Green light from Italian Parliament to the commissioner of 58 works for a value of €66 billion

The Minister of Sustainable Infrastructure and Mobility, Enrico Giovannini, welcomes "with satisfaction" the opinions of the Public Works Commission of the Senate, the Environment and Transport Commissions of the Chamber on the draft decree of the President of the Council (Dpcm) relating to infrastructural interventions subjected to a commissioner. Last week, during a hearing in front of the same Commissions, the Minister reminded the Commissions of the need to proceed rapidly with the adoption of the decrees - March 11, 2021 "Now it is possible to accelerate the construction of 58 important works for the development of our country, long awaited by citizens and businesses", comments Minister Giovannini. "We will proceed immediately with the completion of the Dpcm process so that the commissioners can start the the whole country will benefit from it", says the Minister, "and in particular the South, where the largest share of investment is expected. The start-up of activities will also provide a stimulus to employment and economic recovery, allowing a shift of traffic in favor of rail transport, in line with the objective of more environmentally sustainable development, better protection of water resources, threatened by the climate crisis, the strengthening of our ports and the improvement of public security services. An extraordinary commitment will be required from the commissioners, the companies and, in particular, those who will work on the construction sites ". In this regard, the Minister recalls the protocol signed with the social partners in December 2020 which, in accordance with the rules of the national contract, optimizes work shifts, even in teams operating 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, to make more the construction sites of the commissariate infrastructures and to encourage the increase of employment in conditions of complete safety. Overall, the works subject to the commissioner are: 14 road infrastructures, 16 railway infrastructures, a subway (metro line C in Rome), 12 water infrastructures, 3 port infrastructures, 12 infrastructures for public safety. The 58 works have already available financing of approximately 40 billion euros, against a total cost of €66.1 billion. Of these, €26.9 billion are destined for infrastructures located in the South, €21.6 billion for interventions located in the North and €17.6 billion for works in Central Italy. €46 billion euros are allocated to the construction of railway works, €10.8 to road infrastructures, €5.8 billion for rapid mass transport, €1.7 billion for port infrastructures. The criteria used to identify the works to be carried out with the commissioner take into account the planning or executive complexity, but also their impact on the socio-economic fabric at national, regional and local level. The infrastructures to be commissioned, provided for in the Dpcm, are largely contained in the strategic planning document 'Italia Veloce', attached to the 2020 Economic and Finance Document, which defined a framework of strategic and priority interventions for the development of the country. Some of these works are also included in the proposal of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. "This is only a first step", adds the Minister. "In a short time, after we have defined with the Parliament and the Conference of Presidents of the Regions the general criteria for identifying the works, also taking into account what was observed in the evaluations expressed today by Parliament and the Conference, we will present a second list of interventions for which appoint commissioners. But it should be remembered that recourse to the commissioner must not be the practice. It is therefore necessary to proceed in parallel to simplify procedures and ordinary obligations and strengthen the Public Administration by hiring personnel with specific technical skills and in the sectors of innovation and digitization" . The railway works, included in the Dpcm, which received the favorable opinion of the parliamentary committees, include: the high-speed / high-capacity Brescia-Verona-Padua section, the upgrading of the Venice-Trieste line, the upgrading with high-speed characteristics of the Salerno-Reggio Calabria line and of the Taranto-Metaponto-Potenza-Battipaglia line, the construction of the Palermo-Catania-Messina high-speed / high-capacity axis, the restoration of the Palermo-Trapani line (via Milo), the closure of the the Rome railway ring, the completion of the doubling of the Pontremoli railway axis, the construction of works on the Naples-Bari railway section, while the intervention for rapid mass transport concerns the Rome Metro C. Between road infrastructures, interventions are planned for the strengthening of the 106 Ionica state road, the Salaria state road, the state 17 of the Abruzzo and Appulo-Samnite Apennines, the Gargano state road and the E 78 Grosseto-Fano. The port works concern the Europa dock in the port of Livorno, the new dam in the port of Genoa and the relaunch of shipbuilding in the port of Palermo. For water infrastructures, interventions are planned for the safety of the Peschiera Aqueduct (which serves central Italy and Rome) and 10 dams in Sardinia and Sicily. Finally, interventions are planned in barracks and multipurpose centers of public safety in Bologna, Catania, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Reggio Calabria and Rome. Source: Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (Italy)

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