Green light from the Chamber to the trust placed by the Government on the Budget Law: there were 348 votes in favour, 144 against. Among the main innovations introduced in the final rush of the Budget commission yesterday are highlighted the expansion of the Public Investment Fund including sewage and purification works, environmental remediation and reclamation, urban redevelopment and safety of the suburbs, the elimination of architectural barriers, as well as possible interventions to resolve issues subject to European infringement procedures. With two other amendments for the development of the suburbs and the road system, further spending was authorized for the development of the national system of tourist cycle paths and resources are arriving for sports facilities in the urban suburbs.
In health chapter the go-ahead has arrived for the rule according to which the auction base for public procurement procedures for biological drugs with expired patents and for which the related biosimilar drugs are on the market will no longer be "the maximum sale price to the Health Service of the reference biological drug” but the average market price of biosimilar generic drugs.
On the work front note the additional loans for the extension to 31 December 2017 of the contribution benefits for recruitment and for training courses alternating school-work. As well as the application of the rule now limited to the period 2013-2016 according to which the dismissal contribution payable by the employer (equal to 41% of ASPI's monthly ceiling for each 12 months of company seniority in the last three years) is not due in the event of dismissals due to contract changes, which are followed by employment with other employers. News also for call centers aimed at limiting the growing phenomenon of localization abroad and ensuring greater income support for workers.
In welfare chapter among yesterday's approvals, the increase in allowances for families with 4 children requested by the parliamentary group Democrazia Solidale-Centro Democratico and the compulsory leave for fathers stand out. The latter will be 2 days in 2017 and 4 in 2018. Furthermore, the experimentation introduced in the previous stability laws, which raised the leave to be used within five months of the birth of the child to 2018 days, will also be extended to 2. Full consent of the commission to the tax breaks for operators of ethical and sustainable finance: 75% of the sums destined to increase own capital are exempt from income tax.
