With the ddl beaches we did a great job.
The goal is to protect businesses, seaside tourism and restart investments. I remember that this is a sector that is worth 50% of Italian tourism. One of the few in which an industrial logic lives. The controversies of Forza Italia on the instrument of delegation and on the contents are instrumental and childish. Because even the Berlusconi government had intervened with a delegation, which later expired, which regulated the tenders, without a transition period and without extensions ”. This is what the deputy leader of Ap Sergio Pizzolante, rapporteur of the Beaches bill, declares.
“We intervened in the sector because the sentences of the Italian courts already in 2009 declared the automatic renewal of concessions with respect to European law illegitimate. For the Treaties, before the Bolkestein. Then came the European infringement procedures. If we had not reacted, already in 2009, with an extension to 2015 - continues Pizzolante - the concessions would have been tendered without recognition of the value of the existing companies. Then the European Court of Justice declared the extension to 2020 illegitimate, equating it to automatic renewal. Those who today propose extensions of 50 years know very well that they would be rejected by the European Court of Justice without the possibility of an appeal for the Italian legislator, thus leading the sector to immediate tenders ”.
“After the sentence of the Court of Justice, one year ago, we have secured businesses with the Local Authorities decree, which declares the current concessions legitimate, pending the reform law. Which we approved in the House today and which, I hope, will soon be approved in the Senate to then write and approve the implementing decrees. The alternatives to this path would be: new infringement procedure and competitions immediately, without a net. The delegation - adds Pizzolante - provides for a suitable transition period from the old to the new system, then public evidence, not auctions, which presuppose a bid to raise the economic offer that will not take place. Because the canons will be established earlier. In the public evidence, reward mechanisms will be provided for current companies, for the professionalism acquired and the recognition of the economic value of the company. All thanks to the principles, established in the delegation, of legitimate expectations and national interest, also considered legitimate by the judgments of the European Court.