Roberto Cingolani Mario Draghi
Ecological transition, circular economy and urban waste: the nodes green of the Pnrr to be dissolved
Still trouble for the government in the Road map investment grounding of the National recovery and resilience plan. And more problems for the super technicians called by Mario Draghi to be part of its executive precisely with the aim of immediately imparting a rapid pace of march to the projects of Recovery.
After the headaches that ruined the sleep of the Minister of Technological Innovation Vittorio Colao and the flop of the first race on broadband in the smaller islands, this time it is his colleague in the Ecological Transition, Roberto Cingolani, having to solve more than one problem with public notices related to the modernization and efficiency of waste collection and recycling.
The reference in the Pnrr is at Mission 2 (ecological transition) Component 1 (the one that also includes thecircular economy), and on the tenders concerning the three lines of intervention relating to investment 1.1 of Recovery (municipal wasteurban waste resulting from separate collection and waste deriving from absorbents for personal use, sludge from waste water, waste from leather goods and textiles) and above all on the four notices relating to investment 1.2: plants for collection and recycling of WEEE wastefrom the plasticof the textile fractions in a systemic perspective and of the paper and cardboard supply chain.
With regard to this last call, the companies in the sector have seen fit to take a pen and paper and write to the offices of Cingolani, making known the Premier Draghi and the Antitrust. Unirima, the national union of waste recovery and recycling companiesin fact, he feared that the warning could go deserted and turn into another flop for the government due to an “interpretation adopted by the Mite” that “appears unreasonably restrictive” for the admissibility “of investments in circular economy projects” on paper and cardboard compared to the EU General Block Exemption Regulation (Gber), which in practice simplifies the procedures for granting state aid when the latter pursue important interests of the Union, such as environmental protection.
According to Unirima, “contrary to the spirit of the Pnrr and the legislation governing state aid for the waste recycling, in which the funding is not required to be allocated to the development of ‘new and innovative technologies’, the restrictive interpretation “adopted by the ministry of Cingolani “It imposes excessive project costs on economic operators and exacerbates the gap in participation terms between the companies that participate in the various investment lines of the tenders, in violation of competition rules”.
In practice, the companies in the supply chain complain, “the interpretation endorsed by the Mite appears disavowed by a reading of art. 47, co. 7 of the Gber Regulation in the other language versions “, for example in English or French, in which” the reference to the concept of improvement or better efficiency of the recycling activity appears “and” it would not be necessary to overcome the traditional process “. Also because, he observes among other things Unirima, the announcement does not contain any parameter that identifies what a traditional process is and, therefore, there are no criteria to establish when it can be said to be superseded by a technological innovation.
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