No extension for Sardinian beach resorts; current concessions expire in September 2027. Then, the Bolkestein directives will come into force, requiring a competitive tender process and prohibiting the automatic renewal of concessions.
The League's attempted blitz ran aground in the Senate Budget Committee , which rejected Romeo's first-signature amendment, which provided for a three-year extension , until September 2030, of concessions in areas where "coastal damage caused by erosion" has been recorded and in the event of "exceptional meteorological events", such as those that hit Sardinia, Calabria and Sicily last January and for which a state of national emergency was declared.
The commission rejected the amendment proposed by the League to the Commissioners' decree, which had been opposed by the Ministry of Economy, led by the League's Giorgetti, due to its cost .
The amendment, approved by the Environment Committee, was blocked by the Budget Committee due to the lack of adequate financial coverage .
(Unioneonline/L)
