“Reform is needed complete with the non-scheduled mobility sector (taxi and NCC) which is governed by "a law now 25 years old".
This is the fulcrum of the Antitrust report to Parliament, with which the Guarantor asks for "a lightening of the existing regulation", eliminating "the provisions that limit the activity of NCCs on a territorial basis". Reforms that "would ensure full equality" between taxi drivers and NCC and "facilitate the development of more innovative and beneficial forms of service for consumers (such as Uber black and Mytaxi)".
Based on what has been explained by the Antitrust, the changes should affect the type of services that, through digital platforms, connect non-professional drivers and final demand, just like Uber Pop.
According to the Authority, by protecting competition, a regulation should be implemented which provides a registration of the platforms in a public register and the identification of a series of requirements and obligations for drivers and platforms, including of a fiscal nature.
It is clear, the Guarantor continues, that these measures would lead to an immediate extension of the offer of non-scheduled mobility services to the full advantage of end consumers.
"The possibility of success of such a pro-competitive reform of the sector is however linked to the adoption of suitable measures to limit as much as possible the social impact of market opening".
There should also be some forms of compensation in favor of the taxi drivers financed through the establishment of a Fund containing resources deriving from new operators and from the higher revenues deriving from possible changes to the tax regime".
