Italy

This page contains information on the bodies responsible for Structural Funds programmes and on the project control system in Italy. You may also speak directly with the Interreg Europe representatives in Italy.

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This section provides information on the system set up for control in Italy and national guidance for the 2021-2027 programming period. 

Italy uses a decentralised control system. The controller can be external and/or internal (as long as it is independent from the unit responsible for implementing the operations and the office in charge for the payments). More information will be made available soon.

The costs resulting from the control are borne by the project partners and can be reported as eligible costs in compliance with the relevant EU regulations and programme rules. These costs should therefore be planned in the project budget.

For projects where partners report equipment and/ or infrastructure & works costs related to a pilot action at least one “on-the-spot check” (done on-the-spot, not virtually) should be carried out during the project lifetime.

Based on their professional judgement, the controller can however decide to carry out an on-the-spot check for a project not reporting pilot equipment/infrastructure costs, if they deem that it has an added value for their check (e.g. in case of suspicion of fraud, issues with the partner reporting / understanding of requirements, doubts about the proper functioning of internal processes, etc.)

Updated information will be provided as soon as the topic is further defined at national level. For any precision, Italian partners can contact the approbation body.

To obtain co-financing, it is necessary to submit a specific request to the Ministry. Upon approval, the ERDF co-financing is provided progressively, contingent upon the semi-annual reporting process, in line with current regulations.

For the disbursement of the national co-financing share from the Rotation Fund, under the Interreg 2014-2020 Program managed by the former Agency for Territorial Cohesion (now the Department for Cohesion Policies and for the South), requests should be directed to:

Presidency of the Council of Ministers 
Department for Cohesion Policies and the South 
Office II for European Cohesion Policies 
Service IX "Coordination of Certification Authorities and Financial Monitoring"

Requests should be sent to the following certified email address (PEC): [email protected]

Following recent discussions between the Department and MEF-IGRUE, as well as between various departmental offices, the procedure for assigning the national co-financing quota for 2021-2027 is currently being finalized. Due to internal restructuring, responsibilities related to processing and payments have been reassigned to different offices, requiring updates to roles and functions.

Estimated Timeline: We anticipate finalizing the procedure and initiating the first disbursements by December 2024.

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You can also find some information in Italian at the following link.