The minister of Infrastructures and the Transports has met the European commissioner to the Transports



Today to Rome the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Danilo Toninelli, has met Violeta Bulc, European commissioner to the Transports, to which he has evidenced the central importance that the development of the field infrastructures and transports covers in the vision of the new Italian government and has depended on a financing hard for the part Transports in the proposed new of the Commission for pluriennale Picture Financial 2021-2027. Moreover Toninelli has confirmed the intention of Italy to work in tight connection with the institutions EU and the other Countries for the development of the European and international projects.

In the course of the Toninelli encounter, referring to the first Package Mobility approved of from the EU commission, it has said that the Italian government is perplexed on the compromise introduced from the Bulgarian Presidency and has emphasized the characterizing points and dirimenti: the social aspect (approached the profession and at the market, times of guide and rest, separation of the workers, chartering) - it has specified the minister - must be one of the main topics of the regulation of the field, while the cabotage must be an only temporary activity, than cannot be carried out in ongoing and systematic way and that there is a need for a clear discipline that allows to avoid phenomena of treacherous competition. Moreover - it has added Toninelli - its regulation must allow effective controls. To the drivers, whose engagement is highly onerous outside from own address, they go assured the protections of the detached workers, treatments that they avoid accumulates of hard work and guaranteed optimal conditions of rest, with re-enters at home in consistent terms. The minister has found that if in the course of negotiates some progresses are made, however the main aspects continues to remain unsolved. Toninelli has specified that however Italy will work with the Commission and the other Member States in constructive way, also under the Presidency Austrian, in order to reach balanced solutions.

Toninelli has moreover assured that Italy appreciates the efforts of the Commission turns to assure equipment and continuity financial institution for the completion of the nets and the transeuropei corridors in the budget EU 2021-2027. The equipment you transport, substantially reconfirmed in the amount pairs to 12,8 billion, even though to assign to the new order to 27 Member States - it has observed - will not have therefore to endure some reduction, also to light of the experience of the slid one it negotiate that almost it has halved the budget total of instrument CEF. For Italy - it has added the minister - it is important then to guarantee the horizontal priorities tied to the Freeways of the Sea and the European system of signaling and railway control Ertms. Moreover he is fundamental to be able to count on the conservation of the equipment financial institution of the instrument, is turned to the total net that central, above all under the form of financings unsecured: to such purpose, in fact - Toninelli has explained - our esteem of investments for period 2021-2030 piles to about 76 billion euros and the European co-financing will be therefore unavoidable element.

Regarding instead the transboundary project Turin-Lyon, the minister it has evidenced the work of rationalization of the adduction drafts, with a cost reduction from 4,3 to 1,7 billion, and has confirmed that, in the respect of the international agreements, one is providing to scientific and economic an analysis cost-benefits whose outcomes will be shared with the EU commission.

About the Tunnel of Brenner, Toninelli has asked Bulc to estimate the conformity with the norms EU of the sector blocks tax to the heavy traffic from Austria, prohibition that - it has emphasized - strongly damages the Italian enterprises.

The minister has subordinate to the commissioner then EU the topic of the territorial continuity of the Sardinia. The government, in fact - he has explained - intends to carry to conclusion the procedure of definition of the new regime of the burdens of public service for the Sardinian airports of Cagliari, Alghero and Olbia with Rome and Milan. Evidencing the indispensability to guarantee parity of treatment for all the citizens of the Union residents in such areas, Toninelli has been said trusting about the collaboration that the Offices of the EU commission will offer in order to accelerate to the maximum the definition of the procedure that will carry to the new regime of the service burdens.