The diffusion of “technological services for mobility it requires reconsidering the adequacy of legal institutions and categories on which the regulation of matter has so far been based". To say it is theTransport Authority, in a report sent to the Government and Parliament, on the Uber-Pop issue.
La judgment of the Court of Milan of last May 26 had ordered the blocking of the use of the San Francisco app throughout Italy, giving the company 15 days (until June 10) to suspend its activity, and had marked a victory for taxi drivers in the war to Uber-Pop drivers, without authorization titles and considered by the Tar as operating in a regime of effective competitive advantage.
A short-lived victory, however, because the message from the Transport Authority (approved on 21 May, even before the sentence of the Court of Milan) radically changes the situation, with the exhortation to the Government and Parliament to undertake a legislative intervention that finally takes into account the activity of public transport services that are implemented thanks to technological systems, such as Uber.
The position taken by the Authority, which has decided to recognize the new forms of mobility, faces the limits of a law, the one that regulates the "transport of people by non-scheduled public bus services", which dates back to an era that is too different from the ours (the law dates back to 1992), when the Internet and apps did not yet exist, and it puts new pressure on the Italian political class which, up to now, has not yet tackled the issue head-on.
In any case, the report of the Transport Authority, which reconstructs the taxi tariff complex in large cities, it also calls for the introduction of specific obligations for private individuals who offer paid rides through the App, effectively including Uber in the regulated transport system. Now it is the turn of the Government and Parliament who will have to choose between applying a law which, perhaps, is no longer in step with the times, or enact a new one.
