San Marino. ANIS: “Reforms still overdue, accelerating. Important results achieved thanks to the action of our Association “
The ANIS General Assembly took place this morning in the presence of numerous associates at its headquarters in Piazzetta Bramante Lazzari.
“After having fulfilled the statutory obligations, with the approval of the 2021 budget and the 2022 budget – reports a print quote – the President Neni Rossini illustrated all the activities carried out in the past year, focusing on some successes that ANIS has achieved both for its members, but also for the whole system.
The first concerns the liberalization of recruitment, obtained precisely at the request of ANIS to allow companies to respond to the renewed demands of the markets, which in the last year have seen a constant recovery.
The second, which involved a long work at the negotiating table – as Secretary General William Vagnini later explained in detail – was the renewal of the Industry contract signed with all three trade unions “.
“An important result”, underlined the President Rossini, “Because it is the result of responsibility on both sides, which made it possible to reach a virtuous compromise. The hope is that this will also happen during the discussion on other issues, starting with the reforms, which have not arrived ”. The reference is to the interventions on pensions, the labor market and IGR, which had to be presented by June. For ANIS, they remain priorities and must be completed as soon as possible, to secure the public finances and the sustainability of the system. All the more so in a phase characterized by strong uncertainty such as the one that companies are facing, photographed by the latest analysis by the ANIS Observatory presented this morning. The dynamics of energy prices, combined with the difficulty in finding raw materials, could in fact lead to a supply crisis, which must be tackled in advance. Also in this case, from the internal confrontation between the Associates, the desire emerged for the now historical lack of investments in infrastructures and plants capable of reducing this dependence on the outside, which today is also proving to be penalizing, to reduce this dependence too. Why San Marino does not have the same resources as other countries, such as those of the European Union. Precisely in this sense, “there is a glimmer” announced President Rossini, “on the progress of the negotiations for the Association Agreement, which has always been considered fundamental for our companies and it is evident that it is becoming so also for the whole system, just think of the management of the pandemic and the subsequent financing projects. The same goes for VAT, on which the government finally appears to be fully willing to insert this system of indirect taxes also in San Marino: we have had assurances that a technical working group will soon be formalized to complete the regulatory part. The hope is that if the Association Agreement is concluded by 2023, the San Marino VAT will have to be ready for it to be a true integration into the single European market ”. The meeting was also an opportunity for Romina Menicucci, Head of the Anis Work Area, to deepen the issues related to the labor market, who, among other things, illustrated how the liberalization of hiring was achieved, the recent reorganization on the subject of employment incentives and the forthcoming discussion with the Labor Secretariat regarding the last step to complete the reform ”.
“The other aspects touched upon during the assembly concerned the new General Town Plan, on which ANIS reiterated a series of priorities regarding economic development, the possibility of new productive settlements and the planning of the most urgent infrastructures, without forgetting investments in plants for the production of electricity or related to the water cycle and some waste. With reference to this last point, given the latest amendments to the San Marino Environmental Code, the vademecum for the correct management of waste was presented to the associates, edited by Dr. Giorgia Pecci (Assoservizi) and sponsored by the Secretariat of State to the Territory.
At the work, the qualified intervention of Eng. Carlo Stagnaro, Director and Studies of the Bruno Leoni Institute, who highlighted the main causes of the increase in energy prices and offered some points on how European countries are moving or will be able to move in the coming months to face a new new crisis , which probably could last for a few years and therefore will require extraordinary and targeted interventions.