Pnrr decree, here are the simplifications: from the pre-filled Isee to the identity card for the over 70s

Created to make the final sprint of the remodelled plan to the end of 2025 possible, the decree on the NRP expected in the council of ministers by the end of the month also packs a new, substantial set of simplifications.

The one that promises to have a more direct impact on daily life is the pre-filled Isee: schools, universities, municipalities and all the other public administrations that grant discounts and bonuses based on the indicator will have to 'acquire ex officio the data strictly necessary for the granting of facilitated social benefits through the Inps national digital platform', thus avoiding the obligation to submit the declaration to families requesting 'economic benefits in the field of the right to study or facilitations in the payment of canteens and university fees and in many other areas', as the explanatory report details. The rule does not provide for a transitional phase, and will therefore come into effect immediately, with the entry into force of the decree. Just in time to avoid the rush to make the declaration, which is usually thick right in February, when a substantial slice of the more than 10 million Dsu's submitted each year crowd in. In addition to simplifying life, the pre-filled Isee also aims to avoid the many false declarations that open the way to benefits that are not due, because the preparation by the PA should prevent fraud ex ante.

A target group of 10 million people is also affected by the other simplification prepared by the Ministry for the Public Administration led by Paolo Zangrillo: they are the over-70s, who will be entitled to a new electronic identity card valid for 50 years, thus with unlimited expiry except for the exceptionally long-lived. The life of the document is also extended to half a century for identity cards already issued to people aged 70 or over at the time of renewal, but only for recognition in Italy. Those who will be at least 70 years old when the conversion law comes into force, i.e. around the end of March, will, however, be able to apply for a new Cie, thus valid for expatriation, even if their current document has not expired. Other novelties then concern the voter card, which will be made available by the National Register of the Resident Population to registered citizens. Over the next 12 months, the Ministry of the Interior will issue its own decrees regulating the digital voter card, which may be incorporated into the It-Wallet system. The digital card will be used for those who can vote outside their polling station, where instead only the analogue version will be usable to avoid the risks of double voting.

Because of its widespread effects on everyday life, the Zangrillo-package earns a prominent position on the scene of a decree that, however, was created to accompany the last run of the remodelled NRP.
Now there is no more time to make mistakes, or even to rethink stages and deadlines: the only road is implementation, and the decree, in addition to dealing with many sectoral aspects, tries to armour it. Within 45 days, first of all, the implementing bodies will have to enter into ReGis, the Mef's big brain, the 'physical, procedural and financial chronoprogramme' updated to 31 December of each programme and intervention of the Plan, along the more than 306,000 projects surveyed by ItaliaDomani. On these measures, Palazzo Chigi will be able to exercise substitutive powers in the event of delays, and sanctions will be triggered for the recovery of unused funds from the PA that do not respect the Plan's objectives.
The decisive services conference will also become structural, with the aim of speeding up times and avoiding bottlenecks: opinions will have to arrive within 30 days (45 in the case of environmental protection, landscape-territorial protection, or cultural heritage, health or public safety), but above all, any 'no' votes will have to be more precisely motivated and accompanied by instructions on how to overcome the refusal, with prescriptions in line with the principles of proportionality, effectiveness and financial sustainability.