Le slide presentate nel corso della scuola estiva del progetto "Good(s) monitoring europe!" (Palermo, 7-10 luglio 2021) dalla coordinatrice di OpenCoesione, Simona De Luca.

1. GME! Summer School - 7/10 July 2021, Palermo (Italy)
Cohesion policies in Italy and the valorisation of confiscated assets
Simona De Luca – Evaluation Unit – Dept for Cohesion Policy – Italian Presidency of the Council of the Ministers

2. # of confiscated assets in Italy
More than 20,000
properties and 3,000
companies.
Territorial concentration in
Southern Italy (Sicily,
Campania, Calabria, Apulia)
but significant presence
also in Lombardy
Data from the Italian National
Agency on Confiscated Assets
(ANBSC)

3. # of reuse projects on confiscated assets in Italy
Data mapped by Confiscati Bene, a participatory project carried out by Libera and OnData (a group of
journalists, open data and anti-mafia activists and technologists)

4. Cohesion Policies for the reuse of confiscated assets
In Italy seizures and confiscation have reached significant capital, economic and
financial value
Rognoni-La Torre Law of 1982, Law 109/1996
EU Directive on the confiscation of assets, adopted in February 2014 suggests
to MS to adopt measures for the reuse of confiscated assets for public and
social purposes
Confiscated assets can play a relevant role in territorial development
supported by cohesion policies with the common objectives of reducing
territorial disparities and promoting social inclusion

5. The process to define the National Strategy on the reuse of
confiscated assets funded by Cohesion Policy /1
2014
•Economic and financial planning document
•The need to prevent the conditioning of organized crime on the circuits of
the legal economy and to support economic and social revitalization by
intensifying the fight against corruption, illegality and organized crime (...)
through the use of European funds through new processes of
management and destination of organized crime confiscated assets
2014
•2014-2020 Italian Partnership Agreement
•The definitively confiscated asset is a publicly owned asset and therefore
all the actions and tools provided for in each Thematic Objective of the
AdP can be used for recovery, enhancement and management. Reaffirm
the principle of legality also through the use of a confiscated property with
the aim of ensuring the access of all citizens to basic resources, social
services, the labor market and fundamental rights. The confiscated
property therefore represents an opportunity to create welfare, social
protection, reception, educational function, work reintegration of
disadvantaged people and legality

6. 2015
•Economic and financial planning document
•Definition of a National strategy for the reuse of organized crime confiscated
assets (properties and businesses)
2016
•Stability Law
•Art. 192: the National Agency (ANBSC) promotes specific actions to
strengthen and develop its institutional functions, with the aim of ensuring
the effectiveness and sustainability of the national strategy for the reuse of
confiscated assets
•Art. 194: in Cohesion Policy OPs (financed by EU and national resources)
specific actions for the reuse of confiscated assets
•Art. 195: 10 M € / year three-year period 16/18 of national ordinary
resources to ensure access to bank credit for seized and confiscated
companies, support for investments for corporate restructuring, protection
of employment levels, promotion of measures for the emergence of
irregular work, protection of health and safety at work
The process to define the National Strategy on the reuse of
confiscated assets funded by Cohesion Policy /2

7. 2016
•Confiscated Assets and Territorial Cohesion Action Plan
•Preliminary study drawn up as part of the External Evaluation Activities
funded by the 2007-2013 PON GAT. The study, in highlighting the need for a
National Action Plan indicates its contents and phases and outlines what will
be the setting of the future Strategy
2016
•Economic and financial planning document
•Continue the action to strengthen the structures and tools for the reuse in
favor of citizens and national economy.
•The valorisation process needs coordination between the Administrations to
ensure the definition of a national strategy, operational planning of
interventions, monitoring and verification of results.
•In addition to the ordinary resources allocated with the LS 2016, during the
three-year period 2016-2018, resources can be activated within the
programs co-financed by the European Union for the 2014-2020
programming period
•The final goal, over the three-year period 2016-8, is to make the reuse
process more effective and structural.
The process to define the National Strategy on the reuse of
confiscated assets funded by Cohesion Policy /3

8. 2017
•Budget Law (art.1 c. 611)
•The ANBSC prepares, in collaboration with PCM-DPCoe, a national
strategy for the reuse of organized crime confiscated assets to be
submitted for approval by the CIPE, after consulting the State-Regions
Permanent Conference.
•In line with the strategy, the the 2014/20 ESI Funds OPs, set out specific
actions aimed at valorisation. National funds can be increased by EU and
National resources for Cohesion Policy. An additional € 10 million
expenditure is authorized for the year 2019 from the state budget for the
refinancing of c. 195 LS 2016
2017
•Working Group to draft the Strategy document (Dept. for Cohesion Policy,
Agency for Territorial Cohesion, ANBSC, Ministry of Economics and
Finance supported by TA figures)
•Economic and financial planning document
•The reuse of seized and confiscated assets is an important tool for
territorial development. To the resources allocated by the 2017 BL, it will
be possible to add 2014-2020 EU and national cohesion. The reuse
process passes through "close coordination between the administrations
concerned and" ANBSC, "with the aim of defining the national strategy”
The process to define the National Strategy on the reuse of
confiscated assets funded by Cohesion Policy /4

9. 2018
•Economic and financial planning document
•The ANBSC has prepared the National Strategy for the reuse of organized
crime confiscated assets with the general objective of using the assets
seized from organized crime, through enhancement interventions also
supported by cohesion policies, with national and European resources. .
•Once the strategic component has been defined, after the Strategy has
been approved by CIPE (the National planning Committee), the
operational phase will be carried out, through close coordination between
the Administrations involved
2018
•Official Journal of CIPE Resolution no. 53/2018
•Publication of the National Strategy on the reuse of confiscated assets
funded by Cohesion Policy
The process to define the National Strategy on the reuse of
confiscated assets funded by Cohesion Policy /5

10. A National Strategy on the reuse of confiscated
assets funded by Cohesion Policy
General objective
Effective and efficient reuse of organized crime confiscated properties and
business through enhancement interventions supported by cohesion policies
Three action pillars (Specific Objectives):
1. Institutional management and cooperation capacity (transparency of
information, relevance of citizens’ monitoring and best practices of
management and social re-use)
2. Infrastructures
3. Companies
opencoesione.gov.it/en/strategia_beni_confiscati_2014_2020

11. The National Strategy: Specific Objective 1
Institutional management and cooperation capacity
Strengthen and qualify the management of confiscated assets by intervening
both on the quality and availability of information available to the public, and on
the strengthening of technical skillsand awareness of the operators
16 priority actions & 3 result indicators
RIS1.1: Percentage of assets transferred to state or local authority within two years from the definitive
confiscation on the total of assets transferred to the state or territorial bodies property during the year
RIS1.2: Percentage of destined goods, returned to the community and monitored with respect to the
total destined goods
RIS1.3: Total annual number of visits (sessions) and downloads of data on confiscated assets published
on dedicated institutional sites
First results between 8 and 15 months
from the National Strategy approval

12. The National Strategy: Specific Objective 1

13. The National Strategy: Specific Objective 2
Infrastructures
Use organized crime confiscated properties (real estate) to enhance and qualify
public services for citizens and local communities and to create new jobs
12 priority actions & 1 result indicator
RIS2.1: Percentage of buildings destined, returned to the community and monitored net of demolitions
and re-naturalizations compared to the total of the destined assets
The actions broaden and extend enhancement interventions already
underway

14. The National Strategy: Specific Objective 2

15. The National Strategy: Specific Objective 3
Companies
Support the transition to legality of organized crime confiscated companies thus
safeguarding the employment of workers, through the use of an integrated
system of services and incentives
5 priority actions & 1 result indicator
RIS3.1: Percentage of companies destined and not dismissed, which maintain or exceed the original
employment levels four years after the seizure compared to the total number of companies destined
First results between 12 and 30 months
from the National Strategy approval

16. The National Strategy: Specific Objective 3

17. Examples of operative instruments
4th National Action Plan (Open Government Partnership)
Action aimed at overcoming the lack of public information on confiscated assets (open data) and
to foster its development connected with data on public investments for reuse
Plan for the recovery and reuse of exemplary confiscated assets
2014-2020 national cohesion resources to finance investments for the reuse of confiscated
properties relevant in terms of size, symbolic value, criminal history, sustainability and development
prospects, that require a supra-local direction and commitment for preserving their value
National Operational Programme on Legality
EU cohesion resources to finance specific actions for the reuse of confiscated assets

18. Projects implemented in 2007-2013 and 2014-2020
2014-2020 programming cycle most funding
• Repurposing for tourism and lodging of a confiscated complex in Punta Pellaro, a district in Reggio
Calabria, with a public cost of roughly €3 million
- Recovery of a property in Catania, for a cost of nearly €2 million within the scope of the ERDF ESF National
Operational Programme for metropolitan areas;
- Creation of a centre for abused women in the town of Casalnuovo (NA);
- Creation of a youth centre (with a juvenile detention area, a small football pitch and play area, and a shelter for
children experiencing family difficulties) in the town of Casal di Principe (CE).
415 PROJECTS
This collection of projects published on
the OpenCoesione website is updated
every two months and can be found
using the Focus search filter
https://opencoesione.gov.it/en/opendat
a/#!approfondimenti_section
TOTAL
PUBLIC
COST =
almost
€300 million

19. The Italian open government strategy on Cohesion Policy for:
• a more efficient and effective use of resources and destination of funds consistent
with people’s needs
• improve decision making and policy design, also by increasing access to and quality
of information
• increasing involvement of stakeholders and civic partners
• broadening the opportunities for analyses and evaluations on relevant policy issues
• encouraging the creation of new tools and services based on the availability of open
data

21. OPEN DATA, DATA JOURNALISM AND CIVIC MONITORING
ON COHESION POLICY FOR EUROPEAN STUDENTS
(since 2013)

22. Thank you for the attention!
sim.deluca@governo.it