With I decree legislative on the ports the Italian government opens third via bisector traditional regimes in vigor in Europe



If I decree legislative in order to reform the Italian harbour administration will become executive in its current form, the Italian executive will open third via bisector traditional regimes of harbour government in vigor in the nordeuropei ports and those sudeuropei. First generally they are withstood by named boards of directors from city and local administrations that benefit directly of the produced economic results from the harbour activities. The ports of the South Europe are governed by managerial committees in which they figure representatives of the State, of the regional institutions, local and city and exponents of the marine authority, the enterprises and the unions.

With the new provision the Italian executive intends to assign the guide of the national ports to a Committee of management with a president named from the government, with the others little members designated from the E regions the Municipalities and with a representative of the marine authority, authorized but to only vote on the competence issues ( on 21 January 2015).

At first sight the procedure of investiture of the new Committee of Italian management seems analogous to that put into effect in Europe North. To a deepened examination more a crucial difference is anticipated obvious: that between the shareholders whom the Board of the nordeuropei ports name and the shareholders who will assign the charges in new the Board of the Italian ports. First directly they are interested to the profit of their investment, second it are much less.

In Europe North the great marine ports are generally of entire property of the local institutions or under their control, while in Italy they are of state property property. Annually the nordeuropei ports pour huge amounts of money in the cases of the institutions that possess them or they control them, than to they time partially plow back them for the development of harbour infrastructures. In Italy it is the State to benefit economically of almost the totality of the activity of the ports and is always the State to pay the realization of the main harbour works.

In Europe North the local institutions have a precise interest to that the ports are guided by leaders and manager in a position to maintaining and increasing the competitiveness of the ports. The new Committees of management of the Italian ports will be formed for almost the totality from representatives of agencies that do not benefit directly of the proceeds of the ports. The Board harbour Italian will be constituted by members named from shareholders whose interest precipuo is not that to guarantee a return of the investment but to answer to those which to they time is their shareholders, that is to the voters. These last ones, for varied reasons, are little inclined to put up with constraints and the uneasiness provoked from intense harbour activities whose benefits limitedly flow on the communities that they accommodate to them.

In the ports of the South Europe the insufficient interest directed to the development of the port by the representatives of the local communities within the harbour Committees is counterbalanced by members named from organisms and representations of the economic world and the job. In the new Committees of management of the Italian ports the representative of the only and true shareholder of the port, that is the State, will be the president, than I decree legislative assures will have "wide decisional powers". Moreover the president will have to be chosen between candidates from "proven experience and professional qualification", formula still more generic regarding the "maximum and proven professional qualification in the fields of the economy of the transports and harbour" demand from the law n. 84 of 1994 for the nomination of the presidents of the current Harbour Authorities.

Between the typical managerial management of the nordeuropei ports and that collegiate own of the sudeuropei ports the Italian government seems addressed towards a partisan of State control management of the harbour ports of call. Third via that it appears percorribile, which that will be the destination towards which will lead, only according to the amplitude of the assigned decisional powers to the president designated from the shareholder of the port.

It is singular that from the economic categories, than I decree legislative excludes from the government of the ports, have reached some authoritative voices of appreciation the provision. To these categories the executive guided by Matteo Renzi proposes to converse on the issues harbour within a Table of Partnership of the Resource Sea, new organ that will be constituted in each Authority of Harbour System, but with sun advisory functions.

It is comprehensible that some representatives of local institutions have hurried to applaud the passage of Wednesday in Council of Ministers of decree legislative, that rewards the ports under their jurisdiction designating them center of one of the 15 new Authorities of Harbour System. An expressed not condivisibile satisfaction if from presidents of Harbour Authorities, very conscious of the contrasts that in Harbour Committee rise with the mayors, above all from when the first citizen is direct expression of local the electoral body.

He is amazing moreover that the project of legislative provision, also in its today's temporary form, is much sketchy not including various crucial aspects of the administration and the harbour operativity, first of all that of the job, a topic that is of the extreme present time since the minor rerun to the consequent labor to the reduction of the marine traffics caused from the economic crisis is forcing the Harbour Authorities to invent solutions in order to guarantee the social peace on the docks, tricks that not always run in the track of the norm currently in vigor.

Bruno Bellio