"We have seen a country-system, the Italian one, in the first place queue in Brussels in the defence of maritime and port traffic national and European countries: the CII (the Carbon Intensity Index, ed.) has been removed from the new Port State Control Directive thanks to the intervention of the Italian delegation, and also the The European Parliament has sounded the alarm about the risks distortions of the ETS for continental transhipment ports. The The European Commission should take note of this and turn words into deeds concrete'. This was said by the Secretary General of Assarmatori, Alberto Rossi, at the end of a new mission of the association Italian shipowners' agreement in Brussels started the day after the Council EU Transport Ministers' meeting last Monday and concluded on Thursday with a resolution on European ports approved by the European Parliament's Committee on Transport (TRAN).

"First of all," Rossi explained, "the EU Council Transport, which was attended by Minister Salvini, adopted Important changes to the proposals for directives in the package European Maritime Safety. These include exclusion, upon request of the distorting CII (Carbon Intensity Indicator) index of the IMO by the new criteria proposed by the European Commission for the future Port State Control inspections'. Especially with regard to the proposal to amend Directive No 16 of 2009 on Port State Control activities, the Ministers of the EU Transport Agencies have shown that the CII indicator 'depends on the not only by the technical condition of the ship, but also by parameters (such as the speed of the ship), as well as external circumstances (business patterns, weather conditions, time spent in port etc.), which means that it is not necessarily an indicator of poor performance or non-performance compliance and should therefore not be considered in the calculation of the risk profile of the ship'.

"It is a matter of - observed the Secretary-General of Assarmatori - of a fundamental political signal, obtained thanks to the to our administration and permanent representation in Brussels, which confirms what Assarmatori has been arguing for some time, namely the inadequacy of this indicator and the urgency of its rapid change by 2026. The TRAN Committee, on the other hand, also On the initiative of the shadow rapporteur, Marco Campomenosi, Important amendments to the inclusion proposal approved of the current CII in the Port State Control Directive'.

The resolution adopted by the TRAN Committee provides that, as soon as the International Maritime Organization has adopted a global Carbon Intensity Indicator, the Commission adopts a delegated act in order to amend Annexes I and II of the Directive by including the CII adopted by the IMO among the parameters used for the determination of the risk profile of a ship.

On Thursday, the TRAN Committee also adopted a Resolution on a European Strategy for Ports which, as a result of the of the amendments of the Italian MEPs, reiterates the alarm on the risk of relocation of trafficking transhipment as a consequence of the application of the ETS, the for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading in the EU, and the implications for the security of Supplies. Assarmatori announced that, on the occasion of the vote on the resolution, promoted a meeting with the Italian MEPs to discuss concrete solutions to the Pressing challenges for the maritime-port sector Italian: First of all, the urgency of ensuring competitiveness transhipment ports under the ETS, but also the short-sea traffic, promoting a European Marebonus incentive for the modal shift of goods and at the same time a virtuous of ETS revenues. According to the association, Europe should provide for the overall support of the services of the Motorways of the Sea, increasing their currently insufficient endowment made available by a number of Member States, first and foremost Italy, which He has historically believed in the project.

"At the meeting, which was attended by the Vice-President of the European Parliament Pina Picierno, Denis Nesci, Marco Campomenosi, Achille Variati and the political advisors of "We have discussed the fact that we have discussed the solutions for the protection of the maritime-port system at the in light of these challenges. During the meeting, MEPs concrete solutions, and the Vice-President the proposal for a European Parliament resolution on the which we look at with interest."