Seaside concessions, majority agreement reached. But on the amount of the compensation everything is postponed

MILANO – The majority would have found an agreement on the reformulation of the government’s amendment on the bathing establishments competition bill. The agreement would have been reached this mattiona in the course of the meeting between the political forces to resolve one of the most controversial knots of the bill. Basically, compensation is provided for outgoing concessionaires but the criteria for its quantification are deferred to the delegated decrees. Now the text will be examined by the budget committee and then approved by the industry committee which plans to close the vote on the competition bill on the same day.

“Certainly this last knot has been untied and many knots have untied. This month has been decidedly intense because the issues that have been addressed are some more than ten years old (that of almost secular seaside resorts) and involve a whole series of interests, certainly private but also If we think at a time like this of the question of gas rather than hydroelectricity and therefore energy which is one of the crucial issues of our economic and social life “, commented the Deputy Minister for Economic Development, Gilberto Picketto.

Pichetto is following the procedure of the provision for the government and this morning presented the latest reformulation of the amendment to article 2 to the majority, adding that “the seaside is one of the areas of great development in the country, which gives opportunities for tourism in Italy is not all seaside but its weight is considerable on this 13% of the GDP that represents tourism in Italy and it is a ‘highway’ that we have before us and that we must know how to grasp. on the one hand, the best part that exists but also creates the opportunities for further growth, in the sense of a competitive stimulus, is not a question that should be limited to the operators alone but it is a question that concerns the whole country “.

Misiani (Pd): “Positive and reasonable solution”

An absolutely positive and reasonable solution “. This is how the head of the Economy of the Democratic Party, Antonio Misiani, defined the majority agreement on the bathing concessions.” We have worked intensely on it in the last few hours, we believe that in the end the delegated decrees, which will be discussed by the Council of Ministers, will resolve the issue of “compensation” well by finding a good balance – he explained after the meeting between the majority and the government in the Senate -. The government has collected a series of proposals to file the text. Now there are all the conditions to approve the competition bill overcoming this last obstacle “.