The NRRP to the Civil Protection Department

Both "existing projects" and "new projects" concern interventions on public property, referring to the types provided by Legislative Decree No. 1/2018, Article 25, paragraph 2, letters d) and e).

For both types, it is necessary to ensure that economic operators, in the execution of public contracts, comply with applicable obligations under environmental law or the National Action Plan on Green Public Procurement - NAP GPP.

Necessary conditions for access to funding are the compliance with the principle of "Do No Significant Harm" DNSH under Article 17 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852) and the constraint of the allocation of 40 percent to the regions of the South - under paragraph 6 bis, Article 2, of Decree-Law No. 77/2021, converted into Law No. 108 of July 29, 2021.

Finally, compliance with milestones and targets assigned to the investment is imperative.
The milestone requires the publication of the acts approving the plans of interventions on the institutional websites of the Regions and Autonomous Provinces and the Department of Civil Protection by December 31, 2021. 

The assigned target corresponds to the completion of interventions by December 31, 2025.

In agreement with the Regions and Autonomous Provinces, the principle identified for the allocation of funds for both types of projects, in compliance with the constraint of the allocation of 40% to the regions of Southern Italy, was that identified by the Decree of the President of the Council of Ministers of December 5, 2016 on "Approval of the indicator of allocation on a regional basis of the resources aimed at hydrogeological risk mitigation interventions" (Table 1 available below and in annex).

The project lists were approved based on the reported proposals for "existing " projects and after their eligibility was verified.

Some regions proposed a list for less than the allocated amount. Other regions proposed no list at all. This was because of the differentiation at the territorial level regarding the possibility of proposing lists of interventions to be reported as beneficiaries of resources for past emergencies that were lower than the allocation or not beneficiaries of resources, such as the regions of Campania, Puglia, and Valle d'Aosta.

Therefore, lists were approved based on the additional interventions proposed by the regions and provinces and eligible until the total of 400 million available was reached.

Thus, two approvals were made: one regarding the allocated amount and the other on additional proposed "existing " projects for the Regions and Autonomous Provinces that requested them.

The allocation of resources based on the two approvals is shown in Table 2 (available in annex).
Regarding the implementation of the existing projects, in liaison with the Regions, Autonomous Provinces, the Department for Economic Policy Programming and Coordination (DIPE), and the Central Service for the NRRP, a Single Project Code (CUP) control activity was initiated for each of the approved interventions as of December 31, 2021. 

The monitoring activity revealed some anomalies, a total of eight, related to the status of the CUP.
 
For these anomalies, corrections of the erroneously communicated CUP were necessary, or in some cases, the replacement of the corresponding interventions with others already on the lists provided by the Regions and Autonomous Provinces that met the requirements of the NRRP regulations for access to resources. As a result, resources were reallocated to other interventions in the Region's availability, if any, or otherwise from the lists of other Regions and Autonomous Provinces. 

Table 2bis shows the new summary of the amounts allocated to the Regions and Autonomous Provinces. 

Following the Court of Auditors' registration of the approval Decrees for the lists of interventions resulting from the Plans approved by December 31, 2021, by the provisions of the Decree of the President of the Council of Ministers of August 23, 2022, the Department proceeded to sign Agreements, under Art. 15 of Law No. 241/1990, with the Regions and Autonomous Provinces, to regulate the joint implementation of everyday interest activities through a specific division of responsibilities and obligations related to the management, monitoring, reporting, and control of the interventions accepted for funding.

As of today, 20 Agreements have been signed.

On the basis of the proposals for "new" projects communicated, and following the verification of their eligibility, albeit in detail of macro-interventions, the approvals of the lists proposed by the Regions and Autonomous Provinces were arrived at, as shown in Table 3 (available below and in annex).