Role
The Interministerial Committee for Economic Planning (the Committee) is a collective governmental body headed by the President of the Council of Ministers and composed of the so-called economic ministers (for more details, see Composition of the Committee). The role of Secretary of the Committee is performed by the Undersecretary of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers appointed by the President of the Council of Ministers.
Set up in 1967, the Committee is a political decision-making body in the economic and financial spheres with a coordination function in the planning of the economic policy to be followed at national, Community and international level. It examines the general socio-economic situation with a view to the adoption of cyclical measures; identifies the guidelines and actions needed to achieve the objectives of economic policy; allocates financial resources to development programmes and projects; and approves the country’s principal public investment plans.
The Committee holds meetings at periodic intervals, ordinarily preceded by preparatory meetings (known as "pre CIPE"). The resolutions concerning the decisions taken by the Committee are sent to the State Audit Office to be registered and subsequently published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale.
The main matters subject to the Committee’s examination concern:
- the Public Finance Decision, the Forecasting and Planning Report and the National Statistical Programme;
- the Strategic Infrastructure Programme of the so-called Objective Law (Law 443/2001), for which the Committee approves the individual projects and allocates the financial resources;
- the investment plans and conventions of the main public concessionaires, i.e. the Italian Railway Network (RFI), the National Road Agency (ANAS), the National Civil Aviation Authority (ENAC), and the Italian Company for Air Navigation Services (ENAV), and leading private concessionaires for motorways, airports, railways, water and ports;
- changes in the charges, subject to the opinion of the Consulting Unit for the implementation and regulation of public utility services, of the above-mentioned concessionaires and public-private partnerships examined by the PPP Task Force;
- the implementation of the National Strategic Framework 2007-2013;
- the distribution of the financial resources of the Underutilized Areas Fund (FAS) and of the Funds to which it supplies resources that operate in the following fields: labour mobility, social policies, support for firms, research, technological innovation, the environment, security, and education;
- the National Research Programme, the National Plan for the Reduction of the Emissions of the Gases responsible for the Greenhouse Effect, the School Buildings Safety Programme, the Road Safety Programme, the Three-year Public Works Programmes of the individual Government Departments, the Housing Planlink to external site;
- the instruments for the support of firms (Industrial Innovation Projects, Integrated Financial Support Packages, Development Contracts, Planning Contracts and Agribusiness Contracts);
- the distribution of the financial resources of the National Health Fund;
- the activation of the Public Investment Monitoring (MIP) system and the complete implementation of the Individual Project Code (CUP).
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