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unions was an important step in an attempt to restore the industry’s natural
role as driver of economic and social growth. The first concrete result of this
new philosophy of dialog among the most sensitive social partners was the
signing of the general part of the national collective agreement for the air
transport industry, with which, for the first time in Italy, the parties agreed
to create a shared framework of rules and safeguards aimed at protecting
the entire domestic air transport chain, with the mutual conviction that the
interdependence of its sectors is an essential and defining characteristic.

The agreement on the specific part of ATM Services marked the conclusion
of the process for defining all of the direct and indirect activities involved
in flight assistance, with the participation of the companies affiliated with
ASSOCONTROL, whose respective business areas were appropriately
allocated in their respective sections.

The organization into three specific sections – strategic systems, low-traffic
systems, and related services – is a completely new structural aspect of
the specific partof ATM Services, within which, without prejudice to the
rules of the employment relationship, traditional subjects of labor union
discussions regarding classification of personnel, distribution of working
hours, and salary are covered in complete detail.

The section devoted to low-traffic systems is especially important.
Derived from the National Plan for Airports, it is the contractual means
for implementing ENAV’s plan for rationalization of low-traffic airports,
based on logics of profitability and self-payment. Equally important and
innovative is the section dedicated to the business area, of critical support
to ENAV’s core business, which manages all systems involved in the design,
development, operation, and maintenance of technology infrastructures
and platforms used for ATM services, which are supplied by ENAV Group
companies.

In particular, the agreement’s new low-traffic airport structure generates a
dual benefit by reducing terminal charges and creating new jobs at lower
cost. For these systems, the agreement will reduce overall operating costs
by about 40%, which will be used for a structural containment of terminal
charges to the advantage of airline companies without having to resort to
the use of charge stabilization provisions, as occurred in the last two years.
At the same time, the new structure will offer new job prospects for newly-
hired personnel and professional growth for current employees at these
systems, who will be requalified by training courses for strategic systems
that demand higher qualifications and offer better salaries.

This approach will safeguard employment along ENAV Group’s entire
perimeter and prevent the marginalization of less productive operations.

Regardless of any different dates of signing by the parties, the national
collective labor agreement for the air transport industry will have a three-
year term starting on 1 January 2014 and expiring on 31 December 2016,
superimposed on the effective dates of the ENAV agreement (2012-2014)
and the Techno Sky and SICTA agreements (both effective 2013-2015).