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May 2, 2022
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- Messina (Assarmatori): the one on risks to competition
from the Transport Decree is a captious controversy about nothing
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- According to the association, the complaint is useless and
Harmful
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 For Assarmatori there would not be the risk, feared by the
trade unions, a deterioration in the conditions of competition
in the logistics sector if the last
draft of the decree-law on infrastructure and transport. Filt Cgil and
Uiltrasporti have denounced that the current text would allow to
international operators to intervene directly in the activities
logistics in Italy benefiting from favorable tax conditions
(
of 2
and 2
May 2022). The two trade unions did not mention
individual international companies that could benefit from this
situation, but among these evidently there could be the group
Swiss Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) which is associated
to Assarmatori, an organization that represents Italian shipowners but
also of other nations operating a significant share of
maritime services with Italian ports.-
- "They appeared in the press - noted the president of
Assarmatori, Stefano Messina - news according to which a norm
included in the draft of the Transport Decree would constitute an aid
extensive taxation compared to that present today in favor of the
Italian shipowners, such as to put at risk, according to
unspecified "observers", even the
competition in the sector, drawing the attention of the
European Commission. This approach, hypothesized by some
political and trade union actors - Messina specified - is
misleading and suggests that they have intervened on these issues
related to armament and ports not in possession of the
necessary and correct information and therefore without any
technical in-depth analysis and also with a good dose of
rhetoric."
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- Specifying that these are controversies relating to the limitation,
and certainly not to the extension, to the activities strictly
ancillary to the carriage of cruise passengers and cargo of the
tax benefits provided for by the regime known as that of the Registry
International, the president of Assarmatori highlighted that
"this regime has been in force for 24 years and the novelty
in question is instead the result of a decision of the
European Commission dated 11 June 2020
(
of 11
June 2020, ed), which goes right in the direction
contrary to what was feared. The beneficiaries of the aid to the
maritime transport - explained Messina - will be able to consider the
ground assets in the income eligible for benefit within the limit
by 50% as requested by the Commission itself to standardise the
our regime to that of the other EU Member States. You don't
forget that the body of the Union has imposed on Italy to
apply this measure by January 2021: the risk, therefore, more
that a "reprimand" to our country for the adoption of
that legislation, if anything, would be that of opening a procedure
of infringement for not having done so yet after 15 months
from the expiry of the term'. "I would like to emphasize
moreover - added Messina - that this regime is guaranteed
only to companies based in Italy: absurd and instrumental
refer to other subjects'.
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- "Finally - concluded Messina - raise this captious
controversy about nothingness when we are finally preparing to put in
security an essential regime, which as clear to all allows you to
have a competitive system in Italy (the well-known Registry
International), appears useless and harmful. Downstream of all this,
Assarmatori, accustomed to dialogue and work with the public
administration and the political and social partners, will continue to
work in the interest of the blue economy supply chain and
especially that of the thousands of jobs to it
closely related'.
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