(Finance) – The Minister of Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility, Enrico Giovanninithe President of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region, Maximilian Fedrigaand the President of the Veneto Region, Luca Zaiahave signed the Agreement which establishes the transfer to the new public company “Upper Adriatic SpA ”the management of the A4 Venice-Trieste, A23 Palmanova-Udine, A28 Portogruaro-Conegliano, A57 Mestre bypass and A34 Villesse-Gorizia motorway sections.
The Agreement, signed today at the end of a long process, was prepared in implementation of the decree-law 148/2017 on concessions motorway that, in recognizing the strategic interest of link, has provided for its management by a company owned by the Regions concerned, entrusting its supervision to Mims. Among the most relevant aspects for the territory and the users deriving from the Agreement are: the freezing of tariffs; the implementation of an investment program for a total of 954 million euros, also necessary for the completion of the third lane in the San Donà di Piave-Villesse motorway section; modernization and extraordinary maintenance of the motorway section.
The Agreement, which has already obtained the assessment positive of the European Commission, the Transport Regulatory Authority (ART) and the Interministerial Committee for Economic Planning and Sustainable Development (CIPESS), creates for the first time in Europe a public-public partnership applied to the motorway sector, ensuring the in the management of the central administration and territorial representatives.
The signing of the Agreement allows the re-establishment of the certainty of concessionary relationships with positive effects on the quality of service to users and on the implementation of investments scheduled, possible thanks to forecasts of revenues deriving from motorway management. The company’s planning activities are entrusted to a steering and coordination committee, which includes representatives of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region, the Veneto Region and the Ministries of Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility and the Ministry of Economy and Finances. The Committee has the task of exercising similar control over the public concessionaire, intervening on the most strategic decisions.
“Over the past 17 months, Mims has paid great attention to the motorway sector, its critical issues and development prospects, evaluating, among other things, the topicality of the concession system with the aim of clarifying the legislation, ensuring infrastructure safety, to enhance control activities, to adapt the agreements in favor of users and the public part, to conclude contractual review procedures that have been inactive for some time “, underlined the Minister Giovannini. “We have also created an ad hoc Commission to identify ways of updating and revising the concession system in line with EU provisions, the work of which is being completed. Today’s Agreement – adds Giovannini – represents a further milestone compared to the various initiatives carried out by Mims in this sector in the last year ”. Among these, the Minister recalled the relaunch and strengthening of the National Agency for Railway Safety and Road and Motorway Infrastructures (ANSFISA), the new provisions for the strengthening of the surveillance and maintenance of tunnels, the tender for the award of Naples-Pompeii-Salerno section and for the re-assignment of the motorway sections managed by ATIVA and Satap (section A21), the updating of the contract for the Asti-Cuneo and Turin-Milan sections, the signing of the concession contract for the motorway sections managed by SALT (Livorno-La Spezia) and Autostrada dei Fiori (A10) and the start of the revision of the concession of Società Autostrada Tirrenica, in line with the indications of the European Commission, for the adaptation of the road network between Tarquinia and San Pietro in Palazzi by of ANAS, without application of toll.
Great satisfaction for the result achieved emerges from the words of the President Maximilian Fedriga. “It is not only a signature affixed to the agreement between Mims, the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, the Region of Veneto and the Società Autostrade Alto Adriatico, but it is the cornerstone of a virtuous process that creates a cooperation between the State and the Regions that thus they intend to identify and implement common objectives “in” and “for the” territories. The first Italian project that will, hopefully in January 2023, allow a motorway concessionaire fully owned by the regions to continue with the fundamental task of completing the third lane of the A4 and to manage the artery for 30 years. A strategic axis not only for our country, but also for connection with border countries “.
For the President Luca Zaia“This agreement is of absolute importance for the Northeast, but I would say for all of Italy, because we are launching an entirely public management company with the Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Veneto Regions, protagonists of the future of a strategic motorway network. in this way it is possible to speed up the construction of the third lane of the A4 between San Dona ‘and Portogruaro, a stretch that has been extremely problematic for some time “.