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STATE GENERAL ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT IN FIGURES

The most significant 2006 figures

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.