"Mobility Manager" and obligations of the affected private sector companies

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

Specifically, to promote traffic decongestion in urban areas by reducing individual private means of transport, private sector companies and Public Administrations with single local units employing 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 home-to-work travel plan for their employees, aimed at limiting the use of individual private transport.

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

More specifically, the Mobility Manager promotes, also by collaborating in the adoption of the sustainable mobility plan, the implementation of measures for organizing and managing people's mobility demand, in order to enable the structural and permanent reduction of the environmental impact resulting from vehicular traffic in urban and metropolitan areas, through the implementation of sustainable mobility initiatives.

The implementing procedures for the provisions of the Relaunch Decree should have been defined by one or more non-regulatory decrees from the Ministry of Environment and Protection of Land and Sea, in agreement with the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport.

It should be noted that, effective March 1, 2021, the Ministry of Environment and Protection of Land and Sea has been replaced by the new Ministry for Ecological Transition, established under the current Draghi Government.

Therefore, in implementation of the above, the newly established Ministry for Ecological Transition, with Ministerial Decree No. 179 of May 12, 2021, has issued the implementing procedures for the regulations concerning the new role of Mobility Manager, published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale on June 26, 2021.

We had already announced the role of the Mobility Manager in the News of June 04, 2021, concerning the Sostegni-bis Decree, regarding the financial allocation provided by the Government.

The aforementioned Ministerial Decree aims to enable the permanent reduction of the environmental impact resulting from private vehicular traffic in urban and metropolitan areas, by promoting the implementation of measures for organizing and managing people's mobility demand, which allow for a reduction in the use of individual private motor vehicles for systematic home-work-home commutes, thereby favoring vehicular traffic decongestion.

To this end, two professional roles are identified:

• The Corporate Mobility Manager, who must be a professional specialized in managing mobility demand and promoting sustainable mobility within the context of employees' home-to-work and work-to-home commutes;

• The Area Mobility Manager, who must be a professional specialized in supporting the territorially competent Municipality, where they are appointed, in defining and implementing sustainable mobility policies, as well as in coordinating between Corporate Mobility Managers.

Consequently, a PSCL – Home-to-Work Travel Plan – must be prepared, which is essentially a planning tool for the systematic home-to-work commutes of employees within a single local operational unit. This plan is mandatory and must be adopted by December 31 of each year for companies with local operational units employing more than 100 employees that are located:

• In a regional capital;

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