By reasoned opinion issued on 2 October, the Authority The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) had declared the resolution of 4 August of the Committee of management of the Port System Authority of the Ionian Sea on the establishment of a labour agency temporary in the legal form of a liability company limited to mixed public-private participation pursuant to Article 17 of the Legislative Decree No. 175/2016. On your latest bulletin the AGCM explains that it 'considered that this resolution was unlawful for the following reasons: the undue participation of control of the share capital of the joint venture, not in line with the Authority's institutional purposes of the Port System of the Ionian Sea, in violation of Article 4 of the Legislative Decree no. 175/2016; the significant lack of motivation analysis of the chosen method of entrustment and the reasons for not having recourse to the market, in violation of Article 5 of Legislative Decree no. No 175/2016'.

The antitrust authority recalled that, "in response to the opinion, the Port System Authority of the Ionian Sea has adopted Resolution no. 13 of 23 October 2023, with which it annulled the contested measure in self-defence. The Authority considered that the annulment of the measure contested by the Port System Authority of the Sea Ionian is sufficient to eliminate the violations found in its reasoned opinion. Therefore, having taken note of the of the Port System Authority of the Ionian Sea to the opinion of the reasoned decision of 2 October 2023, the Authority resolved, in the meeting of 28 November 2023, not to appeal to the Puglia Regional Administrative Court - Lecce against the resolution in question'.