CPA Bulletin

36 CPA Bulletin > November 2022 www.cpa.uk.net ESTA: 2 Companies in Italy are complaining that illogical and excess bureaucracy is seriously hindering the heavy lifting and transport sector, pushing up costs and causing projects to be delayed unnecessarily. ESTA’s Italian member association ANNA and the heavy transport and lifting company Fagioli have both complained to the Italian authorities and ESTA has written in their support. Among the issues causing concern is an Italian regulation that only the owner of a mobile crane can apply for a permit. This causes difficulties for cranes that are leased - as the legal owner is not the user who needs the permit, but the finance company responsible for the lease agreement. In its letter, ESTA said that “it sees no valid grounds for this restriction... no other EU country requires this.” Companies have also objected to the “excessively large” number of permit issuing organisations in Italy, leading to confusion, delays and unequal treatment of permit applicants. Of further concern are the repeated technical reviews of bridges needed for the application of permits over a certain gross vehicle weight. ESTA said: “We are not contesting the necessity of this rule, however we are contesting the repeated calculation of the same bridges being crossed by the same vehicle configurations simply because there is a new transport application.” Frustration in Italy at illogical and inefficient regulations Liebherr has told ESTA that it is starting a new crane operator training initiative in Italy with the aimof aligning the project with ESTA’s European Crane Operators Licence. The move has the support of Italian association ANNA and heavy transport and lifting company Fagioli, and is further evidence that ECOL is slowly but surely putting down roots across Europe. Liebherr’s Italian training initiative