Italy

IV. Italian ongoing activities and future commitments

Administrative liability of companies

“The Ministry of Justice has recently set up a working group with the CNPDS (National Centre for Prevention and Social Defence Foundation), Confindustria and Assonime (…) In particular, the working group intends to propose solutions to remedy the following critical aspects of the current legislation:

– lack of legislative recognition about procedural collaboration from companies (e.g. probation as for US DPA and NPA), against the introduction of non-accountability of physical persons (e.g. in tax crimes and crimes against the public administration)” (p. 17)