The Region Apulia places three conditions for the regionalization of Railroads of the East South



The Region Apulia has placed to the government three conditions so that the property the railway company Railroads of East South (FSE), today controlled from the ministry of Infrastructures and of the Transports, it is transferred to the regional agency. Bill 22 june 2012, n. 83 "urgent Measures for the increase of the Country" have previewed the activation of the procedures for the transfer of the property of the Railroads of the East South from the State to the Region Apulia, guaranteeing a recapitalization of 20 million euros of the society, on condition that within 60 days from the date of publication of I decree (if enacted), and therefore within on 24 August, he is undersigned between ministry and Region the transfer agreement. In such case the regionalization will have to happen within next 31 December.

The city council member to the Transports of the Region, Guglielmo Minervini, has announced that in the course of the encounter yesterday to the ministry the regional institution has placed three conditions for the definition of the transfer agreement, "all riconducibili - she has explained - to state of health of the society". Minervini however has evidenced that "the Railroads of the East South are a carrying pillar of apulian public mobility: they move every day - it has remembered - 60 thousand people and occupy 1,500 assigned" and has emphasized that the Region is ready to find the society "in order to realize the strategic objective of integration of the five apulian railroads inside an only system, but - it has specified - we have placed the ministry, current only shareholder of the society, three conditions because this can happen".

"The first - it has specified Minervini - is that the ministry signs the transattivo agreement with the Region, than the committee has already deliberated to May, regarding a credit boasted from the FSE regarding the Region Apulia pairs to 130 million euros, on which the REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT is already pronounced recognizing our reasons". A lot - the city council member has remembered - is derived from the fact that in the 2009 Region it second determined in favour of the enterprises of local public transport the compensation amount the indices previewed from the law. The governmental dispositions preview that the fee of service contracts, with which the distribution of public transport is regulated, is updated every year to the inflation indices. Society FSE, declaring insufficient the amount of the recognized fee, proposed resorted dinnanzi to the REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT of Bari that, in June of 2011, integrally rejected the pretensions of the society. FSE has always enrolled in these years the credits boasted from the Region in their budget. So a imbalance has been generated managerial-financial that has been gone emphasizing over the years, until to reach - it has observed Minervini - prorates worrisome. Against the sentence of the Regional administrative court, FSE has proposed resorted in Council of State that has suspended the effects of the sentence of the Administrative court and will resume the argument of the cause to December.

"The second condition - Minervini has continued - regards the definition of the relative slopes to the litigations with the staff, than it is dragged from 2000 and it concerns to issues tied to the period of ministerial management. These weight down the budget of the society for a figure near 50 million euros. This matter, all internal the relationship between ministry and society, we have asked is defined before the passage to the Region of the society and us it seems to have met a sure availability of the ministry".

The third condition - it has continued the city council member - drift from the first two: "we have the doubt - it has clarified - than these problematic ones cannot be the only ones, for this reason we have asked and obtained from the ministry the realization of the two diligence, an instrument that we consider in order to make clarity on the effective situation of the accounts".

"The conditions - it has concluded Minervini - are not a excuse in order to blow up agreement; the Region has raised the problematic ones and the burden has been assumed up to now in order to face and to resolve the problem, but this would not be possible if it came outside considerably various a debt situation from that perceived. The relation with the government has carried out up to now in terms of loyalty and institutional correctness; we cannot pay managements of which we do not have no responsibility, and for this reason reject until from hour every attempt of ripianare the situation making rerun to other destined resources to investments and infrastructures, as deep the Fas".

The city council member to the Budget of the Region, Michele Pelillo, has announced that yesterday the regional committee has authorized the service controls to open the two diligence on accounts FSE. "A verification - it has confirmed - on economic, financial, patrimonial and managerial the state of the society. It is necessary but to mention that in the FSE patrimony not there are the lands on which the railroads, the stations run and all the pertinences, than in these days are passing also from the bureaucratic point of view, to the regional railway Federal property, therefore to the Region Apulia. The verification will emphasize so the consistency of assets and liabilities and the patrimony of the society, that it possesses the rotabile material partially and it manages the staff".