Doing Business Project
What is it
The World Bank Group carries out the Doing Business (DB) Project since 2003 to provide a quantitative measure of the small and medium-size companies business regulation environment (more information at Link to external websitewww.doingbusiness.org).
For the first time in Europe at a sub-national level, the "Sub-National Doing Business Project in Italy 2012" will concern the competitiveness and the investment attraction capability at a regional level, with a particular focus on the areas of Southern Italy. This project is an idea of the Department for the Planning and Coordination of Economic Policy (DIPE) of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, which has signed, on December 14th 2010, a specific collaboration Agreement with the World Bank Group.
Goals
To select the main obstacles for domestic companies in doing business, in particular in the regions of South Italy, and to propose national and local policy reforms with no major costs for the Government. This project represents a real instrument to support renewal actions and to carry out reforms.
Indicators
| Starting a business | DB records all procedures that are officially required for an entrepreneur to start up and formally operate an industrial or commercial business. |
| Dealing with construction permits | DB records all procedures required for a business in the construction industry to build a standardized warehouse. These procedures include submitting all relevant project-specific documents (for example, building plans and site maps) to the authorities; obtaining all necessary clearances, licenses, permits and certificates; completing all required notifications; and receiving all necessary inspections. Doing Business also records procedures for obtaining connections for electricity, water, sewerage and a fixed land line. |
| Registering property/td> | DB records the full sequence of procedures, as well as time and costs necessary for a business (buyer) to purchase a property from another business (seller) and to transfer the property title to the buyer’s name. |
| Enforcing contracts | DB follows the step-by-step evolution of a commercial sale dispute, measuring time, costs and number of civil procedures from the notice of default to the credit recovery. |
| Trading across borders | DBcompiles procedural requirements for exporting and importing a standardized cargo of goods by ocean transport. Documents associated with every official procedure are counted—from the contractual agreement between the 2 parties to the delivery of goods—along with the time and cost necessary for completion. For exporting goods, procedures range from packing the goods at the warehouse to their departure from the port of exit. For importing goods, procedures range from the vessel’s arrival at the port of entry to the cargo’s delivery at the warehouse. |
Interested areas
12 cities: 8 in the Centre-South and 4 in the North of Italy
7 ports: 5 in the South and 2 in the North of Italy
The working team will collect data through surveys as well as interviews to special categories of stakeholders both private (i.e., entrepreneurs, notaries, lawyers, chartered accountants, engineers, architects, customs brokers, etc.) and public (i.e., offices of Municipalities, Chambers of Commerce, Portual Authorities, Customs Agency, law courts, etc.).
Communication workshops of the project
- > Doing Business Sub-National in Italia - Kick-off Meeting, Roma 22 giugno 2011
- > Seminar "Doing Business Sub-National in Italia", Roma 20 ottobre 2010
- > Workshop "Doing Business in Italy", Roma 7 giugno 2010
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