Government approval of new three-year flow decree and bill on performance appraisal and career development in the public administration

New rules for measuring and evaluating performance and career development in the public administration. And, on the front of the management of migratory flows, a new three-year flows decree arrives. The meeting of the Council of Ministers ended after about half an hour at Palazzo Chigi. On this occasion, in addition to the two measures on the PA and the 'merit decree', the green light was also given by the executive for the bill on the General State Accounts for 2024 and the provisions for the budget adjustment for the year 2025. According to information, the statement of accounts, which was certified by the Court of Auditors on 26 June, shows an improvement in all balances on both the accrual and cash basis. According to the results of the 2024 financial management, on an accrual basis, the net balance to be financed and recourse to the market amounted to 107,543 million and 393,108 million, respectively. In cash terms, the levels actually achieved by the balances were -151,482 million for the net balance to be financed and -435,411 million for market recourse, respectively.

"Final go-ahead in today's session of the Council of Ministers for the draft law on the measurement and evaluation of performance and career development". This was announced by the Ministry of Public Administration, recalling that the measure, already approved in preliminary session on 13 March, acquired, on 12 June, the favourable opinion of the Unified Conference. "With the final passage in the Council of Ministers of the draft law on merit we mark a further step forward in the process of this measure, which will now be examined by Parliament," said the Minister for Public Administration, Paolo Zangrillo, on the sidelines of today's Council of Ministers.

The measure, the ministry explained in a note, provides for a pcareer development path based on merit to gain access to management. In addition to the competition, "through a mechanism that respects the principles of impartiality, publicity and transparency, officials, who have been in service for at least five years, by participating in specific calls for applications published by the administration, are assessed on the basis of performance, on the performance of a test and a detailed report, signed by the candidate's supervising manager".

The executive also approved a flows decree defining the entry quotas for regular migrants. The dpcm, which concerns seasonal and non-seasonal workers, domestic helpers and caregivers, provides for about 500,000 regular entries of foreign workers for the three-year period 2026-2028. Specifically, reads the final communiqué of the Council of Ministers, the decree provides, 'for 2026, 164,850 authorised entries. Over the three-year period 2026-2028, the authorised units will be 497,550, with the following breakdown: non-seasonal and self-employed work, 230,550 units; seasonal work in the agricultural and tourism sectors, 267,000 units'.

According to the anticipations circulated before the executive meeting, the preferential quotas will be reserved "for workers from States that, also in cooperation with the Italian State, promote media campaigns for their citizens concerning the risks for personal safety deriving from involvement in irregular migratory trafficking, in accordance with agreements or understandings, however denominated, concluded on the matter with Italy, commensurating such quotas to the entries actually occurred for that reason in the previous three-year period". There remains the click-day mechanism.