(Finance) – Stop to extensions from the concessions state-owned tourist which from 2024 they must be awarded with tenders that promote competition and the usability of the coasts and take into account the planned investments. The Council of Ministers decided unanimously and approved two measures: an amendment to Competition bill which extends to the end 2023 existing concessions and a draft law which will regulate insolvency procedures. Procedures that they will have to ensure “equal treatment, maximum participation, transparency and adequate publicity” and which must be launched “with a call for tenders at least twelve months before” the expiry of the existing concessions.
Fix yourself then from the executive a series of stakes and criteria to which the tenders will have to comply with protections for workers, small businesses and for managers who derive the income of their families from the concessions. The selection criteria will also have to give weight to the “technical and professional experience already acquired”, however, in such a way as “not to preclude new operators from entering the sector”. News also with regard to state-owned rents which will have to take into account the natural value and the effective profitability of the areas as well as being partly used for interventions to defend the coasts and free areas. The concessionaires will then have to ensure their customers an adequate relationship between the rates proposed and the quality of the service and will be required to guarantee the accessibility and usability of the state property, even by people with disabilities. The new concessions will have a duration not exceeding what is strictly necessary to guarantee depreciation and fair remuneration authorized investments “with express prohibition of extensions and renewals, including automatic ones”.
At the end of the Council of Ministers which approved the measures, the League talks about the text “improved “ thanks “to the acceptance of some of our proposals”. Text on which “we are already at workalso with sector associations “to” change and improve “in Parliament.” Priority “for the League”protect work, investments and sacrifices of entrepreneurs and beach workers “. Positive judgment also from 5 Star Movement which speaks of “satisfactory overall system” and “formally unlocked races”. For the M5S it is also “important to have protected family businesses and inserted the employment clause”.
According to the deputy leader of the PD in the Chamber, Piero De Luca, is “positive balance identified by the government on the bathing concessions “which” in our opinion achieves a reasonable synthesis between the different, legitimate interests in the field. Now it is up to Parliament to make its contribution with seriousness and a sense of responsibility, without any more ideological flags, to give certainty to such an important sector for the country “. Strong criticism instead by Brothers of Italy than with the tourism manager Gianluca Caramanna speaks of a “shocking” decision by the government which “decided to condemn a strategic sector for our nation such as that of seaside resorts” without “waiting for parliamentary discussion” and “in a moment of severe crisis “ of operators. For Fdi, then, “the attitude of those who, until yesterday, professed to be against the Bolkestein directive and today, on the other hand, are following this absurd decision of the executive, perplexes and generates dismay “.