Professions not organized in orders or colleges will be regulated by law. The Productive Activities commission of the Chamber has in fact developed a single text to give a regulatory framework to those economic activities, including organized ones, which provide services or works to third parties, habitually and mainly exercised through intellectual work, which are not included in the activities reserved by law to subjects registered in registers or lists.
The text excludes craft, commercial and public activities and trades governed by specific regulations. The aim of the bill is to guarantee the freedom to set up professional associations of a private nature, founded on a voluntary basis, without any constraint of exclusive representation, "in order to enhance skills, spread compliance with ethical rules and supervise the behavior of the members , favoring the choice and protection of users in compliance with the rules on competition".
And a register of the various professional associations will be set up in the Ministry of Economic Development, which will in any case have to submit to precise requirements: adoption of a state that ensures the precise identification of the professional activities to which the association refers; democracy for the functioning of deliberative bodies; transparency of the organizational structures; non-profit; obligation of members to proceed with constant professional updating; drafting of a list of members, updated annually; adequate publicity of the statute, of the list of members, of the resolutions relating to the elections and identification of the holders of corporate offices, of the code of ethics, as well as indication of the fees paid directly to the association for the statutory purposes; adoption of a code of ethics which provides for graduated sanctions in relation to any violations.
