On motorway concessions the role of the Transport Authority
Its independence is a fundamental safeguard to ensure the impartiality and effectiveness of regulatory action
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Dear Director,
For a few days now, we have been reading about the news reported by your newspaper regarding resolution 75/2025 of this Authority. We would like to express our appreciation for the attention given to the issue, which is of great public importance, of motorway concessions.
The role of in-depth journalism is essential to promote correct information and stimulate an informed debate on issues that affect the quality of service and the efficiency of infrastructures for the benefit of the entire community. Reserving the right to provide precise indications on some of the issues raised, which in our opinion have not been correctly exposed, at the end of the ongoing proceedings, we feel it is our duty to provide some clarifications.
First of all, it is worth emphasising how the Authority's action, and in particular that of the current Consiliatura, has always been inspired by criteria of open and constructive dialogue with all the stakeholders. Proof of this can be seen in the numerous initiatives for dialogue with all stakeholders promoted by ART (fact-finding investigations, call for input, hearings, consultations), concrete tools for listening and participation. To these must be added the Authority's constant willingness to hold discussions even outside the procedural process of defining new regulatory measures, with the aim of deepening the parties' comments and fostering transparent and productive interaction.
Attention should also be drawn to the delicacy of the consultation phase currently underway. This phase, as is well known, is structured precisely to allow all stakeholders to submit their observations and proposals, in an institutional context that is capable of promoting a balanced synthesis between often heterogeneous requirements. In this framework, public interventions through the media, however animated by a constructive spirit, risk interfering with the proper conduct of the regulatory activity, undermining its independence and balance.
