(Finance) – “The government is delegated to adopt, within twenty-four months from the date of entry into force of this law, a legislative decree of reform of the regulations on conflicts of interest for the holders of state and regional government offices and for the presidents and members of the independent guarantee, supervisory and regulatory authorities”. This is what theamendment presented by the rapporteur Paolo Emilio Russo (Fi) to the bill first signed by M5s leader Giuseppe Conte on conflict of interest filed in the Constitutional Affairs commission of the Chamber.
There proposed amendment entirely replaces Article 1 of the Five Star text and deletes all the other 17 articles. The reform that the government is delegated to adopt, the amendment provides, concerns only the holders of state and regional government positions, i.e. the president of the Council of Ministers; the vice presidents of the Council of Ministers, the ministers, the deputy ministers, the undersecretaries of State and the extraordinary commissioners of the Government, the president of the region and the members of the regional council. The Conte law proposal also regulated, however, the conflict of interests of provincial presidents, mayors and municipal councilors.
L’amendment establishes that the reform that the government will have to adopt regulates the incompatibility for holders of state or regional offices with the ownership, possession or availability of shareholdings exceeding 50 percent (in the Conte proposal it was sufficient to exceed 2% to trigger the incompatibility) of the share capital of a company that carries out its activity under a concession issued by the State or the regions, of a company that holds exclusive rights or operates under a monopoly regime.
The incompatibility, foreseen by the M5s text, with participation in companies operating in the radio and television and publishing or internet diffusion sectors or other companies of national interest has been abolished.
The delegation provides that in the legislative decree the government attributes powers of supervision, investigation and possible sanction of violations to the Competition and Market Authority (AGCM) and, with reference to violations attributable to the president and members of the AGCM, to the National Anti-Corruption Authority.