Giuridico e Amministrativo

🚀 An aircraft, a CRJ900 operated by Endeavor Air from Delta Airlines, flipped on the runway at Toronto Airport during landing, impacting 76 passengers and 4 crew members who were safely evacuated. The incident resulted in 18 injured individuals taken to nearby hospitals. Authorities are investigating potential causes, including bad weather and ice. Toronto Airport staff advise passengers to check flight statuses before traveling.

🛤 Restrictions on cruise ships in Nice, set to start in the summer, ban ships with at least 900 passengers from docking at the ports of Nice and Villefranche-sur-Mer. CLIA is urging reconsideration of these restrictions, aimed at addressing overtourism and pollution. General Manager of CLIA Europe, Samuel Maubanc, advocates for a holistic approach to tourism management. Nice's Mayor, Christian Estrosi, stands firm against polluting cruises that contribute low spending and waste.

🍫 Domori won the "Premio Tavoletta d’Oro" in the "Monorigine" category at the 23rd edition held on February 15, 2025, in Maglie, Lecce during the "I Cioccolati del Mediterraneo" event. The award-winning product was the Criollo Chuao 70% bar, reflecting Domori's commitment to quality chocolate, particularly the Criollo variety, cultivated in Venezuela and Ecuador. The Tavoletta d’Oro is Italy's leading chocolate quality award, spanning 16 categories.

🏆 Smartbox launched new packages for couples and families for Carnival, offering over 14,000 experiences, including city and rural stays, dinners, wellness, and sporty activities. The 'Magiche emozioni per due' targets couples, while '2 giorni in famiglia' caters to 2 adults and 1-2 children with a night's stay and breakfast in 3 or 4-star agritourisms and hotels, focusing on Italian cities and European destinations like Granada and Nantes.

🍷 The European wine sector, producing over 160 million hectoliters annually and covering 45% of global vineyard area, confronts regulatory challenges. Italy, with 49.7 million hectoliters in 2024 and a trade surplus exceeding €7 billion, advocates for unified strategies and efficient use of EU funds at the Stati Generali del Vino in Rome. Albiera Antinori of Federvini emphasizes the need for standardized sustainability norms and scientific decision-making to maintain competitiveness and heritage.

🚠 On February 10, at the BIT convention titled "Tourist Buses and Limited Traffic Zones: A Possible Coexistence (?)", a report revealed the increasing complexity and costliness of regulations for tourist buses in both large and small cities. These restrictions have hindered the development of collective road tourism, especially in cities like Rome, Florence, and Venice, where bus tourists paying triple compared to other transport modes due to a uniform accommodation tax. Federturismo Confindustria President, Marina Lalli, emphasized the need for a new approach to promote and regulate bus access to urban centers. A decree from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport to standardize and cap ZTL (Limited Traffic Zone) tariffs and a single portal for ZTL rules and rates across Italian cities were suggested as solutions.

✈️ Ryanair, aiming to reduce airport management costs, will require passengers to use digital boarding passes from May, disallowing physical check-in desk printing, previously available for a 23-euro fee. Hand luggage exceeding 40x20x25 cm will incur up to a 70-euro fine. Missing a flight results in a 120-euro penalty, avoidable by arriving at least 40 minutes before departure. Priority Boarding remains available for an additional carry-on or paid luggage check-in.

🗻 At Catania airport, flight operations partially resumed after Etna's eruption disruptions. The crisis unit closed airspace sector B11 until 15:00, reopening previously closed airspaces. Passengers must verify flight status with airlines before heading to the airport. Within the last 24 hours, 32 flights were diverted and airport sector C1 reopened on Sunday, February 16. Airlines including Lufthansa and easyJet cancelled various national and international flights.

🚌 FS Italiane Group has been working on the Riyadh metro project since 2018, in partnership with Ansaldo STS and Alstom within the Flow Consortium. The Group secured operation and maintenance services for metro lines 3, 4, 5, and 6 for a 12-year period. This is part of Saudi Arabia's wider shift towards sustainable mobility, including infrastructure enhancement and public transport services. With this goal, FS Italiane established Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane Saudi Arabia for land transport in Riyadh in 2019 to manage the project and identify further development opportunities.

📈 Italian agri-food districts' exports grew by 7.7% to over €21 billion in the first nine months of 2024. The wine sector neared €5 billion (+4.4%), with mixed results across regions: Vini del Veronese (+9.6%), Vini dei colli fiorentini e senesi (+11%), Prosecco di Conegliano-Valdobbiadene (+8%), while Vini di Langhe, Roero e Monferrato declined (-1.6%). Pasta and sweets export reached €3.6 billion (+7.6%), with Dolci di Alba e Cuneo at nearly €1.5 billion (+18.6%). Agricultural exports surpassed €2.9 billion (+5.4%), led by Alto Adige apples (+20%). Preserved food exports increased by €112 million (+5%), and meat and charcuterie advanced by €59 million (+3.1%). Dairy saw a €95 million rise (+5.2%), and coffee exports grew by 9.5%. Olive oil exports surged by €522 million (+52.4%), while rice remained stable (-0.3%). The fishery sector from Polesine and Veneziano rose by 11.6%. Germany remains the top market (+6.9%), with increases in emerging economies by 6.8% and advanced economies by 9.8%. Notable growth in