Commenting on the outcome of yesterday's Council of Ministers which, between the measures adopted, decided the exclusion road haulage from the competences of the Regulation of Transport (ART), consequently exempting the sector from the payment of the contribution to the Authority, miscellaneous Road haulage associations have expressed their support for this measure. CNA Fita, expressing satisfaction for the Provision, he specified that it now awaits "that at most soon the implementing decrees necessary to unlock will be issued the disbursement of funds already allocated to meet the crisis in the sector».

Recalling that "in recent years ALIS has repeatedly highlighted to government institutions the need to eliminate the obligation to pay the annual ART contribution for companies of road haulage", the general director of the Association Logistics of Sustainable Intermodality, Marcello Di Catherine, affirmed that, "after the acceptance of this instance in some emergency measures, we are very satisfied that the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini, wanted to insert a specific rule in the Omnibus decree-law aimed precisely at the abolition of that obligation'. "This choice - he added - is an important sign of attention towards the road haulage sector that in recent months has already faced considerable and continuous difficulties deriving from the high prices and expensive fuels and we therefore hope that the rule is also supported by Parliament in the process of conversion into law of the decree and approved as soon as possible».

It is - commented the president of ANITA, Riccardo Morelli - "excellent news for our sector. A heartfelt thanks go to Minister Salvini who proposed it and made to include in the omnibus decree by collecting and sharing the ANITA's position demonstrating once again great commitment to the protection of road transport businesses. After years of battles in which ANITA has always expressed firmly its opposition to a measure considered unjust - has underlined Morelli - we finally see recognized to companies that we represent the full elimination of an undue cost, and extremely burdensome. Exclude road transport from the obligation to pay the annual fee for the operation of the ART is How much we have always supported since it was born the Authority, as the freight transport sector on Strada is a sector already totally liberalized regulated by European and national standards and by the Central Committee for the Register of road hauliers and the ART has never exercised moreover, no kind of regulation of the sector'.