(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 28 - The government is drafting an implementing decree for Italy's revised post-Covid national recovery and resilience plan (NRRP), sources said on Tuesday.
    The draft should be discussed at at the next meeting of the NRRP steering committee on Friday, the sources added.
    The EU-funded programme now worth 194.4 billion euro to make the national economy greener and more modern has been restructured on the basis of objective criteria and the implementing decree is to include a provision on the time-frame in order to hold all implementing bodies to account, according to the sources. Those that fail to meet the deadlines set out in the NRRP will be liable for non-compliance.
    Italy's revised NRRP, signed off by the European Commission on Friday, covers 66 reforms - seven more than the original plan - 150 investments and 145 new or modified measures, including the interventions set out under the new REPowerEU chapter to reduce dependency on Russian fossil fuels.
    These measures aim to strengthen key reforms in areas such as justice, public procurement and competition law, the EC said.
    "We consider the restructuring of the NRRP to be positive," said Confindustria President Carlo Bonomi on Tuesday, adding that the revised plan now includes around 6 billion euro for the digital and green transitions in industry.
    "That is what we had been asking for. Now we hope that the (implementing) decrees will be passed quickly and that companies' requests will be listened to, so that these investments can be landed quickly and well," he continued.
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