Today at the IX Commission Transports of the Chamber is begun the examination of the plan of government law on "Reorganization of the law 28 January 1994, n. 84, in matter of harbour governance and relaunch of the investments in strategic infrastructures of marine transport of general interest" whose aims have been illustrated by the relator Maria Grazia Frijia (Fratelli d'Italia), that it has dwelled on the introduction of the national plan of the participations for the strategic importance This Plan - it has puntualized - is based on the infrastructural needs evidenced by the same Authorities and allows to orientate the resources towards works considered essential for the competitiveness of the national harbour system.

A second fundamental axis of the measure - it has added Frijia - is the institution of Porti d'Italia Spa, society to public participation to which are attributed functions connected to the development and promotion of the Italian network of the portualità and to the realization of the strategic infrastructural interventions. The company operates, for these activities, under a concession scheme, in the context of a model qualifying the activities entrusted as services of general economic interest and provides for specific guarantees of compatibility with the European competition and State aid discipline. The choice of establishing a unitary national subject - it has explained - answers to the need to equip the harbour system of a structure able to assure technical continuity, ability realize and uniformity in the implementation of strategic investments. At the same time, the provision keeps in mind the Authorities of Harbour System the functions of administrative management, local regulation and ordinary maintenance, so as to preserve the territorial prey of the ports of call and the relationship with the operators.

The correlater Domenico Furgiuele (Lega) has evidenced how article 4 intervenes on the classification of the ports. The text - it has found - exceeds the plant based on measures not fully adopted and introduces a classification established directly by law. In particular, the commercial ports are distinguished in relation to their recomprehension or not in the constituency of an Authority of Harbour System and, for the ports reundered in such constituency, to their inclusion or not in the central network TEN-T. The same article - it has specified - introduces the reference to the Italian network of the portualità, in which are integrated the ports of category II, classes I and II, entrusting the development and promotion to Ports of Italy Spa. The same article - it has added Furgiuele - moreover disciplines the regime of the charges relative to the realization of the participations, distinguishing between ports of category I, ports of category II reinclusive in the circumscriptions of the Authorities of Harbour System and ports of category II, class III, of regional or interregional relief. Thus the relationship between strategic interventions entrusted to Ports of Italy Spa, interventions that remain in charge to the Authorities of Harbour System and interventions of regional competence.

For the oppositions, Valentina Ghio (Democratic Party) has emphasized as the measure to the examination has a particularly significant relevance, as it intervenes on a norm that has defined the current order of the national harbour system and has observed how the processing of the measure has requested particularly long times. He recalled that the reform had been announced by the government since the beginning of the legislature and that a first organic version of the text was already prepared in December last year, while its adoption was only recently.

For Ghio, the introduced text determines an evident resize of the role of the Authorities of Harbour System, configuring in fact a form of commissioning of the same from a single national subject, the Ports of Italy Spa. Moreover, it pointed out that the top bodies of this new society would be appointed entirely by the government, without the provision of an opinion by the parliamentary commissions and without the prior agreement with the regions.

The MP of the PD has found then as the role of central of management of the harbour infrastructures, with particular reference to the strategic works and the interventions of extraordinary maintenance, assigned to the Ports of Italy entails a substantial emptying of the competences of the Authorities of Harbour System, to which would remain substantially the activities of ordinary maintenance, besides a meaningful reduction of the resources to their disposal. Ghio is asked which is therefore the reason to formally maintain in life the Authorities of Harbour System which subjects responsible for the management of the ports.

Also Francesca Ghirra (Green Alliance and Left) has expressed doubts about the possible emptying of the powers of the Harbour System Authorities and has argued that the objectives of national coordination could be pursued through a strengthening of the already existing organisms, in particular of the national conference of the presidents of the Harbour System Authorities.