Among the dossiers on the table is the future of Transition 5.0. At the moment, a situation of immediate insufficiency of resources does not emerge, but the strong increase in bookings for hyper-amortization on the GSE platform could make a further allocation necessary. The hypothesis of a refinancing is accompanied by a broader perspective: the government is also evaluating the possibility of extending the duration of the program. The objective would be to offer companies a longer time horizon to organize investments in innovation. In the current configuration, the plan concerns investments made until 30 September 2028. According to the latest numbers indicated by the Minister of Business and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, the requests presented are around 20 thousand and the projects linked to preventive communications are worth a total of around 6 billion euros of planned investments.
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Another chapter concerns the Single Special Economic Zone. The first hypothesized intervention consists in the refinancing of the tax credit intended for investments made in the current perimeter of the SEZ, which includes the regions of Southern Italy together with Umbria and Marche. Regarding the financing of the measure, the undersecretary of the South Luigi Sbarra aims to at least replicate the commitment envisaged in the previous budget law: around 4 billion euros distributed over a period of three years.
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At the same time, an extension of the Zes model to the Centre-North is also being evaluated. In this case, however, the hypothesis would be much more limited and would mainly concern administrative simplification procedures. The objective is to avoid both possible disputes from the European Union on the expansion of the tax benefit and an excessively high financial requirement. The extension of the "single authorisation" could therefore also be selective, focusing on certain production sectors. Among the hypotheses considered, for example, is the renewable energy sector, with access to the procedure reserved for investments above a certain threshold.
Development contracts and Nuova Sabatini should also be included among the instruments intended to receive new resources. These are two measures that should continue to operate even after the incentive reform developed by Mimit. Both had already benefited from an increase in availability with last year's Budget Law. However, the number of applications submitted and the speed with which the appropriations are used could push the government to intervene again to ensure the continuity of the instruments.
During the parliamentary process of the measure, the appliance bonus could also be proposed again. The measure, introduced by Mimit at the end of last year with an availability of 50 million euros, had exhausted resources within a few hours. The possible refinancing should be evaluated together with the extension of the furniture and appliances bonus linked to building renovation interventions. The two incentives, in the hypothesis currently being studied, would not be cumulative: the taxpayer would therefore have to choose which incentive to use.
Furthermore, on the community front, Italy is working with Poland, France and Germany on an informal document dedicated precisely to the household appliances sector. The non-paper urges the European Commission to prepare a plan to strengthen innovation and competitiveness of the plants, ensure conditions of reciprocity towards Asian competition and introduce community instruments capable of supporting demand, following the Italian bonus model.
Finally, the former Ilva dossier remains open, while decisive indications on the future of the hot area are awaited from the Court of Cassation. In the meantime, the executive is preparing a possible industrial reorganization of the steel industry. On the table there would be a new allocation of 400 million euros for the plant for the production of pre-reduced, the iron-based semi-finished product needed to power Taranto's future electric oven. The financing is expected to proceed regardless of the outcome of the tender currently underway for the future of the plant. Among the parties most interested is the Indian Jindal group, while on the Italian side there is the consortium led by Federacciai, which has so far formalized an expression of interest. The new resources, equal to 400 million euros, would be added to the existing budget, less than 800 million. These funds, through the Pnrr decree approved in June, were allocated to development contracts aimed more generally at the decarbonisation processes of the steel sector.
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