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97/744/EC: Commission Decision of 21 October 1997 pursuant to Article 90 (3) of the EC Treaty on the provisions of Italian ports legislation relating to employment (Only the Italian text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance)

97/744/EC: Commission Decision of 21 October 1997 pursuant to Article 90 (3) of the EC Treaty on the provisions of Italian ports legislation relating to employment (Only the Italian text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance)

Decision Β· 3 articles

Data as of 2026-07-04 Β· Compiled from an official source version. Later amendments or repeals may not be reflected; the official text prevails. Β· Read the official text β†—

Article 1

The following provisions of Italian Law No 84/94, as last amended by Law No 647/96 (hereinafter 'Law No 84/94`), are incompatible with Article 90 (1) in conjunction with Article 86: (a) the provision stating that the Port Authorities are to promote the setting-up of a voluntary consortium open to all undertakings licensed to operate in the ports for the sole purpose of dealing more efficiently with unforeseeable fluctuations in the demand for labour and, to that end, are to license one or more members of the consortium, insofar as they have the appropriate workforce and own resources with the specific vocational skills to carry out port operations, as well as the surplus workforce resulting from rationalisation and restructuring under Law No 84/94, to provide other consortium members with manpower services (Article 17 (1) (a)); (b) the provision stating that, until the consortium or agency is set up to provide temporary labour in each Italian port, the undertakings provided for in Article 21 (b) of Law No 84/94, namely the former port companies are to have the monopoly for the supply of temporary labour to other port undertakings (Article 17 (2)); (c) the provision giving the monopoly to the former port companies for the supply of subcontracted services, including those with a high labour content, to other port undertakings (Article 17 (3)).

Article 2

Italy must bring to an end the infringements referred to in Article 1 and inform the Commission of the measures it has taken to that end within two months of the notification of this Decision.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic. Done at Brussels, 21 October 1997. For the Commission Karel VAN MIERT Member of the Commission (1) [1991] ECR I-5889. (2) Judgment cited above, at paragraph 20. (3) [1994] ECR I-5077, paragraph 17. (4) [1994] ECR I-1783, 1812. (5) See also the recent Judgment of 17 July 1997 in Case C-242/95 GT-Link AS v. De Danske Statsbaner, paragraphs 33 et seq. Not yet published. (6) [1991] ECR I-5941. (7) Paragraphs 25 and 26. (8) Paragraphs 23 and 24. (9) Paragraphs 16 and 17. (10) Paragraph 27.

Source: EUR-Lex (Publications Office of the EU), Β© European Union, reuse permitted under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.

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