The government is considering the competition billone of the 69 objectives assigned by the PNRR which must be launched by 31 December to access the seventh installment of 18.2 billion. Among the relevant provisions to be examined will be the so-called save-outdoors up to Portability of black box data on cars. On the motorway concessions, indicated by several voices in the package, a discussion is underway with the EU Commission which has raised some objections on a preliminary draft, the MIT reports.
The first consolidated texts for the reorganization of tax legislation, in implementation of the tax delegation, will also be on the executive’s table. As for outdoor seating, the aim is to make the measure passed during the pandemic structural to allow customers of bars and restaurants to be able to stay outdoors, reducing the risk of contagion. It would therefore be an extension of the legislation for restaurants and commerce, linked to the provisional status of the measure. But it will perhaps be the last extension. From what we understand, the government is in fact working on a new regulatory instrument to make the possibility structural. Perhaps with more stringent rules for public decorum. Both the Anci, the Ministry of Culture and the superintendencies are involved in the preparatory work.
There will also be measures on car insurance to encourage competition and simplify the procedures for switching from one company to another. They concern in particular the data of the black box. It is expected that when switching between one company and another the data, at least the critical ones, can be transferred. A rule that however does not meet with the approval of consumers: «the black box was introduced with the Insurance Code to reduce fraud, now instead it is mainly used to build the prices of car insurance policies, risking destroying the system of mutuality between insured parties», says Stefano Mannacio, head of the insurance sector of Assoutenti. «Systems such as the portability of policies can be useful for increasing competition between companies and the mobility of insured parties, but the problem is that the legislative system that introduced the black box tool is completely unclear. It is monstrous that in Italy more black boxes are installed than those mounted in the whole world». Federcarrozzieri doesn’t like the rule either: “in terms of competition law, rather than focusing on black boxes, the government and Parliament would do well to work against the unfair practices of insurance companies that restrict competition and harm the insured through unfair and illegitimate clauses”. Finally, as regards the tax delegation, there are three legislative decrees for which a preliminary examination is foreseen: one on the consolidated text of administrative and criminal tax sanctions, another on the consolidated text of minor state taxes and a third on the consolidated text of tax justice.