No way for the banks: the shortcut didn't work. The amendment to the simplification decree which should have satisfied the lenders it jumped. This was decided this morning by the meeting of the group leaders of the Constitutional Affairs and Productive Activities commissions of Montecitorio.
The correction was presented to the House yesterday by the rapporteurs. Basically, the goal was to cancel a rule provided for in another decree, the one on liberalizations. With a last-minute wipe, the amendment provided that the cancellation of bank commissions on credit lines would be valid "only if the banks had not complied with the rules on transparency" issued by the Cicr, the interministerial committee for credit and savings.
This morning, however, the change of mind: "The amendment will not be presented officially - explained the rapporteur Stefano Saglia - because it was the risk of admissibility is too strong".
But the game on the banks is far from over, even if the path to follow cannot be linear. By now the liberalization decree has received the ok from the Senate and yesterday it landed in the House, which will have to approve it by March 24 to prevent it from expiring. The abrupt change of course will therefore have to take another route: according to what parliamentary sources reveal, the pro-banking amendment could be inserted at this point in the text of the tax decree.
On this front, however, there is an obstacle: the liberalization decree would enter into force before the fiscal one, therefore, at least for a few weeks, the total cancellation of bank commissions on credit lines would be law. A period of interregnum which, however, credit institutions could also tolerate as the lesser evil: any judgment of inadmissibility is too great a risk.
Meanwhile, however, the pressing of the bankers does not stop. On the contrary, it increases the dose. And he does it again through the mouth of Joseph Mussari, former president of Abi, who last week he resigned along with the top management of the association precisely in protest against the rule on commissions. “The ball now lies with Parliament – Mussari said today in an interview with Radio 24 – and this reassures us, because we think that the parties have understood that there is no juridical foundation in this provision. A modification of it… We absolutely look forward to it”.
