The starting point is the need to clarify the content of the judgment with which the Tar, last December, upheld the appeal of Alitalia who asked to see the contract signed with Ryanair. For the first time Aeroporti di Puglia puts a staple in the affair on financing the low cost airline. The law, explain the company that manages the airports of Puglia, it does not impose the obligation to instruct a tender for contracts for the promotion of new and more routes, which is precisely what signed with Rynair .
“To dispel any doubts ADP – according to an official note – considers it necessary to clarify that no statutory provision requires airport operators the obligation to select the contractor contracts incentive for start and development of routes with tenders and / or public tenders. ” A clarification came a few days after news of the deposit by the financial police in the investigation of the information on the extension of the contract to Ryanair and the statements of the President of the Region, Michele Emiliano, who has not ruled out for the future , to resort to a tender for the selection of the company to which trust funds.
The company Aeroporti di Puglia clarifies how the lines guide, issued by the Ministry of Transport in October 2014, and then after the renewal of the contract with Ryanair only impose an obligation on airports to “publish the overall program of incentives that intend to activate the year and subsequent years.” Procedure which ensure, ADP has followed, posting on the site in April last year a notice in which, however, until now no company responded.
If Emiliano, who is the largest shareholder of majority, gave the mandate ricorerre however, although there are no legal it must ‘, in a tender, Aeroporti di Puglia, they reason in the offices of the company, would be ready to educate a public tender in the knowledge however that Ryanair would not participate (because the trade policy of the Irish carrier, until now, has never envisaged situations of this type).
The next week will be decisive. Emiliano, explaining the budget, reiterated that he would ask to be heard by prosecutors in Bari, which has 70 million investigation into the contract, signed by ADP with Ryanair in 2009 and on the extension, signed by the junta in 2014. For the when the dossier given to the magistrate Luciana Silvestris, it has a suspect and only the vein of inquiry concerning the original contract: Domenico Di Paola, former administrator of Aeroporti di Puglia, is accused of false and scam. The funding, granted to the Irish low cost to formally advertise Puglia on its website, it might have been a way, suspected financial police, to circumvent strict EU rules banning state aid to companies.
An investigation that prompted Emily to bring, for the first time, the case of the financing to Ryanair in the regional council. The assembly will be asked to approve, as off-balance sheet debt, 14 million euro installment of 2015, said the governor, “we would have had to pay at the end of
December in tourist service already done.” Thursday, however, the regional president will meet Claudia Bugno, vice president of public affairs of Alitalia. “It ‘clear – said the governor – who have Alitalia alongside Ryaniar strengthen airports of Puglia.” The Italian national airline could well make proposals and respond to the announcement last April to encourage new routes.
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