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THE ITALIAN HIGHWAY CONCESSION SYSTEM

The italian highways network today consists mostly of roads made between the sixties and

seventies. Thanks to the use of concessions in those years Italy had an infrastructure

system largely superior with respect to the other European countries. However the stop in

the realization of new routes established by the Law no. 492 of 16.10.1975, the italian

Highways network has been expanded only through special laws related to some

particular events such as the soccer World Cup.

Until the 2000 works to the Italian highways network have been addressed mainly to

increase quality and safety standards while the other European countries have

implemented significant investments in order to have a more advanced highway network.

Only with the Law no. 443 of 21.12.2001 (Legge Obiettivo) several measures have been

taken in order to reduce the infrastructure gap with respect to the other European

countries. Since the institution of the concession is characterized by the use of resources

generated in auto financing of public transfers, it made possible to make significant

investments. On the other hand other works financed exclusively with public funds have

experienced greater difficulties in financing. In this sense the highways concession system

is a strategic factor for the countrys economy thanks to the high investment capacity.

NATIONAL HIGHWAY NETWORK

The italian highway network is given under concession to companies with different

providers. The first is the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport, the successor to Anas

S.p.A in this role starting from the 1 October 2012. So the Ministry which operates through

the Structure of Supervision over the Highways Concessionaires established by the

Ministerial Decree no. 341 of 1 October 2012, controls most of the network in concession.

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Then there is Anas S.p.A, a public company subject to the supervision of the Ministry of

Infrastructures, which manages some routes directly while for others plays indirectly the

role of grantor by participating in the 50% of the shares in regional companies.

There are also some regional companies that act exclusively as grantor of infrastructures

in the Region to which they refer.

HIGHWAY NETWORK UNDER CONCESSION BY THE MINISTRY OF

INFRASTRUCTURES AND TRANSPORT

The toll motorway concession given by the Ministry of Infrastructure is handled by 24

companies with 25 existing concessions. The entire network covers 5821.5 Km and it's alloperational.

The following table shows the list of concessionaires with their miles of competence.

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HIGHWAY NETWORK CONCESSION TO ANAS SPA

In addition to motorways under concession, the national motorway network is made of

routes managed directly by ANAS S.p.A, amounting to a total of 953.8 km.

MOTORWAY NETWORK ANAS - Regions

Subsidiary companies have been set up jointly by Anas S.p.A and regions with the function

of grantor of new motorways routes, even if none of these routes is operational.

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GRAFICO

OTHER GRANTOR COMPANIES

Finally there are other grantor companies that operate for the construction of regional

highways with the Region as grantor. None of these routes is operational.

GRAFICO

THE CONCESSION

The relationship between the Grantor (formerly ANAS) and the concessionaires, wasregulated, up to 2007, by conventional acts stipulated in accordance with a standard

model prepared between 1997 and 1998 by the Ministry of Public Works, with the

favorable opinion of the State Council.

These agreements and the correlated financial plans define how the investment for the

improvement of the routes in concession has to be made. According to the existing

concession agreements, motorway concessions

have different end dates. The duration of licenses can be found in the conventional actsindicated in the tables below together with the state periodic updating of the financial

plans.