Transparency in the management of tenders and in the procedures for awarding works, the fight against corruption, undeclared work and irregular contributions, new environmental rules oriented towards legality in the treatment of waste and all production materials, sharing of information since start-up phase of tender procedures and supervision of the use of raw materials, employee training. These are the key principles of "Network Security", the project that will be implemented following the Memorandum of Understanding that Matteo Del Fante, Terna's CEO, and Giorgio Toschi, general commander of the Guardia di Finanza, signed today, at the presence of the president of Terna Catia Bastioli and the director of Terna's Corporate Affairs division Giuseppe Lasco.
The aim is to strengthen the prevention of the risk of criminal infiltration into the economic fabric and protect the legality in the construction of electricity infrastructures. Terna, which has already invested over 10 billion euros since 2005 for the modernization of the national electricity transmission grid, has an important investment program underway: there are others 3,3 billion envisaged in the 2016-2019 strategic plan It is currently it employs 353 enterprises and 4.000 workers every day on construction sites throughout Italy. A huge economic commitment that the Company has decided to face with an integrated security model, which is based on risk sharing with institutional partners and the police force. The core element of this system is the Security Operations Center, the integrated security system for the management and analysis of over 70 million data a day, which guarantees the monitoring of the physical and logical elements of Terna's assets.
"The agreement consolidates the fruitful collaboration that already exists between the Guardia di Finanza and the manager of the electricity grid - commented the General Commander of the Guardia di Finanza Giorgio Toschi – in a perspective of maximum protection of the dynamics of free competition in the market". “This synergy with the Guardia di Finanza – added lCEO of Terna, Matteo Del Fante – represents a further step forward towards total transparency and the fight against corruption. We are extremely proud to continue and expand our collaboration with the Corps, to guarantee the quality and transparency of our work and once again make a concrete contribution to the development of the country".
Terna has a task force of 15 people dedicated to the project who will have the task of studying information and data collected through ten different platforms and then sharing them with the Guardia di Finanza. The agreement envisages a common commitment to fight undeclared work and tax irregularities, control over the correct destination and use of raw materials and semi-finished products, great attention towards the protection of the environment, the health and safety of workers.
The Company has also created the portal "GdF Terna Construction Sites: Contracts and Subcontracts", a tool for the exclusive use of the Guardia di Finanza which allows the departments of the Corps to have an information flow available for the acquisition of information on investigative activities carried out in the area.
The agreement renews and expands the areas of activity envisaged by the agreements already signed in 2009 between the Fiamme Gialle and the company that manages the national electricity grid and follows the path started in 2015 with the launch of “Open & Transparent Building Sites”, a web space dedicated to construction sites where all the up-to-date data on contracts, award procedures, procurement and subcontracting.
The creation of an integrated security system and the agreements stipulated in recent years with institutions and law enforcement agencies have also brought Terna recognition, including the primacy among companies in the electricity sector in the prevention of corruption and in the company ranking Vigeo sustainability rating, as well as the maximum level in the Agcm legality rating also in 2016.
(In the picture: Catia Bastioli, president of Terna, Giorgio Toschi, general commander of the Guardia di Finanza, Matteo Del Fante, CEO of Terna)
