Milleproroghe: stop amnesties, no building amnesty and more amnesties

No deal for the reopening of the 2003 building amnesty and for the widening of the audience for the scrapping quater, both proposed by the majority. As emerged in the Chamber's Constitutional Affairs and Budget Committees, the two amendments to the Milleproroghe decree are inadmissible.

After the failed attempt to include the measure on the building amnesty in the budget law, three identical amendments to the Milleproroghe had popped up, tabled by FdI (first signature Vietri), Lega (Zinzi) and Fi (Patriarca) to amend Article 32 of the 2003 decree and entrust the regions with the task of adopting a law implementing the amnesty.

'Different types of offences are amenable to building amnesty', was the proposed amendment, 'within the entire national territory, provided that they do not fall within the cases of absolute insusceptibility of amnesty'.

For constructions in seismic areas, "for the purposes of the amnesty, it remains, in any case, that the intervention must comply with the technical standards for constructions in seismic areas in force both at the time of its realisation and at the time the amnesty permit is issued". The amendment entrusted the Regions, within 60 days of the measure coming into force, with the duty of "adopting an implementation law" with which to determine "the possibilities, conditions and procedures for eligibility for amnesty".

The aim, in short, was to reopen the 2003 building amnesty, when Silvio Berlusconi was in Palazzo Chigi. The measure potentially concerned the whole of Italy, but in fact it was designed especially for Campania, which at the time, under Bassolino's leadership, did not join in.