The building reform approved yesterday by the Council of Ministers takes the form of an enabling bill which gives the government 12 months to review the Consolidated Law on Building.
The objective is to simplify, digitize, avoid duplication and give certainty and common rules to the sector throughout the national territory, avoiding different interpretations and implementations between the various areas of the country. Here are some of the key points of the bill.
FASTER CANCELATIONS FOR HISTORICAL ABUSE – For the regularization of abuses carried out before the entry into force of the so-called bridging law of 1967, simplified and facilitated procedures are envisaged, provided that “the essential interventions to make the property safe or to adapt it to the mandatory technical construction standards” are carried out.
WIDER SILENCE-ASSENT – To reduce the deadlines for issuing or issuing building permits and counteract “bureaucratic inaction”, “renewed emphasis will be placed on the mechanism of silence-assent or silence-devolution in the event of inertia on the part of the competent administration”.
RESOLUTION TO SUBSTITUTE POWERS – To ensure the certainty of the timing of proceedings, procedural mechanisms must be defined that ensure compliance with “peremptory deadlines, possibly providing substitute powers or solutions to overcome blockages resulting from delays or disagreements between the administrations involved”.
THE SINGLE POINT OF ACCESS ARRIVES – To make life easier for citizens, “a single access point is provided for all questions, declarations, reports, communications, administrative matters concerning the qualification and the building intervention”.
LIMIT TO REQUESTS FROM THE PA – The bill establishes “the right of all interested parties not to be recipients of requests for documents, information and data already in possession of the public administration for the purposes of issuing building permits”.
UNIFORM RULES AT NATIONAL LEVEL WITH LEP – Some essential performance levels will be determined at state level in order to overcome regional differences. “mandatory” technical standards of safety, hygiene, healthiness and energy saving of buildings and systems will therefore be stable; equally “mandatory” requirements relating to the forms of supervision of urban planning and construction activities; standard types of building violations and deviations from design measures.
STOP DOUBLE DIFFERENCES – At a national level, “a common classification of the types of non-conformities from the building permit will have to be defined, including in this review also the regulation of building tolerances”. The objective, also in this case, is to overcome the differences between Regions. Overcoming double compliance will also be confirmed.
REORGANIZATION OF AUTHORIZATIONS – The delegation provides for the rationalization of the authorizations, i.e. the various forms of Cila and Scia. It will also be clearly established when it will be possible to proceed under the free construction regime, without the need for authorization.