Sisma 2016, Legnini’s reconstruction and boomerang criticisms
Tensions and diversity of views on the reconstruction after the 2016 earthquake between government commissioner, Legnini, and parliamentarians. Here are all the details.
Diversity of views on the reconstruction after the 2016 earthquake between Commissioner Legnini and parliamentarians. Here is the point of the situation.
What does the budget law provide?
The 2022 Budget Law provides for the refinancing of the private reconstruction fund for houses damaged by the 2016 earthquake. The law allocates over 6 billion euros , the confirmation of the 110% Superbonus for four years and the extension of some related terms to the state of emergency, which is extended to 2022, such as the rules concerning rubble, concessions on utility bills, the Irpef, Imu and Isee exemption for unusable properties. The funds allocated by the Budget Law are added to the complementary Fund to the PNRR for the earthquake areas of 1.78 billion . The latter tries to respond to historical needs, which in some cases have become real emergencies after the pandemic crisis, such as the absence of digital connections, which made smart working and distance learning difficult. The fund is divided into two lines of intervention.
The damage of the 2016 earthquake
The 2016 earthquake swarm caused damage to over 80,000 properties, of which 62% in the Marche region, 16% in Abruzzo, 11% in Umbria and the remaining 11% in Lazio. Abruzzo involved 103,483 inhabitants (7.8 percent of the region) 3 provinces, 23 municipalities, Lazio 72,798 inhabitants (1.2 percent of the region) one province, 15 municipalities, Umbria 57,505 inhabitants (6, 5 percent of the region) 2 provinces, 15 municipalities and the Marche 348,473 (22.6 percent of the region) 4 provinces, 85 municipalities. The honorable Tullio Patassini (Lega Nord) in a question addressed to the Ministry for the South and territorial cohesion asked if "we intend to take initiatives to continue with regard to the interventions envisaged by the complementary fund PNRR, with a distribution of the same on a regional that takes into account the actual impact caused on the territories by the seismic events of 2016 and 2017, in order to support the homogeneous development of the Apennine inland areas ".
14 billion euros for reconstruction
"The State, which has already made 14 billion euros available for the reconstruction of Central Italy, and 1.8 billion with the complementary fund to the PNRR for economic development, is doing its part in full", wrote the extraordinary Commissioner of government for the reconstruction after the 2016 earthquake, Giovanni Legnini, in the presentation of the allocations of 2022 for the reconstruction after the 2016 earthquake. Commissioner Legnini calls all the actors involved to do their part . “Now is the time for all the protagonists of the reconstruction, citizens, technicians, mayors, regional offices, to do theirs with the maximum possible commitment – wrote Legnini critically -. We cannot accept further delays, indecisions or opportunistic behaviors: where we can, we must rebuild ”.
Legnini asks the mayors to prepare time schedules
"At the same time we will initiate action in the most affected municipalities, where reconstruction in some cases is still far behind, prompting the mayors to prepare timely schedules for the presentation of requests from private individuals", added Commissioner Legnini, meeting with journalists and representatives of citizens' associations and committees to take stock of the Budget Law, the PNRR fund for earthquake areas. The Commissioner therefore attributes part of the responsibility for the delays to the first citizens of the small towns.
The results of 2021: 1.7 billion euros allocated
"In the first eleven months of 2021 – reads the summary report – 4,884 requests for grants were approved for the reconstruction of private buildings damaged by the earthquake , with the authorization to open as many construction sites, for an amount of 1.7 billion euros . They are almost double those approved in 2020 (2,657 applications), and represent almost half of those approved from the start of the reconstruction to date (11,830, for a total amount of 3.4 billion euros) ”. The disbursements of funds based on the progress of the works amount, for the period from January to November, "to 762 million euros , more than half of the total disbursements since the start of the reconstruction, equal to 1.47 billion EUR". Furthermore, in 2021, 2,185 construction sites were completed for approximately 5 thousand real estate units. The construction sites that have completed the works are 5,879, with the redelivery of approximately 15 thousand real estate units.
Construction market saturated by the Superbonus
“In these two years we have removed the most evident regulatory and procedural obstacles. Today we are experiencing difficulties linked to the trend of the building market , first saturated by the success of the Superbonus , then stuck by the increase in prices – added Legnini -. We have already decided on a first increase in the reconstruction contribution, but by February we will also have a new price list, more in keeping with current market conditions. In the meantime, planners can use the regional price lists, already adequate, and count on the recognition of the higher costs for the works already started and on the 110% Superbonus which allows them to cover the cost of repairs that would remain on the owners' shoulders ".
Superbonus also to those who have already benefited from reconstruction benefits
However, net of the distortions, the Superbonus 110% proved to be a great incentive for the modernization of the Italian building stock. "The Superbonus is also a fundamental tool for accelerating post-seismic reconstruction in Central Italy and for further improving the seismic safety and energy efficiency of tens of thousands of buildings that have yet to be rebuilt, as it is possible to use it in virtuous competition with the contribution for the post-earthquake reconstruction, provided for by article 5 of the decree-law of 17 October 2016, n. 189, converted, with amendments, by law 15 December 2016, n. 229 ”, wrote Senator Agostino Santillo (M5S) in his question of last June 8th . The senator asks the Government, among other things, to "extend the application of the facilitation referred to in article 119 of the law decree of 19 May 2020, n. 34 converted, with amendments, by law 17 July 2020, n. 77, also to buildings and artifacts of any kind that have already enjoyed tax deductions or benefits or contributions granted on the occasion of earthquakes, floods or other calamitous events ".
An extension to the deadlines in the areas affected by the 2016 earthquake
“The territory of the Marche Region, as we all know, was severely hit by the 2016 earthquake – said Antonio Saccone (FI) in his question on 7 December last -. 140 Municipalities hit and damaged by the earthquake in Central Italy, which are entitled to the aid and reimbursements provided for by the earthquake decree law ”. Delays in reconstruction should be linked to bureaucratic and regulatory confusion. “Government measures should constitute the heart of the reconstruction process and give new impetus to the socio-economic recovery of the territories of Central Italy hit by the earthquake; however, although the Commissioner for reconstruction Giovanni Legnini stated last December 30 that 2021 must be the year of the "definitive take-off of reconstruction", the situation on our territory is still partially blocked – reads again in the question by Saccone in which Legnini's action is criticized -; in fact, there are many regulatory measures in favor of the crater areas that came into force on January 1st of this year. But these measures go hand in hand with the concessions provided for by the Relaunch Decree and it is difficult to disentangle the various deadlines provided ". The Government is asked to evaluate, in the areas hit by the earthquake, an "extension for the use of the concessions already in place, which otherwise could not be used without blame".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/terremoto-2016-la-ricostruzione-e-le-critiche-boomerang-di-legnini/ on Thu, 30 Dec 2021 05:58:16 +0000.