Decree, here’s how Meloni and Fitto will change powers over the Pnrr
The control room of the Pnrr at Palazzo Chigi will change its skin. With the Fitto decree now in draft, a radical change of governance is being carried out. With the conferral of more powers to the government and with the possibility of changing the leaders chosen by Draghi. Here's what the draft calls for
The new government begins to design the administrative machinery of the state in its image and likeness. The draft law on the governance of the Pnrr will arrive on the table of the Council of Ministers next Thursday. Among the important news is the cancellation of armor from the spoils system introduced in 2021 by the former Premier Draghi. The " Technical Secretariat " will be replaced by the " Mission Structure " and the " Central Service to the Mef " will be replaced by the " General Inspectorate " . Beyond the renaming of the structures, what changes is the strengthening of the control and monitoring structure headed by Palazzo Chigi and the Ministry of the Economy.
Here are all the details.
FROM MARIO DRAGHI'S TECHNICAL SECRETARY TO THE MISSION STRUCTURE
Through the meshes of this new structure, which will be the architrave for the work of Prime Minister Meloni and Minister Raffaele Fitto who is in charge of the Plan, the negotiations with the European Commission will pass and the results achieved will be compared with the objectives agreed with Brussels . The recruitment of 50 employees and three general managers is envisaged for the mission structure. Thus the Meloni Government sends the Technical Secretariat to the attic , an instrument introduced by former Prime Minister Mario Draghi and introduces the Mission Structure which will have the task of inheriting its tasks and functions.
THE ACTIVITIES OF THE MISSION STRUCTURE
As envisaged by the draft of the PNRR Implementation Decree , the mission Structure is called upon to carry out numerous activities , including ensuring "support to the political Authority delegated on PNRR for the exercise of the functions of direction and coordination of the strategic action of the Government in relation to the implementation of the Plan", ensuring and carrying out " interlocutions with the European Commission as national contact point for the implementation of the PNRR, as well as for verifying the consistency of the results deriving from the implementation of the Plan and the objectives and targets agreed at European level ” and oversee “the performance of the preliminary investigations relating to the formulation of proposals for updating or amending the PNRR”. Furthermore, in collaboration with the General Inspectorate for the PNRR , the Mission Structure "verifies the consistency of the implementation phase of the PNRR, with respect to the planned objectives, and ensures "the carrying out of the institutional communication and publicity activities of the PNRR".
OUTSIDE THE CENTRAL SERVICE AT THE MEF, INSIDE THE INSPECTORATE FOR THE PNRR
Time has also run out for the Central Service to the Mef, led by Carmine Di Nuzzo, to be replaced by the General Inspectorate. This new entity will be similar to those who currently deal with public finance, public administration personnel or economic affairs. It will be divided into “eight non-general management level offices and, for the exercise of its duties, it can make use of the support of state-owned companies”. The Inspectorate for the Pnrr will have " operational coordination tasks on the implementation, financial management and monitoring of the Pnrr , as well as control and reporting to the European Union", it will also be "responsible for the management of the Next Generation EU-Italy Revolving Fund and related financial flows , as well as the management of the monitoring system on the implementation of the reforms and investments of the PNRR, ensuring the necessary technical support to the central administrations holding interventions envisaged in the PNRR”.
THE INTERNAL REORGANIZATION OF MINISTRY
To this it should be added that all ministries will be able to reorganize their structures dedicated to the PNRR. This means the "green light" for the internal reorganization of top management structures and professionals within the dicasteries . The ministers will be able to decide to entrust tasks and coordination activities to trusted managers and replace the coordinators chosen by the previous government.
GREEN LIGHT TO THE SPOIL SYSTEM
A reorganization that has among its purposes that of placing men and women loyal to the Premier and his party in the nerve centers of the new administrative machine. The first to be asked to take a step to the side, as reported by Repubblica , is Chiara Goretti , "the coordinator of the Secretariat chosen and armored by Draghi". Another seat that could jump is that of Davide Ciferri , who arrived at the Ministry of Transport (now in the hands of Matteo Salvini) through a public competition, with the former minister Enrico Giovannini.
THE TABLE FOR THE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP CLOSES
In the draft Decree Law circulated by Palazzo Chigi , the table for the economic, social and territorial partnership has disappeared . A consultative body, which had no decision-making powers, but in which the social partners could discuss the PNRR. However , local administrators and representatives of the social partners will sit directly in the control room . When topics of interest to them are discussed, the following will sit in the control room: Massimiliano Fedriga (President of the Conference of Regions), Michele de Pascale (Upi President), Antonio Decaro (Anci President) and the Mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri.
HALFING OF THE TERMS OF THE PROCEDURES
However, time is running out, and to speed up the delayed PNRR projects, the decree confirmed the halving of the terms of the procedures which, if PNRR investments are at stake, reduce the deadlines from 30 to 15 days 'injunction to fulfill made with substitutive powers . The latter, which can be activated by the political authority responsible for the project, and no longer by the technical secretariat of Palazzo Chigi, are triggered when a territorial body is responsible for delays such as to put an objective of the PNRR at risk.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/decreto-ecco-come-meloni-e-fitto-cambieranno-i-poteri-sul-pnrr/ on Tue, 14 Feb 2023 13:39:14 +0000.