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Assarmatori plaude to the first ok to the delay of Regolamento EU of exemption for category for the containerized marine consortia
Messina: also the user has benefitted some and it benefits some substantially
November 22, 2019
Beyond a year it makes the EU commission has activated the procedure in order to estimate the opportunity to be extended the validity of European Regolamento of exemption for category for the consortia of marine transport of line, the Consortia Block Exemption Regulation (TO DRINK) whose current expiration is fixed for next 25 April(on 27 September 2018). I renew of the measure is opposed by the organizations that represent the European shippers and loaders, while it is supported by the shipowning associations between which that Assarmatori Italian who today has expressed satisfaction for the first opinion favorable of the working group of the EU commission to the extension until 2024 of DRINKING.
Remembering that Regolamento assures to the marine companies that operate in the segment of the containerized transport the possibility to stipulate commercial understandings between they, the consortia, without being subjected to the obligation of pre-emptive notification to the European Authority Antitrust and finding that the eventual delay of Regolamento would represent a clean turnabout to communitarian level, the president of Assarmatori, Stefano Messina, have emphasized that "this measure, than is not translate, is clear, in an exemption generalized from the respect of the normative antitrusts, are considered by the armament a fundamental instrument in order to pick and to favour in real time the market occasions being guaranteed flexibility, frequency, efficiency of the service and economization. All qualities - it has specified Messina - of which the also user it has benefitted and it benefits substantially".
In support of own Assarmatori thesis has evidenced that in their conclusions the person in charge task force from the EU commission has observed that DRINKING appears justified because "the consortia generally produce to rationalizations and economies of scale helping to improve the productivity and the quality of the services of marine transport"; moreover "they promote the technical and economic progress", while "the users of the shipment services can obtain advantages from the improvements of the productivity that the consortia can guarantee".
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