It is being examined by the Committee on Transport, Posts and Telecommunications of the Chamber of Deputies, the "Framework Law on interporti" whose first signatory is Mauro Rotelli, deputy of Fratelli d'Italia, and which sees among the most important aspects of the The definition of the regime applicable to managing entities has been debated of freight terminals, with Article 5 to establish that 'the that manage freight terminals act under the law private'. In addition, the article provides that public bodies the areas on which the freight terminals are located, 'in order to guarantee the certainty of economic and financial instruments' used for their implementation, constitute 'on the basis of the areas in which the freight village is located, a surface right, pursuant to Articles 952 et seq. of the Italian Civil Code, of the managing bodies of the freight village concerned already affiliated with the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport. The duration of the surface right - specifies the draft law - is established taking into account the value of the investments carried out for the works carried out by the managing bodies, as well as the amortisation of the costs already incurred by them'. In addition, the text before the Commission states that the the operators of the interports concerned can redeem these areas by the granting bodies 'transforming, as a result of expressly requested, the right of surface in the right of full ownership of immovable property'.

"The law," explained Maria Grazia Frijia, deputy of Fratelli d'Italia and member of the Transport Commission at the Chamber - defines freight terminals as infrastructures managed in entrepreneurial form, where the manager acts under the competition and private law. We also establish the principle of of public programming, in the name of the Mims with the involvement of territorial and local self-government. In the norm it is then provided that the purely intermodal activity can be A goods processing activity must be associated such as packaging and labelling, favouring the employment and cost containment'.

Recalling that "to date, Italian freight terminals officially registered by the Ministry of Infrastructure and There are 24 of them and they consist of 32 million square meters of areas logistics and five million square metres of warehouses', Frijia underlined that "with this reform we are giving answers exhaustive and decisive solutions for the efficiency of services. Regrets only - he added - the position taken by the minority that has A specious political polemic was preferred. Thanks to the attention and to the great work done by the majority, with this law We overcome a discipline that dates back more than 30 years and establish an up-to-date legal framework in which the public planning and private economic initiative, offering a legal framework within which Italian freight terminals not only will be better able to make use of the resources allocated to them by the PNRR, but also to better connect with the TEN-T networks and the SEZs."

According to Valentina Ghio, deputy leader of the Democratic Party in the Chamber of Deputies and a member of the Transport Committee, The framework law on freight terminals represents the start of a real and privatization of a strategic infrastructure of our Country, after that of Ferrovie and Poste Italiane. In Article 5, which represents the heart of the law - he specified - appears This government's plan to privatize the when it is specified that the same managing entities must act under private law, in a manner that does not ensure mechanisms of a public nature. It's worrisome In addition, the transformation of the right of use into a right of property, without providing for any public tender but only a Sworn appraisal by an investment valuation technician. We are facing a new sell-off of our assets and fundamental structures for the country. As a Democratic Party We have tabled a number of amendments calling for the mechanisms based on benchmarks that have as a reference the Public Procurement Code. If they are not approved, you will will lose other pieces of public heritage that are strategic for the Italy. Once again - concluded Ghio - a measure without any foresight, which does not adequately enhance the intermodality needed to hold together development economic and environmental protection. The umpteenth step backwards of a centre-right that in words stands as a champion of the Fatherland, but in the Fatti sells it off to the private sector and does not strengthen its equitable development."