Rome, 15 January 2026 - A more structured, proportionate, and coordinated payment system for access to urban LTZs for buses and goods transport vehicles through the rapid approval and issuance of the MIT decree on price ceilings for access to urban centres. This, in brief, is the request of Confindustria, Confcommercio, Confartigianato and Confesercenti contained in a joint letter recently sent to the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini.

Today there are about 50 municipalities," reads the letter, "that have set up tariffed LTZs and defined more or less onerous levy mechanisms for buses and goods transport vehicles, declined according to different application schemes and subject to frequent changes, implemented most often without prior notice and hardly reconcilable with the needs of planning transport services and organising tourist flows. The municipalities involved," the four organisations emphasise, "are of various sizes and economic importance, in many cases with a strong tourist appeal, and the tariff system does not even spare scheduled public transport. The impact on the entire sector exceeds 100 million euros per year, with an incidence on the budgets of the companies of close to 5% of the total company costs. This is not only an economic burden but also an administrative one, affecting the organisation and planning of the transport companies' own activities, and one that has no parallel in other European countries.

This, according to the organisations, is a brake on the development of activities. The regulatory instrument to mark a turning point and identify a shared levy system exists and has been waiting for over three years to be implemented. This is why the ministerial decree on maximum tariffs for vehicle access to urban LTZs, envisaged by the 2022 reform of the Highway Code, must be approved and issued quickly. It is essential to arrive at a unified, fair and rational system of charging for access to urban centres, for the transport of persons and goods, capable of reconciling the needs of municipal administrations, citizens, tourists, travellers and businesses.