Pa: fewer than one in three pieces of legislation contains a list of the amendments introduced

In 2025, there were 54 measures adopted by central government departments that introduced or abolished reporting requirements for businesses and citizens. However, only 15 of these were accompanied by a list explaining the changes introduced: 27.7 per cent of the total. Forty-eight of the measures adopted were published on the administrations’ websites – just under 89 per cent – and 41, or almost 76 per cent, were published in the Official Gazette. This is what emerges from the ‘Report on the state of implementation of the provisions concerning the reduction and transparency of administrative obligations for citizens and businesses’ for 2025, submitted by the Ministry of Public Administration to the Presidency on 25 March 2026 and published on the Chamber of Deputies’ website on 24 July 2026.

If we compare the various ministries, it is the Ministry for Enterprise and ‘Made in Italy’ has adopted the highest number of measures mentioning burdens that have been introduced or removed: 27, for 14 of which documentation relating to the changes made has been provided. Furthermore, the ministry headed by Adolfo Urso has published details of 25 of these on its website and has published details of 26 in the Official Gazette. Next comes the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, which has introduced 10 measures amending the charges, either by introducing or removing them: all of these have been published on the website of the Ministry headed by Marina Elvira Calderone, and five in the Official Gazette. In no case, however, has a list been drawn up to set out the changes.

According to the report, ‘the measures issued by public authorities can be regarded as a sample illustrating that the rate of publication of lists of administrative burdens is very low’: in fact, in less than a third of the measures, a list of the administrative burdens introduced or abolished is included. The publication of these lists, the study explains, has declined in the years following the repeal, in 2016, of Article 34 of Legislative Decree 33/2013. However, the obligation to report on these changes remains, as provided for in Article 7 of Law 180/2011. Furthermore, in 2011, Italy joined the Open Government Partnership (OGP), which aims to secure concrete commitments from governments to promote transparency, civic participation and the adoption of technologies to drive innovation in public administrations.

The report concludes that public authorities must prevent the introduction of excessive or disproportionate information requirements, whilst at the same time making the new obligations immediately accessible to citizens and businesses. The report states that digitalisation as a means of standardising information flows and ensuring interoperability between databases.