“Mobility Manager” and compliance requirements for relevant private-sector companies
- September 6, 2021
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Ministerial Decree No. 179 of May 12, 2021, implementing the provisions of the Relaunch Decree No. 34/2020, as amended by its conversion law No. 77 of July 17, 2020, introduced various measures to support employment and the economy, including measures to promote sustainable mobility.
Specifically, in order to help alleviate traffic congestion in urban areas by reducing the number of private vehicles, private-sector companies as well as public administrations, with individual local units having more than 100 employees (> one hundred) located in a regional capital, a metropolitan city, a provincial capital, or a municipality with a population exceeding 50,000 inhabitants, are required to adopt, by December 31 of each year, a commuting plan for their employees aimed at limiting the use of private vehicles.
To this end, they appoint a “Mobility Manager,” who is responsible for providing ongoing professional support for decision-making, planning, programming, management, and promotion of optimal sustainable mobility solutions.
More specifically, the Mobility Manager promotes—including by contributing to the adoption of the sustainable mobility plan—the implementation of measures to organize and manage public mobility demand, with the aim of achieving a structural and permanent reduction in the environmental impact caused by vehicular traffic in urban and metropolitan areas through the implementation of sustainable mobility measures.
The implementing provisions for the measures set forth in the Relaunch Decree were to be established by one or more non-regulatory decrees issued by the Ministry of the Environment and Protection of Land and Sea, in consultation with the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport.
Please note that, effective March 1, 2021, the Ministry of the Environment and Protection of Land and Sea was replaced by the new Ministry of Ecological Transition, established under the current Draghi administration.
In accordance with the above, the newly established Ministry of Ecological Transition issued, by Ministerial Decree No. 179 of May 12, 2021, the implementing regulations for the new role of Mobility Manager, which were published in Gazzetta on June 26, 2021.
As we had already mentioned in News June 4 News 2021, News regarding the Sostegni-bis Decree, the role of the Mobility Manager is part of the government’s planned budget allocation.
The aforementioned Ministerial Decree aims to achieve a permanent reduction in the environmental impact caused by private vehicle traffic in urban and metropolitan areas by promoting measures to organize and manage the demand for personal mobility. These measures are designed to reduce the use of private motor vehicles for regular home-to-work-to-home commutes, thereby helping to alleviate traffic congestion.
To this end, two professional roles have been identified:
The company’s Mobility Manager, who must be a specialist in managing mobility demand and promoting sustainable mobility in the context of employees’ home-to-work-to-home commutes;
The Area Mobility Manager, who must be a specialist in assisting the local municipality—where they are appointed—in defining and implementing sustainable mobility policies, as well as in coordinating with corporate Mobility Managers.
Consequently, a PSCL (Commute Plan) must be prepared; this is simply a tool for planning the regular commutes of employees at a single local work unit. This plan is mandatory and must be adopted by December 31 of each year for companies with local work units employing more than 100 people that are located:
In a regional capital;
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