Regional Board has decided to fund only “the high-priority actions envisaged
in the Ambit Plan” 12, with the underlying awareness of being required to
guarantee in any case for the construction of that sewage and water treatment
infrastructure required for the full enforcement of the Directive 2000/60/EC.
However the Regional Action Plan interim report has highlighted some critical
points essentially linked to the implementation of the actions in terms of
sewage and water treatment cycle. In particular, economic problems have
emerged in the use of public/private capital for the construction of
infrastructure related to the integrated cycle of water.
The total demand for investments foreseen by the ATOs plans has been
estimated to be on the order of 2,000 MEuros, only for the 5 years of
investments, with a demand for public aid, in the form of a tariff integration,
on the order of 470 MEuros. In addition, the ATOs Plans do not take into
account most of the actions already underway on the part of those entities
placed under controlled management to counter the environmental
emergencies of the Campania Region. In this sense the Campania Region
prescribes to cover only a portion of the demand of public expenditure by the
Integrated Water Service, at least in the initial period. The Regional Action
Plan resources (265.6 MEuros over an estimated cost of 544.9 MEuros, i.e.
48.7%) are supplemented by other financial resources: tariff increases
essentially envisaged to cover the actions planned by the Ambit Plans and by
the Framework Program Agreement, as under the legislation in this field, and
other funds allocated by national sources.
If we consider that the present public expenditure already exceeds the
resources of the Regional Action Plan, we can readily understand how
important is to attract private capitals to this sector. From the other hand, also
the non elevated profitability of the capital invested has to be considered.
12 Shouldn’t the passage of management functions have been completed, the procedures
contained in the guiding notes of the Management Authority of the Community Support
Framework in terms of modalities of action implementation (Cfr. “Note on the modalities of
implementation of the Integrated Water System in the Regional Action Plan (2nd Phase 2003-
2006)” worked out by the Management Authority of the Community Support Framework and
disseminated by a note of April 14, 2003), and the standardized calculation of the self-funding
percentage of the same actions (Cfr. “Document for the determination of participation of
Structural Fund in profit-generating investment” elaborated by the DPS/SFS and disseminated
by a note of June 27, 2003), shall apply.
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