Overview
- The Sezione centrale deposited deliberation n. 19/2025/PREV on November 27 detailing why it refused the visto and registration of CIPESS Delibera 41 on October 29.
- Judges cited a breach of the EU Habitats Directive, finding the IROPI file incoherent, incomplete and lacking a separate technical assessment and validation by MIT and MASE.
- The Court found violations of Article 72 of Directive 2014/24/EU, judging the reactivated 2006 contracts to have been substantially altered, including a shift to full public financing that would have required a new tender.
- It also flagged the absence of the transport regulator ART’s opinion on the tariff plan underpinning the project’s economic and financial model.
- The government, Palazzo Chigi and Stretto di Messina say technicians and jurists are working on clarifications for the Court, leaving the project administratively stalled.