Minister Clini makes clarity on the procedure of removal of the property left at death one of Costa Concordia



In a letter sent to the daily paper "the Unit" the minister of the Atmosphere, Corrado Clini, has made clarity on the procedure of removal of the property left at death one of Costa Concordia, the cruise ship been shipwrecked at the beginning last year to Isola del Giglio. With eight precisazioni the minister has intended to dissipate "a smoke-producing curtain of disinformation on the Concord, than - he has emphasized Clini - it is at the same time irresponsible and pathetic".

The representative of the government has remembered to have "punctual tax to Costa Crociere 40 prescription for the operations management of recovery of the property left at death one, to the aim to assure the protection of the precious marine atmosphere of the Lily and of the Tuscan archipelago", to have "always clarified in formal way that, the respect of the principle "who pollutes wage", all the costs for the removal and digestion of the property left at death one are at the expense of Costa Crociere" and have remembered moreover to have represented in formal way Costa Crociere, and to the commissioner of the Civil Protection, Franco Gabrielli, as soon as informed of the delays inthe operations of removal of the ship, "the necessity to guarantee a sure tempistica for the removal of the property left at death one from Isola del Giglio in the scrupulous respect of the prescription for the protection of the atmosphere and safety".

"At the same time - he has continued Clini - since October 2012, I have represented in formal way Costa Crociere, and to commissioner Franco Gabrielli, the urgency of the location of the port where to hospitalize and to dismantle the property left at death one before the conclusions of the operations to the Lily. Bearing in mind that the property left at death one is a refusal that second the European directives and the international conventions must be delivered in the site more close for being cleared and "disposed". "With this end in view - it has still specified the minister - the Tuscany Region, at the end of 2012, has indicated the site more close (the port of Piombino) and has introduced a punctual project for dismantling and the recovery of the materials of the property left at death one, valuing industrial infrastructures and the competences of the area iron worker: infrastructures and competences necessary in order to dismantle and to recover the Concord. The costs of the dismantling and digestion are at the expense of Costa Crociere. While they are at the expense of the competent authorities the participations already previewed and approved of from the harbour town development plan for the adaptation of backdrops and docks to the aims of the activities own of the port. The realization of these participations returns also the operations possible on the Concord, but it is not finalized to these operations: that is it is false that they will be spold 150 million euros of public funds in order to dispose the Concord".

The minister has restated that "the project of the Tuscany Region is the only proposal for dismantling of the property left at death one" and that "to the project introduced from the Tuscany Region Costa Crociere has replied indirectly advancing the idea to carry the property left at death one in a European port, in order to sell it to subjects that however operate to out of the rules and the controls established from the European directives". "In order to avoid that it remained uncertainty on the destination of the property left at death one and could happen the European transfer of the Concord - it has added Clini - the 8 Council of Ministers of March 2013 has shared the indication of the Tuscany Region and has given sent to commissioner Franco Gabrielli, jointly to the ministries of the Atmosphere and Infrastructures, to carry out the verification of feasibility of the project of the Region. In particular it is necessary to assess if the work already previewed from the harbour town development plan for the adaptation of backdrops and docks - and for which the resources are available necessary financial institutions - can be completed in due time in order to allow the previewed shelter of the property left at death one at the end of October 2013. The deliberation of the Council of Ministers ago explicit reference to the bill on January 14, 2013 that the state of emergency for Costa Concordia has postponed. And this - it has emphasized Clini - is the normative context in which the initiatives necessary go placed all in order to close the operation Concord with the dismantling and digestion of the property left at death one in the respect of the Italian laws and the European directives. To this end I do not understand because the Gabrielli prefect can sovraintendere to the operations that Costa Crociere is realizing in the great yard dl Lily for the recovery of the property left at death one, but not to those (in the within of the same state of emergency) that the Harbour Authority must realize to Piombino".

"Today - it has concluded the minister - the Tuscany Region is the best guarantee in order to avoid that the outcome of the Concord is guided by speculative interests: the interests of who it hopes not to pay the cost of digestion, of who it waits for the property left at death one on the spiagge of the European Countries where the rules for the protection of the atmosphere and those for safety of the workers are "optional", or of who it is improvised smantellatore and regenerator of property left at death. For these reasons the deliberation of the Council of Ministers is adopted of understanding with the Tuscany Region: that moreover EU has for law the competence to authorize the eventual transfer of property left at death/the refusal in an extra site".

From part its, in a Costa Crociere note has intended to specify that the relative decision to the choice of the modalities of transport and the definition of the site that will have to receive property left at death of the ship the Concord for the activities of digestion and money laundering, "will be taken in the full respect of the laws and the applicable norms, in tightened coordination and agreement with the authorities in case of necessity delegated". "A groundbreaking study in order to select the more appropriate solution - it has continued the crocieristica company - is shared constantly with the prelocated authorities. Every decision will be taken in agreement with the delegated authorities, and will hold in particular consideration safety of the transport of property left at death and the protection of the atmosphere".