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Motorways A24 and A25, that’s why Draghi asphalts Toto

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Motorways A24 and A25, that's why Draghi asphalts Toto

The government revoked the concession for the A24 and A25 motorways. Here because. Facts, insights and comments

Draghi against Toto: the concession of the A24 and A25 motorways, managed by the Abruzzo group Toto, will be revoked.

Yesterday, in fact, the Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility, Enrico Giovannini, gave a report to the Council of Ministers on the situation of the A24 / 25 Motorways and the Council took note of the termination of the concession relationship with the Strada dei Parchi Spa company. .

Green light, therefore, to a decree-law that governs the management of the two highways by Anas.

The revocation follows the failure to define the Economic and Financial Plan and the government's complaint of serious breaches made to the concessionaire, is written in the final statement of the Council of Ministers.

THE NOTE FROM THE MINISTRY RULED BY GIOVANNINI

Then a note from the Ministry of Infrastructures led by Giovannini clarified: «The CDM has approved the decree that gives immediate effect to the resolution of the agreement of November 18, 2009, signed between Anas and Strada dei Parchi. This provision takes into account the results of the procedure for serious breach, activated in December 2021 by the general management of MIMS, in consideration of the many criticalities encountered in the management of the motorway, including the inadequate state of maintenance. The law decree – continues the note – provides for the immediate takeover of Anas in the management of the motorway which, to ensure the continuity of the motorway operation, will be able to make use of all the human and instrumental resources currently employed, including the toll collection staff, that used directly in operational activities and the equipment, vehicles and machinery necessary to ensure the service. It is also expected that the National Agency for the safety of railways and road and motorway infrastructures (Ansfisa) will launch an inspection plan to verify the safety conditions of the entire motorway infrastructure. For users, any further variation of the rates is excluded, which remain unchanged for the future compared to those of 2017 ".

WHAT THE DECREE CONTAINS

The decree law also contemplates measures for the regulation of relations with the lapsed concessionaire in relation to the compensation due under the current legislation, without prejudice to the right to compensation for damages in favor of Mims. Stefano Patuanelli, Cinquestelle Minister of Agricultural Policies says: «It is a historic decision. Finally the power between the concessionaires and the State is rebalanced ».

SUN ANALYSIS 24 HOURS

An outcome somehow announced, after the letter sent, last May, by the Toto group to the ministries of Infrastructure and Economy, in which Strada dei Parchi had asked the grantor to start the procedures for withdrawal and early termination of the concession pursuant to article 11.11 of the same agreement, the newspaper Sole 24 Ore reconstructs today: "In the letter SdP, he had quantified the compensation requested from the State at 2.4 billion for the early termination of the contract, as required by the concession whose natural expiration was set at 2030. A sensational move, matured after the rejection (by the Cipess) of the umpteenth Economic and Financial Plan (Pef), that is the tool to secure the 280 kilometers of motorway from the risk of earthquakes and to adapt the infrastructure, which connects the Tyrrhenian to the Adriatic, to the new European and national regulations. A stalemate that paradoxically began with the ratification of an urgency by Parliament: from the approval of law 228/2012 which established that A24 and A25 were considered strategic for civil protection purposes and therefore urgently needed to be secured. For this reason it was essential to approve a new Pef that would allow the necessary seismic adaptation, the safety of the viaducts and the renewal of the safety systems in the tunnel, as well as sustainable tariffs for users. Since then, 18 proposals made by the concessionaire and a sentence of the Council of State (n. 5022/19) have not been required, which required the adoption of this Pef within the mandatory deadline of October 30, 2019 ".

THE DEFENSE OF TOTO

To reach this sensational turning point, however, the government has chosen not to follow up the procedure initiated by the Toto company but to implement that article 35 which was repeatedly evoked by the 5 Star Movement for Aspi after the collapse of the Morandi Bridge. And this is what makes Strada dei Parchi say that it is "an abuse against which we will react in all locations". The company of the Toto group explains: «Too bad that in the case of Genoa, rightly or wrongly, art. 35 was not used, despite repeated threats to do so in the face of the indignation of public opinion shaken by the tragic consequences of the incident. While it is claimed to apply it to SdP, only on the basis of the asserted assumption, imagined by the ministry without any evidence, that sooner or later some accident may happen ".

A thesis that can also be found in the tweeted comment by Paolo Madron, founder and director of Tag43 , a site that also in the past defended the Abruzzo group.

THE REPUBLIC SCENARIO

"La Strada dei Parchi Spa (therefore the Toto family) invokes a record compensation of 2.4 billion euros – the newspaper Repubblica commented today – Money that should compensate for the lack of remuneration of the investments, the missed tariff increases, the missed future revenues . The concession, which began in 2000, would have its natural conclusion in 2030. Ten years have now passed since Law 228 of 2012 which requires the anti-seismic safety of Italian motorways ".

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/autostrade-a24-e-a25-ecco-perche-draghi-toto/ on Fri, 08 Jul 2022 06:51:55 +0000.