Pnrr and Court of Auditors, the EU: “Adequate controls are needed”

MILAN – The government’s tightening on preventive control of the Court of Auditors on the projects of Pnrr, introduced with an amendment to the PA decree, is already under observation by Brussels. The European Commission has “an agreement” with Italy on the “need to have effective audit control” on the implementation of the Pnrr and “it is up to the Italian authorities to ensure that these bodies function” adequately, said the Commission’s chief spokesman European, Eric Mamer, responding during the press briefing to a question regarding the intervention of the executive. For the spokeswoman for the Economy Veerle Nuyts “this is a draft law” and “as a general rule we do not comment on draft legislation”. However, the Pnrr “needs an adequate control framework”, because “national control systems are a tool for the protection of the EU’s interests”, he concluded.

Cassese: “The government’s intervention is right”

Sabino Cassese, on the other hand, took sides in defense of the government’s intervention. “The government did very well to limit the preventive control of the Court of Auditors,” said the president emeritus of the Constitutional Court, during a meeting at the Turin Economy Festival. “There are merit aspects of the controls and methodological aspects of the way in which this affair took place which prove the government completely right and demonstrate that the large state corporations should rethink the way they act towards the state of which they are the representatives,” Cassese explained.