After a long nocturnal marathon in the Chamber, the second and final green light for the Autonomy bill has arrived. The Montecitorio Chamber in fact approved the measure with 172 yes votes, 99 votes against and 1 abstention and now the measure is law.
During the session, a brawl broke out, as on other occasions in recent days, with the opposition singing the Mameli anthem and waving tricolor flags, while, on the other hand, from the majority benches and in particular from those of the League the flags of the regions were displayed.
WHAT IT PROVIDES – The bill for differentiated autonomy is made up of 11 articles and defines the general principles and procedures of the agreements between the State and the Regions with ordinary statute for the attribution, or revocations, of further forms of autonomy .
The Bill establishes, among other things, that the attribution of functions relating to civil and social rights, which must be guaranteed equally throughout the national territory, is permitted subject to the determination of the essential performance levels (Lep). The negotiation for the attribution of new functions is proposed by the Region concerned to the Prime Minister and the Minister for Regional Affairs (before starting the State-Region comparison, the Government will inform the Chambers and the State-Regions Conference). The Prime Minister can also limit the subject of the negotiation to certain matters.
The Government is therefore delegated to determine, within 24 months of the entry into force of the law, the essential levels of services, while the transfer of functions relating to matters relating to the Lep can be decided only after the definition of these levels and the related costs and standard needs (and in any case after the allocation of the necessary financial resources).
With a modification approved during the examination by the Senate, it was specified that these resources must ensure the same essential levels of performance across the entire national territory, including the Regions that have not signed the agreements, while invariance must be guaranteed of the proportionality of the resources to be allocated to each of the other Regions, together with the equalization for the territories with lower fiscal capacity per inhabitant
