The director of Assiterminal, Alessandro Ferrari, announced that the Italian Association of Port Terminalists presented to the Regional Administrative Court for Lazio the intervention to Adjuvandum requesting the annulment of the decree of 30 December 2022 of the Director General for the Supervision of Authorities of Harbour System, maritime transport and waterways internal of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport bearing "Updates for the year 2023, of the unitary measures of fees for maritime state concessions".

Specifying that the presentation of the intervention at the TAR It was carried out 'noting that the Amendments tabled by the majority on Decree-Law 75/2023 were rejected", Ferrari specified that Assiterminal He loses "neither hope nor confidence in being able to obtain even in September a standard that allows you to take a breath, to be able to sit down at a table to finally review the criteria of indexation of concession fees (from 2023)'. Even if - he highlighted - "parliamentary times contrast with the times, the context and the needs of companies terminalists'.

Excerpt of the intervention ad adiuvandum deposited by Assiterminal:

ETC. MO REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT FOR LAZIO - ROME OFFICE V-ter Section U.P. 17.10.2023 INTERVENTION AD ADIUVANDUM In Case N.R.G. 6194/2023 In the interest of the association Assiterminal, Association Italian Port & Terminal Operators (abbreviated as "Assiterminal"), C.F. 95066500109, in person president and legal representative pro tempore dr. Luca Becce, based legal in Viale Padre Santo 5/8, 16122 Genoa - Intervening ad adiuvandum IN THE APPLICATION UNDER N.R.G. ... PROMOTED BY > (..) AGAINST > Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, in the person of the Minister pro tempore, represented and defended by the Bar General of the State; -Resistant And > (…) - Unconstituted resistant AS WELL AS AGAINST > Ministry of Economy and Finance, in the person of the Minister pro tempore, represented and defended by the Bar General of the State; > Agenzia del Demanio, in the person of its legal representative pro tempore, represented and defended by the Attorney General of the State; - Counterparties FOR CANCELLATION, AFTER SUSPENSION OF EFFECTS - the Decree of the Director General for the supervision of Port System Authority, Maritime Transport and inland waterways of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport of 30 December 2022, published in the Official Journal of the Italian Republic, General Series, n. 31, 7 February 2023, containing "Updates relating to the year 2023, of the unitary measures of fees for maritime state concessions"; - the other acts, better indicated in the epigraph of the application (…) THE LEGITIMACY AND INTEREST IN BRINGING PROCEEDINGS OF ASSITERMINAL 2.1 As highlighted above, Assiterminal represents the associative expression of state-owned concessionaire companies operating in the Italian port sector. It should be emphasized that the totality of the "ordinary" associates is holder of one or more deeds of state concession maritime, issued by the authorities responsible for by law, in first, but not only, by the Port System Authorities. 2.2 The contested measure is of a formal nature and substantially administrative and dictates requirements immediately preceptive, capable of directly damaging the position of the recipients, that is, in this case, the companies holding one (or more) maritime state concession, which is always issued pursuant to art. 36 cod. nav., in combination arranged with art. 6 and 18 of Law 84/1994. 2.3 As is known, the category of subjects to whom it applies The contested measure is represented by the dealers of maritime state property and the increase in the amount of fees (+25.15%), as reported in the provision, is binding and has no margin of discretion in the application phase by the granting Administrations. 2.4 By means of this act of intervention ad adiuvandum, Assiterminal intends to protect a homogenous interest common to the whole Category of port undertakings operating by means of acts concessionaires of maritime state property. 2.5 In the present case, because of the characteristics of the Measure subject to scrutiny, it does not concern issues concerning individual members or on issues capable of dividing the category in contrasting positions, since it is a general application and indeed concerns both undertakings without distinction of the leisure tourism sector (such as that of the applicant as well as companies in the port sector (represented of today's intervener), in so far as they share the fact of be holders of a concessionary deed pursuant to art. 36 cod. nav. having object to object the maritime domain, whose discipline of economic adjustment is "unique". 2.6 There is no doubt that a measure, such as the one in question, which significantly alters, aggravating it, the quantum of the due as a concessionary fee, affects everything round on the entire entrepreneurial-port sector, of which Assiterminal is, equally beyond doubt, the Principal representative at national level. (…) P.T.M. The present applicant in the qualities in acts, and by means of of the undersigned defender, ASKS that this Ecc.mo Regional Administrative Court for the Lazio, Rome office, contrariis reiectis, uphold the appeal and, consequently, annul the Director's Decree General for the supervision of Port System Authorities, maritime and inland waterway transport of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport of 30 December 2022, published in the Official Gazette of the Italian Republic, General Series, n. 31, of 7 February 2023, containing "Relative updates to the year 2023, of the unitary measures of the fees for concessions maritime state property) in any case, with victory of expenses and skills to be distracted in favor of the undersigned Lawyers antistatari