“Mobility Manager” and obligations of private sector companies concerned

Ministerial Decree No. 179 of May 12, 2021, implementing the provisions of the Relaunch Decree No. 34/2020 coordinated with its conversion law No. 77 of July 17, 2020, has provided for various measures to support employment and the economy, including measures to encourage sustainable mobility.

Specifically, in order to promote traffic decongestion in urban areas by reducing individual private means of transport, private sector companies as well as the Public Administration, with individual local units with more than 100 employees (> one hundred) located in a regional capital, in a metropolitan city, in a provincial capital or in a municipality with a population of more than 50 thousand inhabitants, are required to adopt, by December 31 of each year, a home-work travel plan for their employees aimed at limiting the use of individual private means of transport.

To this end, they appoint a "Mobility Manager" – responsible for mobility, who must perform continuous professional support functions to the activities of decision-making, planning, programming, management and promotion of optimal sustainable mobility solutions.

More in depth, the Mobility Manager promotes, also collaborating in the adoption of the sustainable mobility plan, the implementation of interventions for the organization and management of the demand for mobility of people, in order to allow the structural and permanent reduction of the environmental impact deriving from vehicular traffic in urban and metropolitan areas, through the implementation of sustainable mobility interventions.

The implementing procedures of the provisions referred to in the Relaunch Decree should have been defined with one or more decrees, of a non-regulatory nature, of the Ministry of the Environment and Protection of the Territory and the Sea, in agreement with the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport.

We recall that, with effect from March 1, 2021, the Ministry of the Environment and Protection of the Territory and the Sea was replaced by the new Ministry of Ecological Transition, established under the current Draghi Government.

In implementation of the above, therefore, the newly established Ministry "of ecological transition", with Ministerial Decree No. 179 of May 12, 2021, issued the implementing procedures of the rules relating to the new figure of the Mobility Manager, published in Gazzetta Ufficiale on June 26, 2021.

We had already announced the figure of the Mobility Manager in the News of June 4, 2021, relating to the Sostegni-bis Decree, regarding the financial allocation provided by the Government.

The aforementioned Ministerial Decree aims to allow the permanent reduction of the environmental impact deriving from private vehicular traffic in urban and metropolitan areas, promoting the implementation of organizational and management interventions for the demand of people's mobility, which allow a reduction in the use of private individual motor vehicles in systematic home-work-home journeys, favoring the decongestion of vehicular traffic.

Two professional figures are identified for this purpose:

• The company Mobility Manager, who must be a figure specialized in the governance of mobility demand and in the promotion of sustainable mobility in the context of home-work-home journeys of employed personnel;

• The area Mobility Manager, who must be a figure specialized in supporting the territorially competent Municipality, where he/she is appointed, in the definition and implementation of sustainable mobility policies, as well as in carrying out coordination between company Mobility Managers.

Consequently, a PSCL – Home-Work Travel Plan must be prepared, which is nothing more than a planning tool for the systematic home-work travel of employees of 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 with more than 100 employees that are located:

• In a regional capital;

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