of the railroads and the road is decidedly marked. Moreover, in compliance with the lines it guides, the level of support that the beneficiaries can perceive by virtue of the regime are based on a reduction of the burdens for infrastructure and for the supported external costs from the operators of the rail shipment regarding the transport on the road.
As for the Marebonus the EU commission, specifying that it has a equipment of 138 million euros (to codicil 648 of article 1 of the Law of Stability is authorized a annual expense that is pairs to 45,4 million in 2016, to 44,1 million in 2017 and 48,9 million euros in 2018), has found that the communitarian guidelines in matter of aids of State to the marine transports allow with the Member States to support these objectives to determined conditions and that, online with the guidelines, the public support - granted to the companies of navigation for the start of new marine services or in order to improve the existing marine connections - it is limited to finance some of the additional costs of the transition to more respectful ways of transport of the atmosphere.
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