Reform of the professions, new rules for 1.6 million members
Four bills are expected in the Council of Ministers: two for lawyers and accountants, one overall for the other orders, one on doctors
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The government opens the construction site of the reform of the professions: on the agenda of today's pre-Council of Ministers are, among others, four measures on the subject.
In addition to an overall proxy bill 'for the reform of the professional orders', presented by the Ministries of Labour and Justice, there are also expected to be proxy bills for the reform of the forensic profession, one for the reform of the profession of commercialist and accountant (both from Justice), and, finally, one on the reform of the health professions that also contains the penal shield for healthcare professionals, developed by the Ministry of Health.
The conditional is a must: on all the texts the work of filing continued throughout yesterday, Wednesday 3 September, as did the pressure also from part of the world of the professions to ask for changes and from the trade unions ANC (accountants) and ANF (lawyers) the postponement of the launch of the measures in the sector, on which there is not yet full agreement in the same world ordinists. And, therefore, the arrival of all four texts at the Council of Ministers in the afternoon is not taken for granted.
The last organic intervention on the professions dates back to 2011 with Decree-Law 138, later implemented by Presidential Decree 137 of 2012, which dictated general rules, valid for all professions, on professional registers, apprenticeships, continuous training and disciplinary procedures. Since then, the sector, which comprises more than 1.6 million professionals, has seen many patchy interventions.
The overall reform of this sector could concern specific competences so as to avoid 'encroachments'. According to rumours that have yet to be confirmed, the bills could also intervene on both national and territorial electoral rules. In this regard, there also seems to be on the table the hypothesis of an extension - linked to the launch of the new rules - of the current councils. A rule in this direction would certainly have an impact on the boards of accountants and lawyers. It is then to be understood what the coordination between the general reform and those specific to these two categories will be.
