Italy

LAW 241 of 7 August 1990 New rules concerning the administrative procedure and the access to administrative documents - Art. 3bis Use of telematics

The E-Government Action Plan, 23 June 2000

MINISTER FOR TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION, ORDER of 21 December 2001 Guidelines concerning the computerisation of government

PRIME MINISTER ORDER of the of 30 May 2002 Awareness and use of the ".gov.it" Internet domain and effective interaction between the national "italia.gov.it" portal and government departments and their local offices

PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE - DEPARTMENT FOR INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGIES ORDER of 9 December 2002 Transparency of administrative action and electronic management of document flows

PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE - DEPARTMENT FOR INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGIES ORDER of 20 December 2002 Guidelines concerning the computerisation of government

PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE - DEPARTMENT FOR INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGIES ORDER of 18 December 2003 Guidelines concerning the computerisation of government for 2004

PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE - DEPARTMENT FOR INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGIES ORDER of 4 January 2005 Guidelines concerning the computerisation of government

LEGISLATIVE DECREE 42 of 28 February 2005 Public system of connectivity and public administration international network

LEGISLATIVE DECREE 82 of 7 March 2005 Digital administration code

LEGISLATIVE DECREE 39 of 12 February 1993 Measures concerning the automated information systems of government departments, pursuant to Article 2, paragraph 1 mm) of Law 421 of 23 October 1992

LEGISLATIVE DECREE 303 of 30 July 1999 Organisation of the Prime Minister's Office pursuant to Article 1 of Law 137 of 6 July 2002. Article 10, paragraphs 6-ter-6-sexies. Transfers the duties, functions and resources of the Technical Assistance Centre for users of the Government Network to the Centre for IT in Government

PRIME MINISTER'S DECREE of 27 September 2001 Establishment of the Department for Innovation and Technologies

PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE - DEPARTMENT FOR INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGIES DECREE of 18 December 2001 Internal organisation of the Department for Innovation and Technologies

LAW 3 of 16 January 2003 Regulatory provisions governing the public administration Article 27 charges the Minister for Innovation and Technologies with supporting projects characterised by innovation, strategic importance and pre-eminent national interest through the coordination and evaluation of programmes, projects and actions plans for the development of information systems prepared by government departments. A special focus is to be placed on intersectoral projects and financing projects of the Department for Innovation and Technologies with the same features

LEGISLATIVE DECREE 196 of 30 June 2003 Personal Data Protection Code Article 176, paragraphs 3-6: Italian Authority for Information Technology in the Public Administration is transformed into the Centre for IT in Government

LAW 488 of 23 December 1999 Measures concerning the preparation of the annual budget and budget projections of the State (Finance Law for 2000), Articles 24, 25, 26 and 27 establish new procedures for the procurement of goods and services by government departments and introduce a convention system for aggregated procurement, subsequently used by Consip S.p.A.

LAW 340 of 24 November 2000 Measures concerning deregulation and simplification of administrative procedures "Simplification Law of 1999". Article 24: requirement for the online publication of calls for tenders for the procurement of goods and services

LAW 388 of 23 December 2000 Measures concerning the preparation of the annual budget and budget projections of the State (Finance Law for 2001), Articles 59, 60, 61 and 62 define the procurement procedures for decentralised expenditure centres. Charges Consip S.p.A. with analysing the markets and products purchased by government and establishes the criteria governing expenditure for electricity and postal services and the cost of fuels

DECREE OF THE MINISTER OF THE TREASURY of 2 May 2001 Charges Consip S.p.A. with implementing the provisions of Law 388/2000; Consip S.p.A. becomes the contract awarding body

PRESIDENTIAL DECREE 101 of 4 April 2002 Regulations establishing criteria and procedures for electronic procurement of goods and services by government departments.

MINISTER FOR INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGIES The Government's guidelines for the development of the Information Society, June 2002

RESEARCH CENTRE OF THE MINISTER FOR INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGIES Report on Innovation and Digital Technologies in Italy, 9 October 2003

DEPARTMENT FOR INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGIES Information Society Observatory, May 2004 Second edition of the report drafted in collaboration with Federcomin

DEPARTMENT FOR INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGIES Information Society Observatory. Evolution of innovation in Italy in line with the eEurope 2005 parameters, November 2004 Prepared by the Federcomin Research Department

PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Circular no. 3 of 13 March 2001 Guidelines for the organisation, usability and accessibility of government websites

AUTHORITY FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION CIRCULAR no. 32 of 6 September 2001 Criteria and instruments to improve access for the disabled to websites and IT applications

COMMISSIONE INTERMINISTERIALE SULLO SVILUPPO E L’IMPIEGO DELLE TECNOLOGIE DELL’INFORMAZIONE PER LE CATEGORIE DEBOLI White paper on Accessibility, 5 March 2003

LAW 4 of 9 January 2004 Measures to facilitate access for the disabled to IT instruments

The 2004 Report Drafted by the Standing Interministerial Committee for the use of ICT by vulnerable or disadvantaged groups, November 2004

PRESIDENTIAL DECREE 75 of 1 March 2005 Enactment rules of Law 4 of 9 January 2004 on access of disable persons to electronic instruments

PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE - DEPARTMENT FOR INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGIES DECREE 8 July 2005 Technical requirements for access to electronic instruments

LEGISLATIVE DECREE 70 of 9 April 2003 Transposition of Directive 2000/31/EC on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market

PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE ORDER of 6 August 2004 Training programmes for e-learning techniques in government. An annex to the Order contains the "Guidelines for training programmes in e-learning techniques in government".

COMITATO TECNICO NAZIONALE SULLA SICUREZZA INFORMATICA E DELLE TELECOMUNICAZIONI NELLE PUBBLICHE AMMINISTRAZIONI Proposals on strategies for ICT security in Public Administration, March 2004

Legislative Decree 30th June 2003, n. 196,LEGISLATIVE DECREE 196 of 30 June 2003 Personal Data Protection Code - Part I

Legislative Decree 30th June 2003, n. 196,LEGISLATIVE DECREE 196 of 30 June 2003 Personal Data Protection Code - Part II

Legislative Decree 30th June 2003, n. 196,LEGISLATIVE DECREE 196 of 30 June 2003 Personal Data Protection Code - Part III

PRESIDENTIAL DECREE 137 of 7 April 2003 Regulation containing coordination provisions concerning electronic signatures pursuant to Article 13 of Legislative Decree 10 of 23 January 2002

PRIME MINISTER'S DECREE of 13 January 2004. Technical rules for the production, transmission, conservation, duplication, reproduction and validation, including temporal validation, of digital documents

LAW 90 of 8 April 2004 Regulations concerning the election of members of the European Parliament and other provisions regarding elections to be held in 2004 Article 8 establishes that voting results for the European elections of 2004 shall be tallied on an experimental basis using computerised systems