The State General Accounting Department is part of the Ministry of Economy and Finance
structure With more than 5 thousand employees in a complex organization, it is divided into a
central unit with headquarters in Rome, comprising Inspectorates Generals, and territorial
offices with units in the main Spending Ministeries (CBOs, at the Ministeries'
headquarters) as well as provincial units (PAOs, territorial officies).
5,286 total number of people employed and on payroll, including employees, managers
and senior officials (in 1997 there were 7,950 people employed in the organizational chart and
6,233 on payroll). About 8% of total staff are senior officials, 55% are women.
11 Inspectorates General
14 Central Budget Offices
103 Provincial Accounts Offices
SUPPORT TO REGULATORY ACTIVITY
Processed opinion requests
692 Acts of Parliament
394 Acts of Council
166 Presidential Decree Schemes
381 Provision Schemes
SUPERVISION AND CONTROL
Provisions examined during supervision of public bodies and
agencies
764 budgets
624 variation acts
750 final balance sheets
502 resolutions of Board of Directors
Proceeding examined during auditing activities
10,422 minutes
1,000 remarks from auditors
118 interventions towards representatives from the Ministry of Economy and Finance
Finance Inspection Services activities
468 administrative inspections and audits
183 violations reported to the National Audit Office (partial data)
4 violations reported to the Attorney's Office
2 violations reported to the "Guardia di Finanza"
State Provincial Accounts Offices'
Activities
Accounting Controls
1,258,284 a priori accounting controls
78,002 follow-up accounting controls
Supervision
319,884 supervision activities in public governments and bodies
47,775 supervision activities concerning revenues and assets
Activities in Central Budget Offices
Controls
1,380,777 apriori controls on administrative acts
74,045 follow-up controls on administrative acts
Opinion and Consulting
5,847 opinions on draft budget variations
464 opinions on deeds requiring counter-signature
Budget Management
4,593 allocation decrees
1,728 budget variation decrees
PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYMENT REGULATIONS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PERSONNEL
COST
Over 3,400,00 employed people involved.
10,00o administrations or bodies involved.
135 billion euro monitored annual expenditure flow
FINANCIAL RELATIONS WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION
1010 operations for acquisition of European Union resources allocated to Italy totalling
4,587 million euros.
28,143 national resource transfers to public and private bodies totalling 4,855 million
euros
14,373 European Community resource transfers to public and private bodies totalling 4,786
million euros
3,000 national monitoring system users; 5,000 monitored projects accounting for over 40
million Euro expenditure.
