The Council of Ministers, in a summit that lasted just 15 minutes, approved the decree law on justice, but left the measures regarding cybersecurity pending , unlike what was initially learned. As government sources explain, "further investigations" by the "competent offices" have been decided.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure Matteo Salvini did not attend, having returned to Milan for family reasons. And it was the last Council of Ministers for Raffaele Fitto, Minister for European Affairs, the South, Cohesion Policies and the PNRR, who will soon resign to take up the post of Executive Vice President of the EU Commission and Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms from 1 December.

The frictions with Forza Italia

Rejected twice at the last minute from the Council of Ministers' agenda, the measure, among other things, should entrust the National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate with the power to promote and coordinate investigations into cyber crime . The decree - 12 articles according to the draft circulated the day before - bears the signature of the Minister of Justice, Carlo Nordio, and contains a series of heterogeneous measures, including - for example - the initiation of disciplinary action for magistrates who do not abstain from proceedings "when there are serious reasons of convenience". A rule that has been heavily criticized by the judiciary, who immediately spoke of a "gag".

Article 8 provides for the new cyber law, a crackdown after the investigations in Milan and Perugia into unauthorized access to databases. Mandatory arrest in flagrante delicto is thus introduced for crimes of unauthorized access to a computer system of military interest or relating to public order or public safety or health or civil protection or in any case of public interest . And the National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor will exercise the functions of impetus towards the district prosecutors for the coordination of investigative activities on these crimes.

The draft, however, did not pass the examination of Forza Italia. "It will not pass like this. After the Striano case, it does not seem to me to be the case to even strengthen the power of impulse of the National Prosecutor's Office", was the position expressed by the president of the Forza Italia senators, Maurizio Gasparri.

The Amazon Web Services Program

Also approved was the resolution declaring the national strategic interest of the initial investment program of 1.2 billion euros presented by Amazon Web Services (AWS), to establish and expand cloud infrastructure and services in Italy. Specifically, the investment program of Amazon Web Services includes the construction of new cloud infrastructures in the Metropolitan Area of Milan, to complement the existing ones started in Lombardy in April 2020.

The resolution opens the way to the appointment of an Extraordinary Government Commissioner, with ordinance powers even in derogation from current legislation, with the task of issuing a "single authorization" that brings together all the necessary acts provided for by current legislation, essential for the execution of the works related to the implementation of the program, thus speeding up the times.

"The investment - the press release states - will have a significant impact on job creation and economic development in the area, with an estimated 1,100 new jobs over the next five years."

(Online Union)

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