Puglia Region prepares changes to differentiated autonomy

The Puglia Region is ready to submit a proposal to amend the law to the Chambers Calderoli on differentiated autonomy. The bill is was fired today by the regional council at the request of the President Michele Emiliano: "With this bill - explains President Emiliano - we aim to achieve full implementation of the constitutional model of fiscal federalism 'cooperative' as an essential condition for them to be able to to attribute to themselves forms of differentiated autonomy". In the bill - explains a note from the Region - the application of the differentiated regionalism is subordinated to the prior full operation of the equalization fund referred to in Article 119, paragraph 3, of the Constitution. Furthermore, "it provides for the elimination of unfair differences wanted by Calderoli between Lep subjects and subjects not Lep: the framework redefined by the Constitutional Court outlines instead the need to keep separate not the subjects but the functions relating to performances concerning rights civil or social from the others". "The proposal - the note further explains - welcomes another fundamental point indicated by the Court: by virtue of the principle of subsidiarity, the request for additional functions by of the Regions must be motivated in terms of increase of system efficiency. Finally, also noteworthy is the forecast that, before the start of the negotiations, the president of the Council of Ministers, or the Minister for Foreign Affairs regional and autonomous bodies delegated by him, transmit to the Permanent Conference for Relations between the State, the Regions and the autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano the act of initiative, so that the Regions and autonomous Provinces, different from the applicant, can submit observations of which must be taken into account during the negotiation". The bill was prepared by the members external members of the study group wanted by Emiliano, coordinated by head of the regional legal office Rossana Lanza, and composed of administrative magistrates Silvia Piemonte and Claudia Lattanzi and the full professors of the University of Bari Cosimo Pietro Guarini, Pierdomenico Logroscino and Vitorocco Peragine.