“Mobility Manager” and Compliance Requirements for Private-Sector Companies Involved
- 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 coordinated with its conversion law No. 77 of July 17, 2020, established 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—are required to adopt, by December 31 of each year, a commuter 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 collaborating on the adoption of the sustainable mobility plan—the implementation of measures to organize and manage people’s mobility needs, 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 have been 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 Transportation.
Please note that, effective 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 administration.
In accordance with the above, the newly established Ministry of “Ecological Transition,” by Ministerial Decree No. 179 of May 12, 2021, issued the implementing regulations for the new role of Mobility Manager, which were published in the Official Gazzetta on June 26, 2021.
We had already mentioned the role of the Mobility Manager in our “ News ” newsletter dated June 4, 2021, regarding the Sostegni-bis Decree, in connection with the funding allocated by the government.
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, thereby reducing the use of private motor vehicles for regular home-to-work-to-home trips and 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 for employees’ home-to-work-to-home commutes;
The Area Mobility Manager, who must be a specialist in assisting the relevant local municipality—by which they are appointed—in defining and implementing sustainable mobility policies, as well as in coordinating with corporate Mobility Managers.
Consequently, a PSCL—a 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 employees that are located:
In a regional capital;
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