
The Minister of Tourism to ANSA: "The game is not over yet, let's carry forward Italy's requests"
Tourism Minister Gianmarco Mazzi announces to ANSA that the standard tender for seaside resorts will be presented at the joint State-Regions Conference on 22 October, underlining the Government's attention to the Bolkestein directive.
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The issue of beach concessions and the Bolkestein directive has been at the center of Italian political debate since the early 2000s.
"The issue of seaside resorts is being paid attention to by the Government. I can also give some news that Minister Matteo Salvini has authorized me to give: on 22 October he will present the standard tender to the Unified State-Regions Conference". This was announced by the Minister of Tourism Gianmarco Mazzi in an interview with ANSA during the visit to the corner that the Agency has this year at the Ttg Travel Experience and InOut - The Hospitality Community in Rimini where the General States of the seaside resorts are being held today.
"I am in constant contact with Minister Salvini on this matter because it is very important to our ministries."
"The issue - says the minister - is a delicate issue, it starts from a long time ago because I want to remind you that everything concerning the Bolkestein directive, everything that follows from it, is something that actually belongs to the early 2000s. We have been paying attention to it since the beginning of the legislature. At this moment there has been this order from the European Court of Justice which has opened a window on this issue of the scarcity or otherwise of resources".
"The technical table of the Presidency of the Council - says Mazzi - also made a map of the employed in relation precisely to this concept of scarcity or otherwise of resources. And they indicated to me an important fact: we are always talking about 8 thousand km of coasts in Italy which are obviously not all suitable for bathing, but this figure even reaches 11 thousand, considering how jagged these coasts are, the bends, the coves, the coves, so we are talking about a number that makes us a unique nation in Europe.
So we will continue on this theme also trying to harmonize let's say the declination and grounding also with all the municipalities by giving guidelines.
I use this formula to make myself understood: the game is not over yet, we are still carrying forward, as we have been doing since the beginning of the legislature, Italy's requests and we trust that we can say that we can be heard".
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Presentation of the standard announcement in the Unified Conference
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