Financial Burden For Security Services Cannot Be Borne Solely By Concessionaires Of State-Owned Areas

By some recent rulings ¹, the Regional Administrative Court of Tuscany clarified that the financial burden involved with the provision of the public security service at port customs gates cannot be placed only on concessionaires of state-owned areas, as such costs must be shared among all users of port services.

More specifically, the above-mentioned rulings relate to two claims challenging measures whereby, in 2015, the then-Livorno Port Authority (now Port System Authority of the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea) had ordered two concessionaries to pay the fees due to the company in charge of the security and customs control service at the Port of Livorno.

By the judgments under examination, the Regional Administrative Court of Tuscany upheld the claims brought by the concessionaires and cancelled the Port Authority's payment requests.