MILAN – Without support the “costs” of which you have to load the drivers for the law, starting from licensing and passing through the “meter” and insurance for “professional use”, the note ‘app’ Uber-pop, one of the services provided by the American multinational Uber, would have created an ‘unfair competition’, being able to practice “rates” lower and to grab more customers.
It is for this reason that the Court of Milan decided to inhibit “as a precautionary measure and is urgent” to group companies use throughout Italy of the web application. In recent weeks, in fact, organizations and unions, local and national, taxi drivers and radiotaxi, assisted by a legal team composed of lawyers Marco Giustiniani, Nico Moravia, John Gigliotti and Alessandro Fabbi, they had brought an action to ask the ‘darkening of Uber-pop, which allows anyone to become a taxi driver without a license, and the injunction of the service.
Yesterday the judge of Section for companies, Claudio Marangoni, with an order of 18 pages upheld the appeal by establishing lock ‘app’. And the inhibition of any “service, however named or by any means promoted and disseminated, to organize, promote and spread by individuals without official authorization and / or license a third transport for consideration at the request of transported, so not continuous or periodic, on itineraries and second established schedules from time to time. “
Now Uber, according to the measure, will have 15 days to turn off the ‘app’, otherwise it will take a ‘criminal’ by 20 thousand euro for each additional day of use. “We will appeal – said Zac De Kievit, Legal Director Uber Europe – to prevent hundreds of thousands of Italian citizens are deprived of a secure, reliable and economical to move around in their cities.” And again: “In Italy today continues to operate UberBlack and for the next two weeks UberPop.”
The group, meanwhile, can make claim to the Tribunal against the blockade of the interim service and if you will be greeted the cause will go forward on the merits. “We are truly satisfied with the result, because the Court of Milan has fully understood the situation despite its complexity,” he explained, however, the lawyer Giustiniani, one of the lawyers association of taxi drivers.
Among the reasons that led the judge to have a matter of urgency to stop the Uber-pop, there are, among other things, “the injurious effects in ‘taxi pronounced” due to the expected large number Guest of the event Expo 2015 “. The prompt ‘transport transmitted by the user through the app Uber-pop “, then explains to the judge,” as well as being technical method already used by the cooperatives of taxi drivers appears in fact quite similar to the radio taxi service “, but without costs that taxi drivers are burdened with ‘misuse of customer undue “and” a real competitive advantage. “
Several, however, said the judge, are” forms of car sharing, “which require” that the driver has his own personal journey to be carried out “and share the journey, while the drivers Uber-pop does not have an interest ‘staff to get to the place indicated by the user’ and apply ‘rates ». So the ‘app’ will not generate even “benefits to the community in terms of reducing air pollution and energy consumption.”
For the mayor of Milan Giuliano Pisapia the judge’s decision is “acceptable” and “now Uber continues in his work, but within the law.” And if by Matteo Salvini, leader of the League, “is very good news,” the Codacons is “enormous damage to users, because limits competition and reduces the possibility of choice for citizens.”
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