Continuity and service charges, Deiana: "Competence to the Region also for ships"

"I believe it is important to be able to complete this plan, the main contribution of which to the general structure of the maritime sector is to involve the only person who is really clear about the connection needs and the conditions of market failure, which does not it may be other than the Sardinia Region ".

This is the position expressed by the president of the Port Authority of the sea of Sardinia, Massimo Deiana, during a hearing before the Transport Committee of the Chamber on territorial continuity.

"The system of public service obligations in the aviation sector was governed by a law in 1999 which attributed the competence to the Region of Sardinia - explained Deiana - In the maritime system this presence of the Region is missing and has never been defined because the problem it has been in place since 2020, or rather from the expiry of the Tirrenia concession ".

Deiana then spoke of the two continuity bills presented by Romina Mura and Nardo Marino: "One question - he said - is that these bills must comply with a mechanism already provided for by the European regulation and which provides for the definition of the charges. from

public service and, if no one accepts them, we move on to phase two where we go to the selection of a single entity that carries out the subsidized service. It is therefore not the possibility of carrying out the service that is competing, but the possibility of having compensation ”.

"In the case of the maritime sector - continued Deiana - the problem is that if the charges are accepted by several subjects it becomes complicated at the application level, because a subject could not be prohibited from carrying out free traffic on those routes. flies on a route only under certain conditions, with predefined slots at airports, in the maritime one there are no such slots and we may be faced with the fact that those who accept the charges submit to those conditions, but there may also be someone who does not accepts the obligations and can claim to carry out that connection under different conditions ".

(Unioneonline / lf)