Financial Risk:
Low
Score:
75/100
Asset Disposals
Q24
92/100
How effective are controls over the disposal of assets, and is information on these disposals, and the proceeds of their sale, transparent?
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The dismissal of assets owned by the State and its administrations is updated in the annual budgetary law. In particular, law 145/2018, that is…
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The procedure that GENIODIFE has to follow for the sale of valuable assets is available on the website of the Ministry of Defence [1].…
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Financial results of auctions for both open auction and pre-emption auctions for residential [1] and valuable properties [2] are published every year in disaggregated…
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Q25
75/100
Is independent and transparent scrutiny of asset disposals conducted by defence establishments, and are the reports of such scrutiny publicly available?
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The disposal of asssets of the Ministry of Defence is regulated by Decree of the President of the Republic n.90/2010 [1] and managed by…
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There is no evidence of undue influence of executive or military personnel on the work performed by the Court of Auditors. In addition, the…
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Comprehensive audit reports are available to the public but with significant delay [1]. The most recent comprehensive report was released in 2017 and covered…
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Secret Budgets
Q26
100/100
What percentage of defence and security expenditure in the budget year is dedicated to spending on secret items relating to national security and the intelligence services?
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Expenses of “reserved nature” are provided for by the annual ministerial decree approved by the annual budget law, as regulated by art. 553 of…
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Q27
25/100
Is the legislature (or the appropriate legislative committee or members of the legislature) given full information for the budget year on the spending of all secret items relating to national security and military intelligence?
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The extent of information given to the member of the Parliament over spending on secret items for national security is provided by art. 33…
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Q28
50/100
Are audit reports of the annual accounts of the security sector (the military and intelligence services) subject to parliamentary debate?
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Art. 29 of law 124/2007 determines the rules for the elaboration of the annual budget. The budget of the Intelligent Service, as any other…
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An audit report on the part of the intelligence service budget is provided to the dedicated parliamentary committee for its scrutiny (art 32 (1)…
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Q29
100/100
In law, are off-budget military expenditures permitted, and if so, are they exceptional occurrences that are well-controlled? In practice, are there any off-budget military expenditures? If so, does evidence suggest this involves illicit economic activity?
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Law n. 559 of 23 December 1993 abolished off-budget expenditures for all public administrations. The same law provides for a re-allocation of then-remaining budgets…
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Given the abolition of off-budget expenditures, as outlined in 29A, [1] it is not possible to assess the recording mechanisms. This indicator is therefore…
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Given the abolition of off-budget expenditures, as outlined in 29A, [1] no evidence could be found of them occurring.
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Q30
50/100
Are mechanisms for accessing information from the defence sector effective?
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Access to information is regulated by Decree of the President of the Ministers n. 7 of 12 June 2009 and following changes [1]. The…
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This indicator not assigned a score in the GDI. The type of information that can be subject of State secret is regulated by Decree…
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State secrecy on information cannot exceed 30 years, according to art. 38 of law 124/2007 [1]. Nonetheless, there have been cases of extension of…
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Q31
88/100
Do national defence and security institutions have beneficial ownership of commercial businesses? If so, how transparent are details of the operations and finances of such businesses?
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The Ministry of Defence is the sole shareholder of “Difesa Servizi SPA”. The company is an in-house company of the Ministry of Defence and…
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On the website of Difesa servizi SPA is possible to find a section entitled “Transparent Administration”, where all relevant information on the management of…
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Military-owned Businesses
Q32
63/100
Are military-owned businesses subject to transparent independent scrutiny at a recognised international standard?
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The budget of “Difesa Servizi SPA” is subject to external audit, as required by law and defined in the Statute of the company[1], and…
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In the section Transparent Administration it is possible to access information both on the personnel management and anticorruption measures, as well as reports on…
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Illegal Private Enterprise
Q33
88/100
Is there evidence of unauthorised private enterprise by military or other defence ministry employees? If so, what is the government’s reaction to such enterprise?
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The government strictly outlaws any unauthorised private enterprise, with appropriate sanctions in place to deal with offenders. Extra professional activities for the personnel of…
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Unauthorized private involvement used to be a bigger problem [1] [2] [3], but it seems to have been reduced in the last few years…
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Actual Military Spending
Q77
100/100
Is comprehensive data on actual spending on defence published during the budget year?
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Data on actual spending are published both on the website of the Ministry of Defence [1] and on the website of the competent oversight…
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By reading the report of the accountancy office, one can find that the actual spending of the ministry is fully disclosed and trends are…
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Details of actual spending are published in the form of editable open dataset on the website of the general accountancy office within six months…
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The annual economic report and the integrative note to the state budget report present detailed and explained information on foreseen and actual spending of…
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