On the CNA Ambulanti website the interpretation of the Judgment of the EU Court (third section) of 20 April 2023. Directive 2006/123/EC on services in the internal market in article 12, paragraphs 1 and 2 provides for the "unconditional and sufficiently precise obligation for Member States to apply an impartial and transparent selection procedure to potential candidates […]
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The ANA celebrates the great result next Sunday at the weekly market in Fondi After three years of events, initiatives, debates, meetings, meetings, assemblies, sit-ins, letters, appeals and even slowdowns on the Bologna - Florence motorway, the No Bolkestein Associations they can celebrate the greatest result of their struggle: the definitive exit of street vendors from the Directive [...]
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“It was my priority that I put my face on and fought for. Today I can finally say that for the seaside world we managed to move something and bring home the first victory. The agreement was reached today in the Senate which allows for the extension of the exclusion of the Bolkestein directive for the next 15 years [...]
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“Our goal is to get out of the Bolkestein directive and bring to Europe a proposal that is credible, concrete and above all approved by EU technicians. And that it goes in the direction we have always said: bathing establishments are not part of the Bolkestein directive, they must stay outside ”. This is what the Minister declared [...]
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“The Italian government is removing the category of street vendors from the Bolkestein directive. It is a commitment that, across the board, politics took on with 196 thousand operators on public land during the election campaign: now the workers are waiting for a strong signal, namely the start of the process for the exclusion of the sector from Bolkestein. In the Dignity Decree about to be approved, the Government should insert the requests [...]
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“We express great satisfaction for the acceptance by the Italian government of the no-bolkestein motion presented by the forc senator Maurizio Gasparri”. This was stated in a note by Angelo Pavoncello, vice president of Ana - National Association of itinerants. "In the document, the Government undertakes to bring the necessary initiatives to the European Council, to be held in the next few hours (June 28-29) [...]
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In a press release, the National Association of the GOIA - Independent Organized Group Peddlers - wanted to highlight that despite the extension of the implementation of the Community Directive, the problems on the territory persist indeed they are having disastrous and in some ways alarming effects for the entire category. . Thus, then the National GOIA: "While waiting for politics to find a balance [...]
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”Today is a historic date for street vendors all over Italy. As an association Ana we have started an exclusive and vital dialogue with Fritz Bolkestein, the "father" of the European directive who bears his surname ". This was stated, in a note, by Angelo Pavoncello, vice president of the national association of itinerants (Ana) on the sidelines of the meeting held with Bolkestein [...]
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The news given by the father of the directive himself was welcomed with the ovation of all the bathing companies, which for years have lived with the nightmare of the Bolkestein Directive, seen as a trap. Indeed, he stated that bathing concessions are not services but goods, and that therefore the directive on the free movement of [...]
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"The national walking association (Ana) will be present tomorrow at the meeting with Firtz Bolkestein, organized by Donnedamare, where we will be able to hear live the voice of the" father "of the European directive that takes his name". This was announced, in a note, by Angelo Pavoncello, Ana's vice president. "We thank the promoters of the initiative, in particular Bettina Bolla, for the great effort made to [...]
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"I am in solidarity with the initiatives of the street vendors in Italy who have mobilized in recent months against the Bolkestein Directive and I hope that also thanks to the ANA they can be protected from the risk that their concessions will be banned with the risk that in a few years permanently lose ". Thus Francesco Graziani - known by all as [...]
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A GOIA press release reveals an all-Italian extravagance, FIVA and ANVA, by many called Cip and Ciop, now say that Bolkestein can and must be left. “We learn from the latest meetings of FIVA and ANVA their intention to oust the street vendors from the bolkestein. It is clear, therefore, that over the years they have only lied [...]
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The appointment is for Sunday 25 February in Turin in Corso Cincinnato, at the corner of Corso Toscana, from 15.00 pm. The meeting, open to all, will see hot topics on the agenda such as: the request for definitive exclusion of the category from the application of the Bolkestein directive, the national program for the sector and the actions in progress and those still available to reduce the [ ...]
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“New push for modern and smart markets with services and safety for operators and consumers” “Thanks to careful 'bipartisan' work, we have managed to extend the application of the effects of the Bolkestein directive to 2020, but that's not enough. We will not be satisfied until the last peddler is safe from European free market measures ”. To say it is [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) In the light of the "wrong and misleading" information circulating among the street vendors, the ANA decided to consult the highest authority on the matter, the Minister of Economic Development Carlo Calenda, to avoid doubts and unnecessary anxieties to a category that is already quite vexed. The concerns of the operators refer to the interpretations circulating on the notion [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The National Ambulatory Association is always at the forefront so as not to make the political parties forget that 2020 is just around the corner. 2020 marks the date of the further extension granted by the Government to the Peddlers category to postpone the dictates of the Bolkestein Community Directive. The next government will have to work for the definitive exit [...]
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Ana, the National Association of Peddlers, does not stop its battle against illegality. In recent days we have warned the municipality of Milan to proceed with the banning of the street vendors' licenses according to which the operators in the sector should have forwarded the applications by 18 January. And so, in the Lombard capital, the tenders are [...]
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“Street vendors from all over Italy can finally toast. The Senate approved the confidence on the 2018 Budget Law: the extension to 2020 for the entry into force of the Bolkestein directive is law. From today a new season starts for the category that will see us working hard, in close contact with the new government that we will have [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The transposition of the PD amendment to the Budget Law, the other day marked an important moment that all the vendors were waiting for: the exit of the vendors from the Bolkestein Directive and the extension of the concessions to 2020. L 'ANA - National Ambulance Association - among the associations of the category that stood out most for [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The street vendors of Italy were anxiously waiting. Two fundamental, indeed vital, amendments had been presented to the Budget Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, where the latest work on the Budget Law took place. The ax for the whole sector was December 2018, the date on which all the vendors' licenses, according to the Directive [...]
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The ANA (Associazione Nazionale Ambulanti), with a press release announces that "today in the Budget Committee of the Chamber of Deputies the amendments that provide for the extension to 31 December 2020 of the Bolkestein directive regarding the ban on licenses will be put to the vote of itinerant trade, or the definitive exclusion of the category from the European directive. [...]
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The Italian government officially takes a position on the amendment, currently under discussion in the Senate, which concerns the extension to 2023 for the banning of the concessions provided for street vendors by the Bolkestein directive. As representatives of the category, we proposed to include, in the text of the amendment, the purchase of a € 16 revenue stamp from [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) According to what was reported in a press release from the Campania Street Vendors Association - AVAC, Campania today also joined all the Italian regions in protest against an unjust Community Directive, the Bolkestein. The street vendors of Italy are fed up and want to defend their work with no ifs and buts. Many associations [...]
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The itinerant associations of Italy today throughout the country have organized a peaceful demonstration. The "protest of the vans". They slowed down the traffic and did not stop it because they too feel like working citizens and do not want to create discomfort for other Italian workers. In Rome, local associations have done the same on the Grande Raccordo Anulare [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The street vendors of Italy are fed up and want to defend their work without ifs and buts. Many associations were born spontaneously throughout the country. But the absolute novelty is the ANA - National Ambulant Association born last May, branched out throughout the national fabric, is implementing a single federative policy in [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Tomorrow, Thursday 9 November, the presentation conference of the National Ambulant Association (ANA) will be held at 12.00 in the Isma room (Istituto Santa Maria in Aquiro) in Piazza Capranica, 72 in Rome " . The ANA, already formally established in Rome last May, was born to overcome the fragmentation of the many associations [...]
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The ANA, already formally established in Rome last May, was born above all to overcome the fragmentation of the many itinerant associations that have given life to the extraordinary movement that in recent years have fought against the Bolkestein Directive. For this reason, in recent days some of the major representatives of Associations [...]
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We have done a great job with the beach bill. 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. Forza Italia's controversy over [...]
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The directors of the spontaneous associations of NO BOLKESTEIN street vendors from all over Italy (from Puglia to Lombardy) met today in Scandicci to coordinate the common initiatives to be carried out to obtain from the Government what they have been asking for months: the exclusion of the category from Bolkestein directive. A very hot autumn is expected in terms of events [...]
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AMBULANTI, PAVONCELLO (ANA): LET'S BACK TO THE STREET TO MANIFEST AGAINST BOLKESTEIN * “The category of street vendors in Italy is back in a state of agitation. Tomorrow, Sunday 24 September, all the NO Bolkestein associations will meet in Florence to establish the calendar and locations of the protest initiatives that will take place throughout the country ”. He announces it in a note [...]
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“Very serious low blow by the Democratic Party and the Government to Italian street vendors. The Democratic Party throws the mask and rejects in the Montecitorio chamber all the motions in favor of the exit of street vendors and bathing establishments from the Bolkestein directive, presented by various political parties. We are heartbroken, disappointed, angry: we ask ourselves why this government has decided to put [...]
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In the next few days the Chamber of Deputies will discuss in plenary session the motions presented by the Deputies of the PD, Forza Italia, the 5 Star Movement, the Northern League, the Brothers of Italy, the Italian Left and ALA. The Secretary General of the Associazione Imprese Oggi, Marrigo Rosato and the President of the National Association wrote this in a joint statement [...]
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