Communications Regulatory Authority

esolution by each Authority, in observance of the ceilings provided by law, paid
directly to AGCOM itself.” Such provision, in the part in which identifies the source of
financing of AGCOM in the “market of competence”, raises serious doubts about its
compliance with principles specified by the Community law-maker in article 3 and
above all in whereas no. 11 of the directive 2002/21/EC, where it is provided that,
Member States are to guarantee to national regulatory authorities all the necessary
resources, not only in terms of staffing and expertise, but also as to financial means for
the performance of their tasks.
In the aforementioned article 1 of the so-called 2006 finance act, the subsequent
paragraph 66 provides also that: “during its first enforcement, for the year 2006, the
amount of the contribution to be paid by subjects working in communications sectors as
specified in article 2, paragraph 38, clause b), of law no. 481 of 14 November 1995 is
set at 1.5 per thousand of the revenues resulting in the last balance sheet approved prior
to the date in which this law came into force.”
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