ZES Strategic plan, the Region said yes

 

The Government has the last word for the final ok

 

ZES Sardegna CIPNES puzzle

The Special Economic Zone of    Sardinia takes shape and begins the      official process towards its establishment.

2.770 hectares of areas connected to harbour zones will enjoy administrative and fiscal simplifications in order to favor the development of already installed companies or those will settle in that perimeter.

The Council approved the Zes strategic Plan, which is already on the table of the Government: it was illustrated today by the President of the Region Francesco Pigliaru and the Programming Councillor Raffaele Paci, with the president of the System Authority Port of Sardinia Massimo Deiana. The particularity, and novelty, compared to the other regions, is that Sardinia has chosen to establish a single large Zes by networking the six ports with retroport areas, to make synergy a real strength.

The strategic Plan for the institution of the Special Economic Zone in Sardinia has been elaborated after the meetings carried on to last July from the Councilor Paci with the local administrations and the industrial consortia of the interested zones, sush as Cagliari (that will have 1628 hectares of zes), Portovesme therefore Carbonia-Iglesias (110 hectares), Olbia then north-east Sardinia (180 hectares), Porto Torres with Sassari and Alghero (500 hectares), Oristano (219 hectares) and Ogliastra (56 hectares).

Paci with the Port Authority of Sardinia and the Regional Councilors of Industry, Local Authorities and Transport participated to the meetings. The contribution collected was necessary to perfect the Plan, with indications coming directly from the territories.

 

 

 

 

Press review:

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Cipnes updates and integrates the programmatic proposal of the Special Economic Zone for industrial consortium areas in connection with the activation of the Customs Free Zone

In the light of what emerged on the occasion of the consortium hearing local authorities held last July 27th in Olbia, at the consortium's headquarters, in the presence of the institutional summits of the Region of Sardinia and the Presidency of the Sardinian Sea Port System Authority, the Cipnes-Gallura, in order to define the constitutive process of the Strategic Plan of the SEZ for which the Region of Sardinia is responsible, has prepared and forwarded to the Regional Programming Centre of the RAS Programming Department, the additional documents and revision of the previous delimitation of the SEZ areas related to the consortium industrial zone of Olbia.

Cipnes, as part of an inclusive strategy of territorial rebalancing consistent with the inspiring principles of the SEZ and in implementation of the European Cohesion Policy, has integrated the original project proposal with updated documentary content aimed at supporting the Region in the elaboration of an appropriately shared Strategic Development Plan that enhances the territorial specialisation activities of the consortium production districts and relaunches the cork and granite industrial districts of Gallura.

Cipnes, moreover, with resolution no. 21/4 of 15 April 2016, and in line with the choice of the municipality of Olbia, had already been identified by the Regional Council as the managing body of the "non-interclosed" customs free zone, with attached authorization under the "active processing" regime.

 

 

- Transmission letter prot. 4783/2018

- Resolution General Assembly n. 13 of 03.08.2018

Elaborate replacements:

- Table 3.00 consortium industrial area: areas and buildings to be included in the SEZ

- Attachment A Strategic Programming Plan Consortium Production Districts of Olbia and industrial centres of Monti and Buddusò-Alà dei Sardi

Supplementary processed:

- Attachment E - SEZ Sardinia: Gallura and the SEZ industrial districts

To find out more:

- Resolution No. 21/4 of 15 April 2016

Proposal for the activation of a customs-free zone in the port of Olbia in accordance with art. 12 of Law 3/1948 and Legislative Decree no. 75/1998.

Special Economic Zones (Z.E.S.): a conference about the CIPNES-Gallura Strategic Plan

 

 IMG 20180618 173959 tThe conference organized at the Geovillage of Olbia by CIPNES Gallura was a success. Special Economic Zones have been mentioned: areas that are limited and defined by laws in which bureaucratic, administrative and fiscal processes are simplified in function of an easy establishment of new economic realities.

A crowded room with institutions, professionals and entrepreneurs listened carefully to what was analyzed by the numerous speakers of the conference, which was also accredited by the Order of Olbia Tempio Accountants and by the Doctors of Agronomists.

To play host the Mayor of Olbia, Settimo Nizzi, which after the institutional greetings has emphasized the active role and the collaboration that the Municipality of Olbia has made available to facilitate the implementation of a strategic plan for the Special Economic Zone creation.

The conference continued with the Pier Luigi Caria intervention, Regional Councilor for Agriculture, who, on behalf of the whole Council, expressed the utmost willingness to pursue the objective, which provides for the creation of Zes in Sardinia, through appropriate regional framework rules delegating to industrial consortia the details and legislative project implementation.

aldo berlinguerThen the floor has given to the president of CIPNES, Mario Gattu, who thanked the attendances and highlighted how the Cala Saccaia body is particularly committed to the territory growth and how important is the of the Special Economic Zone institution.

More detailed and full of normative references was the intervention of the of CIPNES general director, Aldo Carta, who precisely exposed the history of the Zes, which would have been foreseen, with different names, already in the special statute of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia in 1948.

It is with the Port Authorities reform in 2016 that the topic has is back to being topical and the depressed economy regions of the South will be the ones that will be able to benefit significantly from the new legislative instrument.

Aldo Carta also recalled that the Sardinia region with resolution n. 21/4 of 15 April 2016, shared with the Municipality of Olbia the need to activate a "non-closed" free customs zone with an attached authorization within the "functional inprovement" regime, in line with the choice of the Olbia Municipality, has identified Cipnes-Gallura Industrial Consortium the managing entity.

The conference continued with the speeches of Antonio Catgiu, deputy Director of CIPNES and Gian Paolo Saba, from the CIPNES European Programming Office, who described the state of fact and the strategic plan of the Institution. CIPNES intends to allocate to the Special Economic Zone about 300 hectares, proposing itself as a true partner in support of the enterprises, able to coordinate functions, services and resources implementing on local reality the planning idea placed at the base of the legislative initiative on Zes, in order to value the 4 driving sectors of the consortium agglomeration: agroalimentary, logistic, nautical and natural stone industry.

The speech of Prof. Aldo Berlinguer, full professor of Comparative Law at the University of Cagliari and maximum expert of the subject in question, as well as curator of the in-depth study "Ports, retroports and special economic zones”, has opened the discussion to the external speakers partecipating at the convention.

 According to Berlinguer “Zes are containers where inside there is everything that can facilitate businesses and make their permancence welcoming and attractive. They are places where the State stimulates and helps the production processes. Zes systemizes great infrastructures, competences, services with the simplification of the bureaucratic procedures, customs charges reduction and differentiated tax system that rewards those who produce and those who export the most”.

 Of particular interest was the intervention of Bernardo Mattarella, Managing Director of Medio Credito Centrale SpA (a company with a sole shareholder INVOLVINA SpA), which underlined the importance of the credit to access by companies, especially in Southern Italy. Mattarella has therefore announced the subscription, occurred shortly before the convention, of an agreement with the CIPNES-Gallura (the first of this type realized in Sardinia) finalized to facilitating the access to credit and entrepreneurial development for companies located and operating in the consortium industrial area, which are considered worthy in order to obtain public support facilities.

The intervention of Gabriela Savigni, President of the Olbia Tempio Accountants Order, has mainly concerned the need for the companies to make easier the tax management to which they are subjected, seeing in the Zes as an important instrument of attraction and simplification.

Very rich of contents has also been the participation of Massimo Deiana, full professor of Maritime Law at University of Cagliari and president of the Harbour System Authority of Sardinia, which illustrated the importance of the Harbour authority and ports in particular, in the development of a coordinated project for the establishment of special economic zones, announcing the maximum collaboration of the agency of harbour coordination by him presided, for the management and the development of the strategic plan that carries to the institution of the Zes.

Luca Danese, Head of Institutional Relations Eurispes, has concluded the activities by noting the proximity to CIPNES of the founded institute and chaired by Gian Maria Fara, and the maximum willingness to collaborate on the project presented.

 

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Conference on Special Economic Zones

 

CIPNES organizes the conference "Strategic development proposal, CIPNES production districts, Special Economic Zone S.E.Z." scheduled in Olbia at the Geovillage conference room on Monday, June 18, 2018 from 16.30.

 

Prof. Aldo Berlinguer, author of the in-depth study "Ports, back ports and special economic zones", writes: " SEZ  are an established reality. In the world there are almost 4,000 of them, of various types, with over 70 million people employed. [...] They bring together great infrastructures, skills, services with the simplification of bureaucratic procedures, reduction of customs charges and a differentiated tax system that rewards those who produce and those who export more. [...] Some call them liberal economy zones, meaning places where the State encourages and helps production processes without stifling them. This is on condition that the rules, though simplified, are respected and that the environment, health and workers' rights are protected".

Also Italy has been endowed with a discipline of the ZES with the reform of the harbour authorities of 2016 and the decree law "Resto al Sud" of 2017. The legislation is currently a framework: to establish the SEZ is necessary the regional strategic plans approval by the Government.

Still quoting Prof. Berlinguer "State and local authorities must now show that they know how to make a system and not disperse in the thousand rivulets of the usual patronage policy. On the contrary: what is needed is a concentration of resources and a lower tax burden. Only in this way we can attempt to face the great global players, like China today, which scientifically carries out a policy of world economic hegemony with irresistibly competitive free zones and with the systematic acquisition of the fundamental infrastructures of the strategic Countries".

 

In the desired implementation perspective of the SEZ also in Sardinia, CIPNES has drawn up its own Strategic Plan for the industrial consortium areas managed by the Authority, which will be illustrated during the conference.

In addition, besides Prof. Aldo Berlinguer, all the present members will discuss, Massimo Deiana, President of the Cagliari Port Authority, Dr. Luca Danese, responsible for institutional relations at Eurispes, Dr. Emiliano Deiana, President of ANCI Sardegna, Dr. Bernardo Mattarella, Managing Director of Banca del Mezzogiorno, and Gabriela Savigni, President of the Order of Accountants of Olbia-Tempio.
Councillor Pier Luigi Caria will represent the Region.

 

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CIPNES defines the strategy of the Special Economic Zone for Olbia, Buddusò and Monti

 

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With the approval of the projects for the delimitation and strategic development of the areas and real estate of relevance, the Cipnes Gallura has defined the activation of the Special Economic Zone (Zes), in accordance with the provisions of Decree Law 91/2017 (art. 4 and 5). It is a modern territorial marketing tool aimed at the economic growth of the territory through a series of tax and financial benefits and administrative simplification.

The Zes is addressed to the business specializations of the consortium areas of Olbia, Monti, Buddusò - Alà dei Sardi, both with reference to the traditional production sectors of boating, logistics, granite, cork and services in general and to the production chains of the agro-food sector in connection with the Insula-Sardinia Longevity Food program. The municipalities of Tempio, Calangianus, Arzachena and Loiri Porto San Paolo have also shown a strong interest in being involved in the project.

 

Learn more:

Strategic Programming Plan