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The Constitutional Court declares the establishment of the Port System Authority of the Strait of Messina legitimate
The questions of constitutional legitimacy promoted by the Calabria Region are declared unfounded
October 9, 2020
With judgment 208, filed today (presenter, the Vice-President Giuliano Amato), the Constitutional Court declared unfounded questions of legitimacy promoted by the Calabria Region, which challenged, in In particular, the competence of the Port System Authority, based in Messina, on the ports of Villa San Giovanni and Reggio Calabria.
"With the provision censored," the Court specified. Constitutional - the state legislature has regulated profiles organisational principles attributable to the fundamental principles of the subject "civil ports and airports", as well as the related national public bodies, in order to enhance the peculiarities Straits and its ports, united by the prevailing vocation to passenger traffic.'
"The establishment of a new Authority, based in Messina and also sympathetic to the two Calabrian ports - he pointed out In addition, the constitutional guarantee body - cannot be considered not even unreasonable for possible interference with discipline of the Special Economic Zone (ZES) of Calabria. It is not, in fact, to support, as does the Region Calabria, that the only constitutionally legitimate solution is the coincidence between the Authority's territorial constituencies Port System and those of the ZES, as the legislature expressly regulated cases where some of the ports included ZES area are part of the territorial competence of Authority based in another region, such as in the 'I'm not going to go into the case.'
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With judgment 208, filed today (presenter, the Vice-President Giuliano Amato), the Constitutional Court declared unfounded questions of legitimacy promoted by the Calabria Region, which challenged, in In particular, the competence of the Port System Authority, based in Messina, on the ports of Villa San Giovanni and Reggio Calabria.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
