(Finance) – Urgent interventions in the field of civil protection and reconstruction following calamitous events, urgent provisions in the matter of compensation procedures for exceeding the spending ceiling for medical devices, regional laws. Also on the table is the information from the Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy Adolfo Urso on the cost of fuel, the decree on the payback for medical devices and the first appointments of the Meloni era, with government indications for the heads of the tax agencies. These are the topics on the agenda of the Cabinet, finished, after more than an hour, around 8.30 this evening.
Particularly awaited le decisions on the fuel cost front. The Council of Ministers has developed a ad hoc decree law in favor of greater transparency in the fuel market for the benefit of the consumer. The monitoring of prices to distributors will no longer be weekly but daily and the obligation to display the price at the pump has been introduced with penalties that could be imposed by the prefect. On the motorways, the hypothesis is to pay a higher percentage to the distributors, but it must be fixed. On the other hand, according to what has been learned, interventions on excise duties are excluded.
“The forecast, from the data we collected in the first 8 days of the year, is that there should be a stabilization of these fuel prices – the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security, Gilberto Picetto Fratin –. There are a number of situations that need to be monitored, to understand if we are talking about motorways or areas where there is only one petrol station, such as on the islands. For a price above 2 euros, a specific justification is needed. There is a request from the Antitrust for a verification of those cases where there has been a surplus, remembering that the price is free”.
As regards the appointments to tax agenciesthe departure of Marcello Minenna, in his place, is confirmed at Customs Robert Alesse, the head of cabinet of the Minister for Civil Protection Nello Musumeci. Reconfirm yourself Ernesto Maria Ruffini to the Revenue Agency and the director of the State Property Agency, Alessandra Dal Verme.
Settled more funds for civil protection, but also for disabilities and equal opportunities. “The Presidency of the Council, as can be seen from the 2023 Forecast Budget published on the institutional website of the Government, has chosen to increase some allocations for next year in favor of sector policies deemed more strategic, starting with the restoration of part of the funds, An additional 253 million, for civil protection which had been reduced by 1.5 billion by the previous executive – declared the undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council, Alfredo Mantovano -.In fact, this government considers it a priority to invest in the prevention and relief of emergency events related to natural disasters and in particular in the prevention of seismic risk in which 61 million more are invested.Furthermore, given the serious international situation, a part of the additional funds will go to policies in favor of the Ukrainian emergency, starting with the reception of refugees, situations of hardship of people with disabilities (110 million) and space programmes domestic and aerospace (726 million)”.
The Council of Ministers also gave the green light to the legislative decree which extends the deadline for payback on medical devices to 30 April.