Communications Regulatory Authority

4.1. GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE AND HUMAN RESOURCES
As provided for by law no. 249 of 31 July 1997, the President, the Commission for
infrastructures and networks, the Commission for services and products and the Council
are AGCOM’s governing bodies.
The Commissions are collegial bodies composed of the President and four
Commissioners, whereas the Council is composed of the President and all
Commissioners. The collegial bodies’ entire membership has been replaced following
the expiry of the previous term of office.
AGCOM’s President, Corrado Calabrò, was appointed by Italian President’s decree of 9
May 2005, as adopted upon proposal of the Deputy Prime Minister in agreement with
the Minister of Communications, upon advice of the relevant parliamentary committees,
issued under article 2 of law no. 481 of 14 November 1995 setting forth regulations
governing competition and public utilities and establishing public utility regulatory
authorities.
The Senate of the Republic and the Chamber of Deputy elect 4 Commissioners each. On
16 March 2005 the Senate’s assembly elected Commissioners Giancarlo Innocenzi and
Michele Lauria to the Commission for Services and Products, and Commissioners
Stefano Mannoni and Roberto Napoli to the Commission for Infrastructures and
Networks. On 16 March and on 5 May 2005 the Chamber of Deputies elected
Commissioners Gianluigi Magri and Sebastiano Sortino to the Commission for Services
and Products, and Commissioners Enzo Savarese and Nicola D’Angelo to the
Commission for Infrastructures and Networks.
AGCOM’s organizational structure was revised at the end of 2005. As announced by
the President Corrado Calabrò, in his introductory speech of the Annual Report to
Parliament last year, the effort of the new Council - which took office in Naples on 16
May 2005 - was to overcome the “weakness of the structure” which has to fulfil
overwhelming supervisory tasks in the enforcement of the regulatory framework passed
at EU level.
Therefore, after a first intervention aimed at adjusting the staff according to flexibility
criteria, the Council introduced a new organizational structure based on guiding
principles with a view to:
• Reduce AGCOM’s intervention times through a more effective action;
• Combine effectiveness with more rational resource allocation as well as a
significant cutting of operating costs;
• Regenerate the internal information circuit, by means of a more accurate and
computerized management of flows for the benefit of decision-making bodies,
with a noticeable advantage on the external image of AGCOM as a whole.
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