A delegation of the Union Pilots has met the summits of the European Parliament



In recent days a delegation of the composed Union Pilots from president Vincenzo Bellomo, the vice president Marco Ragusa and the secretary Ciro Romano, accompanied from the marittimista lawyer Paolo Malaguti (Law firm Malaguti & Partners), has met the summits of the European Parliament, between which the vice president of the legislative assembly, David Sassoli, and the members of the Commission Transports and tourism (TRAN) - Isabella De Monte and Daniela Aiuto -, of the Commission social Job and transactions (EMPL) - Mara Bizzotto and Brando Benifei - and of the Commission for the Home market (IMCO) - Lara Comi (vice president of the PPE) - let alone the europarlamentari Raffaele Fitto (Commission CONT), Remo Sernagiotto (Commission PECH) and David Borrelli (Commission ITRE).

President of the Union Piloti has restated to the summits of the European Parliament and the Commission Transports the problem legacy to the fact that "cyclical, to every change of EU commission, some Countries pushed from the wind of the liberalization try to barter safety of the port with the liberalization of the nautical technical service of the pilotage being neglected that - has emphasized Bellomo - today it represents an irreplaceable point of safety of navigation".

The secretary of the Union Pilots has stopped himself on the proposals of modification of directive 2008/106/CE currently in argument in the Commission EMPL and TRAN specifying that "it is necessary to protect the job of the marine European Italians and, firstly - he has found Roman - previewing marine instruments in order to establish quotas the boarding of coming from Third-country, let alone to hinder the will of some shipowners who pursue marine the scope to facilitate the boarding of not European being considered it - wrongly - economically more attractive".

In the course of the encounters topics of geopolitics of the sea are faced also and to such purpose lawyer Malaguti has emphasized "the necessity that the huge investment by sensitive European harbour infrastructure China, which the port of the Pireo, rather than of various railway infrastructures in the Balkans (Serbia, Croatia, Macedonian, Greece), must be constantly attenzionato for the protection of the total flows of exchange, and, still before, for safety of the European traffics and not".

The Union Pilots has announced that in order to return the proposal still more explicit than protection of the category of the pilots of the ports it will propose a written interrogation to Violeta Bulc, European commissioner to the Transports.