ROMA – Greater meritocracy in the appointment of hospital chiefs. More transparent electricity bills. Better public transport, even at the cost of resorting to private companies.
In Recovery Plan, a plan of extraordinary interventions funded by Europe, the Draghi government promises reforms that can improve people’s daily lives. Reforms that will have full competition between companies as their guiding light.
These reforms will be specified later, in the annual law on competition that the premier undertakes to present by July 2021. The approval of this law in Parliament would represent a turning point, given that Italy launched it only once (in 2017). Yet a 2009 law imposes the green light every 12 months, to cut laces and ties, to free up energy and investments.
Draghi explains, again in the Recovery Plan, that he has carefully read the suggestions he receives by the Italian competition supervisor, Roberto Rustichelli. For the moment, however, the ideas of government reform are limited, circumscribed.
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Health. Appointments of primaries, the annual competition law will change the rules of the game. The current ones – writes the government in the Recovery Plan – “leave excessive discretion to the directors of the local health authorities in the final choice of primary care providers. For many other profiles the legislation assigns excessively broad discretionary powers in the appointment of local health authorities and in the management of the services to be offered. to the public”.
Atmosphere. The word waste-to-energy does not appear in the Recovery Plan. Of course, the government wants to equip the country with waste management facilities and will also call in private individuals in this game. Meanwhile, the columns for charging electric cars will have to multiply and more suppliers will come into play.
Bills. Families and small businesses must be ferried into the new era of the free energy market, with offers tailored to each customer. Draghi calls for more transparent bills, so that consumers can trust and leave the safe islands of the protected market without regret. By 2023 – says the government – the energy market will have to be liberalized.
Bus. Municipalities, of course, will be free to organize public transport with their own companies. But in the case of new routes and additional services they will have to justify the public solution in advance and with precise arguments. Opening this sector to the contribution of private suppliers can improve the quality of the service.
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Sentinel. Draghi wants to increase the powers of all the authorities: the Antitrust for competition, the AgCom for communications and TV. And again: Transport, Energy, Consob for the stock markets. These “sentinels” will have more incisive powers, greater resources and guarantees full of independence.
Highways. Goodbye to automatic renewals in section assignments. When the concessions expire, the Ministry of Transport will launch tenders to find each company most deserving to manage a piece of the highway. More precise checks are coming up on the maintenance works that the dealers have committed to carry out.
Internet. In large cities, crowded with potential customers, Internet companies are rolling out the fiber optic network by working day and night. In the gray and white areas of the country, less populated, the installation goes slowly with serious damage to students, families and businesses. Through the Law on Competition, the government will now try two antidotes: first, to favor the laying of the network in all areas of the country that are not very profitable; and – second – helping businesses and families to subscribe, through concessions and bonuses.
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