Motorways, toll increases of 1.5 per cent from 1 January

Political storm at the toll booth. From 1 January 2026, motorway toll increases will be triggered: 1.5% on average for all concessionaire companies for which the procedure to update their Pefs (economic-financial plans) is underway. This was announced in a note by the MIT (Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport), which emphasised: 'The efforts of Minister Salvini and the government have been thwarted, from January tariffs will increase'.

The increases affect almost the entire national network, including the sections managed by Aspi (Autostrade per l'Italia), Milano Serravalle, Satap (Astm group), Cav, Brescia Padova, Pedemontana Lombarda, Brebemi (direct Brescia-Milan), Milan's outer ring road, Naples' ring road. For the Concessioni del Tirreno (A10 and A12 sections), Ivrea-Torino-Piacenza (A5 and A21 sections) and Strada dei Parchi (A24-A25 Roma L'Aquila and Torano-Pescara branch motorways), during the regulatory period, there are no changes in tariffs to be paid by users, while a 1.925% change is recognised for the Salerno-Pompei-Naples concessionaire. Finally, a tariff adjustment of 1.46% is recognised for the Autostrada del Brennero company, whose concession has expired and is currently being re-tendered (the tender procedure is open).

The MIT identifies sentence number 147 deposited by the Constitutional Court on 14 October 2025 as the cause of the price increases: 'The contrary sentence of the Constitutional Court,' writes the MIT, 'has thwarted the efforts of the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini and of the government itself to freeze the tariffs until the new regulatory pef are defined. The Transport Regulatory Authority (Art) then determined that the tariff adjustment to inflation will be 1.5 per cent. This is what was established, following the decisions of the Constitutional Court and Art, on which the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport can no longer intervene'.

The Consulta's ruling in effect gave a green light to toll increases. The judges rejected the regulations that, from 2020 to 2023, had postponed motorway toll adjustments pending the new EFPs. The verdict censures the postponements contained in decree-laws 162/2019 and 183/2020 - and so on to subsequent derogations - for being contrary to Articles 3, 41 and 97 of the Constitution. The constitutional judges were called into judgment by the Council of State, which had to rule on the appeal of a motorway concessionaire against two notes of the MIT: the two documents had not recognised the tariff adjustments for 2020 and 2021, jeopardising - according to the concessionaire - the continuity of administrative action, with negative effects on the freedom of enterprise and social utility. In fact, the Constitutional Court agreed with the concessionaire. However, it also pointed out the alternative way to prevent the price increases: "The need to ensure the application of the new tariff system, in the face of allegedly conflicting requests by the concessionaire, could already be satisfied by the application of the resolutions of both the CIPE and Art that had intervened in the meantime".