Assarmatori and Federlogistica exhort the government to apply Regolamento EU on the harbour services



The shipowning association Assarmatori and Federlogistica, federation of the logistics enterprises that are under responsibility of Conftrasporto, has exhorted the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Danilo Toninelli, to adopt urgent measures for the recepimento of European Regolamento n. 35 on February 15, 2017 that it establishes a normative picture for the supply of harbour services and in matter of transparency financial institution of the ports, Regulations that must be applied to pass from next 24 March.

In a combined letter sent to the minister, president of Assarmatori, Stefano Messina, and president of Federlogistica, Luigi Merlo, has remembered that Regolamento returns the location of a Competent authority in matter of harbour services obligatory, private authority that the European norm detailed list can be constituted from "any subject public or that, to local level, regional or national, is competent to carry out, according to national legislative or administrative dispositions, activities connected to the organization and administration of the harbour activities, jointly or alternatively to the agency of management of the port", and has emphasized as today does not turn out that the government Italian has completed some step ahead in this direction.

Assarmatori and Fedeerlogistica have remembered moreover that Regolamento EU is applied to the supply of the harbour services as the refueling of fuels, the fleeting cargo handling, mooring, services, the collection of the refusals produced from the ships, the pilotage and the services of towing.

Messina and Merlo have evidenced as the Italian portualità has urgent need of regulations and clear procedures and cannot afford to only make reference to the jurisprudence in matter, asserted from the sentences of the courts, as by now it seems to be the rule for the users and the operators. "The application of Regolamento - they have found in the letter - can supply an only opportunity in order to introduce and finally to apply to valid and in relation to everyone compatible rules with the protection of the competition beginning from the transparency and from the proportionality of the costs as well as to a right to the self-handler, tending to the efficiency, than it cannot be dimmed from balances of power".