I contratti di programma del gestore aeroportuale tra ENAC e ART

Abstract

The legal instrument of the program contracts has been identified by our legal system as the most suitable to provide standards of adequate consistency in the relationship between the tariff system and the obligations imposed on the airport concessionary company for the financing and therefore the infrastructural improvement of the airports. After a short but complete regulatory framework regarding the subject of program contracts and supervision in the field of airport charges, we have moved on to the description of Roles and division of competences between Enac and Art. In fact, ENAC was the only competent authority to approve tariff levels at airports, until in 2014 ART, has been made operational as the independent supervisory authority in the field of airport tariffs for all national airports. It is, however, necessary that the identification of the Supervisory Authority in the ART is also placed in the framework of the regulatory system which has provided for and regulated the exempted Program Contracts.