The bill of reform of the Procurement Code it will be discussed in the Senate Hall in the week from Tuesday 15th to Friday 18th December, after the examination of the Rai reform. This is what was established by the Conference of group leaders of Palazzo Madama.
The provision, returned to the Senate after the significant changes made to the Chamber, and is currently being examined by the Public Works commission where there is no shortage of controversy over some changes made by Montecitorio, first of all the intention to introduce criteria certain procurement rules requiring the use of local manpower or personnel previously employed in the same procurement.
The senator in particular is very critical Peter Ichino (PD), who in the context of the Report to the 11th Standing Commission, Labor and Social Policy, underlined the fact that the aforementioned provision is irreconcilably inconsistent "with the European principle of free movement of persons and of workers in particular", claiming the need to abolish a constraint that would prevent many companies from carrying out their work regularly, as well as from hiring qualified personnel, de facto blocking the market.
The senator also questioned the rule relating to the continuity of employment levels in compliance with the principles of cost-effectiveness of the contract. According to Ichino, the law frustrates the freedom of competition by requiring "all companies to carry out a given activity with a given number of employees, with the substantial consequence of preventing greater per capita productivity from being pursued through the application of new technologies and /or new forms of work organization.”
Ichino also recalled the sentence of the Court of Justice of 10 December 1991 which reaffirms the prohibition of national regulations such as to induce companies not to use "modern technology, with a consequent increase in the costs of operations and delays in their execution".
