Late and ineffective measures to reduce settlement times

Decree Law 117 of 8 August only partly incorporates the measures proposed by the Csm to achieve the Pnrr objectives and seeks to increase the number of judges in the suffering offices.

However, many interventions appear late, cumbersome and cumbersome, and are therefore likely to fall short of the Pnrr targets. The data showed some time ago that several offices, despite the considerable investment in the process office, would not be able to contribute to the achievement of the Pnrr goals, and trying to remedy this now with late and inconsistent interventions seems unrealistic. Let us see why.

The (few) honorary justices of the peace, whose offices are already overburdened, but whose litigation is not included in the objectives of the NRP, may be employed in the courts. However, the number of cases to be disposed of is not defined and there is no provision for an additional allowance.

No more than 20 magistrates (again, only a few) from offices in the appeal court districts that had already reached the NRP targets on 30 June 2025 (the figures are not yet available but should not be many) may also be transferred, obviously on application and for a maximum period of two years and thus also beyond 30 June 2026, to appeal courts that have not reached the targets. The decree does not indicate the number of cases to be settled but provides for a gross additional allowance of EUR 46,022, plus EUR 13,879 as an installation allowance.

However, the planned procedure is necessarily lengthy and it will take at least a few months before the magistrates are operational.