(Finance) – The National Council of Accountants approved today, unanimously of those present (the vice president Michele de Tavonatti and the councilor Gabriella Viggiano were absent), the new professional organization of the category. The text will be submitted to the attention of political forces in the next few days. It is – explains the note – of a reform that significantly intervenes on numerous aspects of the profession. Changes have been made to the object of the profession, to the rules on incompatibilities, on the exercise of the profession in an associated form, on the regulation of internships, on the regulation of territorial and national disciplinary councils. News also on the subject of arrears and consequent suspension or cancellation from the register, on the regulation of compensation, on professional insurance, on the electoral system and on specializations.
“With the approval of this text – comments the president of the national council of the category Elbano de Nuccio – we have written a fundamental page for the future of the profession. Now our commitment will be maximum to illustrate the reform to all political forces, so that it reaches Parliament quickly”. “This is a broad and organic reform – he adds -. In rewriting our identity card, the National Council addressed crucial issues for the profession and its future evolution closely related to a regulatory and socio-economic context of the professions, and of the country in general, in sudden and continuous change”.
For the National Council elections a mixed electoral system was choseno (50% to the councilors of the territorial Orders and 50% to the members). Having confirmed the quota reserved for the less represented gender on the electoral lists (two fifths), there is the introduction of a quota reserved for under 45s. A choice “inspired by the desire to involve all colleagues registered in the register and by the need these are not only adequately represented, but also protagonists both in the choice of territorial and national representatives”, he underlines. “The basic objective – he states – is to increase the democracy of the electoral system, with a consequent broadening of the electoral base”.
For number one in the category “the mixed system allows the wishes of the members to be taken into account and at the same time not to renounce the recognition of the important role played by the Councils of the Orders, facilitating, through the attribution of the vote to the Councillors, a further extension of the active electorate. Furthermore, if on the one hand the new voting system implicitly determines a revision of the electoral weight expressed by the Councils of the Orders, on the other hand it allows the larger Orders to continue to have a greater weight than the smaller Orders, because their members will have a greater impact – being more numerous – in the expression of the vote and consequently in the election of the National Council. The transition from the current system to the mixed system leaves the electoral weight of each Order unchanged. In the mixed system, in fact, the greater regressivity (of the larger Orders compared to the smaller ones), due to the change in the vote of the Councilors of the Orders, is compensated by the recovery of the weight of the members. In the pre-reform system, larger Orders are given less weight than the number of members by virtue of an equalization principle. With the new mixed electoral system the principle of equalization is respected, while the entire system is much more democratic because more weight is given to the members”.
To take into account the principle of secrecy and freedom of participation in the vote, the election of the National Council is expected to take place with secret voting through the use of a specific IT platform. To take into account the role of the larger Orders and the fact that the vote is attributed to individual councilors, the composition of the Orders’ councils has been reformulated by providing for the following classes: 15 members, if the members exceed the number of 1500 but not that of 2000; 17 members, if the members exceed 2000 but not 3000; 19 members, if the members exceed 3000 but not 4500; 21 members, if members exceed 4500.