The Minister for infrastructure and transport having regard to Regulation (EC) no 1008/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of September 24, 2008 on common rules for the operation of air services in the community and in particular art. 16 and the art. 17; Having regard to the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union, and in particular articles 2 paragraph 106, 107 and 108; Having regard to the Commission communications on the application of the European Union State aid rules to compensation granted for the provision of services of general economic interest (OJ EU 2012/C 8/02) and decision of the European Commission concerning the application of the provisions of art. 106, paragraph 2, of the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union to state aid in the form of public service compensation granted to certain undertakings entrusted with the operation of services of general economic interest (OJ EU 2012/L 7); Visto l'art. 36 of the Act May 17, 1999, n. 144, which assigns to the Minister of transport and navigation (now Minister of infrastructure and transport), the competence to dispose by Decree, the imposition of public service obligations on routes in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 2408/92, repealed and replaced by Regulation (EC) no 1008/2008; Visto l'art. 2, paragraph 236) (a), of the law of December 24, 2007, # 244 (2008 budget law), which provides that a decree of the Minister of transport, necessary actions are identified for the reinforcement and safety of the Reggio Calabria airport to ensure territorial continuity to and from the airport as well as the territorial continuity of the island, up to EUR 1.5 million for the year 2008; Visto l'art. 1 of the Decree of the Minister of transport n. 14/T on January 24, 2008, which makes the sum of 1.5 million mentioned above, for public service obligations necessary to ensure the territorial continuity of the island, in accordance with the provisions laid down in Regulation (EEC) no 2408/92 of July 23, 1992, now repealed and replaced by Regulation (EC) no 1008/2008; Visto l'art. 43 of law No 77 of December 27, 2012, published in Bollettino Ufficiale della Regione Toscana n. 74 of December 27, 2012 (2013 budget law), which authorizes the Regional Council to provide extraordinary contributions up to a maximum amount of EUR 350,000.00 for each of the years from 2013 to 2015, in order to contribute to the payment of public service obligations for air links with the island of Elba; Having regard to the Ministerial Decree No. 280 of the Minister for infrastructure and transport May 10, 2010 pro-tempore, published in Gazzetta Ufficiale-serie generale-# 126 of 1 St June 2010 concerning «impose public service obligations on routes Elba Marina di Campo-Pisa and vice versa, Elba Marina di Campo-Florence and back», as amended by Ministerial Decree No. 988 of October 15, 2010 , published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale-serie generale-# 13 of January 18, 2011, which has postponed the date of entry into force of such charges, to March 27, 2011; Given the need to identify new parameters on which to articulate a new impose public service obligations on airline connections with the island of Elba, through a new conference services; View the delegation conferred with note # 33710 of September 25, 2012 by the Deputy Minister of infrastructure and transport to the President of the Tuscany region, pursuant to art. 36, paragraph 2, of the law May 17, 1999, n. 144, to convene and chair the Conference services in order to identify the content of the imposition of public service obligations on routes Elba Marina di Campo-Pisa and vice versa, Elba Marina di Campo-Florence and vice versa, Elba Marina di Campo-Milano Linate; Having regard to the findings of the Conference services, held in December 11, 2012 days and January 29, 2013; Considered it necessary to ensure connections concerned between the port of the island and those of Pisa, Florence and Milan Linate; Considering that it is necessary to cease from the date of publication of this Decree the effects of obligations imposed on flights to and from the island of Elba, as identified by the Ministerial Decree No 280 of May 10, 2010;
Decrees: Art. 1 Limited to the purposes pursued by this Decree, the scheduled air service on routes Elba Marina di Campo-Pisa and vice versa, Elba Marina di Campo-Florence and vice versa, Elba Marina di Campo-Milano Linate and vice versa, constitutes a service of general economic interest.