Forza Italia accelerates simplifications for Ncc, but Fdi and Lega make a wall

There is a clash in the majority on the regulation of taxis and nccs. Forza Italia in the Transport Committee of the Chamber of Deputies has asked to start examining one of its bills, deposited last summer, which in fact undermines the Toninelli-Rixi reform of the sector by removing a series of constraints on the chauffeur-driven hire service. Objective: 'To improve the mobility of Italians and reduce costs,' explains the first signatory of the pdl Andrea Caroppo. But the risk is that the taxi driver category will not like it. And the other two government shareholders, FdI and Lega, are stonewalling.

Gthe allies do not fit. And they ask for more reflection and confrontation. "Forza Italia has reiterated its willingness to pursue its own bill on taxis and NCCs, but in the Bureau President Deidda was clear: a meeting between the majority and the government is necessary to share the results of the Commission's investigation and arrive at a common synthesis. The investigation, thanks to the hearings held, was very useful and confirmed that the current legislation remains a cornerstone, it can certainly be improved, but not overturned. We are also waiting for the MIT to issue the implementing decrees on platforms and the service sheet, the natural completion of the regulatory framework governing non-scheduled public service. Moreover, Fratelli d'Italia has always clearly expressed its opposition to these bills, highlighting from the very beginning the absence of a majority agreement,' attacks Fabio Raimondo, leader of the Fratelli d'Italia group in the Transport Commission.

"On taxis and Nccs, the Lega's line has always been clear and consistent: no to wild deregulations that would deliver the sector into the hands of multinationals and algorithms, penalising operators and users, and instead move forward with the path of the implementing decrees provided for by Law 12 of 2019, finally unblocked with courage and determination by Minister Matteo Salvini," echoed Elena Maccanti, leader of the Lega in the Transport Commission at the Chamber. "The first concrete result has already arrived with Rent, the national electronic register of taxi and Ncc companies, a fundamental tool to guarantee effective controls and transparently map the operators present on the territory. Now we are waiting for the imminent decree on the electronic service sheet, an indispensable safeguard against abusive practices, while work continues on the decree on technological platforms". "The League," adds Maccanti, "will continue to support this path of reform that guarantees certain rules, dignity for the categories, and an end to all forms of illegality in non-scheduled public transport"

But the Azzurri, who put this 'liberal' bill at the centre of one of the first group meetings in the Chamber of Deputies, under Enrico Costa's new course, do not seem at all willing to back down. "If we will pursue our proposal? Of course, we are not joking,' Caroppo replies. 'We are not outside the line of the majority but in line with our historical thinking'. The deputy, in fact, recalls that the Azzurri did not vote for the sector reform of the then yellow-green government, 'battered by the Tar, Council of State and Constitutional Court', in short - he cuts it short - 'a failure'. Now the main change that the Forzisti would like to introduce is the transfer from the municipalities to the regions of the competence for the Ncc, with the possibility of providing the service within all the municipalities of the regional territory. Then, there is the elimination of the electronic service sheet, the go-ahead for more than one service during the same day without having to return to the garage, and the possibility of the user's destination being in a Region other than the one that issued the authorisation. So far the transport commission has carried out a fact-finding investigation, which according to the Melonians 'has been very useful and has confirmed that the current legislation remains a cornerstone. It can certainly be improved,' they warn, 'but not overturned'