Communications Regulatory Authority

AGCOM’s system of controls is defined by the provisions set forth by AGCOM
itself concerning administrative and financial management and organization. Such
regulations provide the presence of two bodies, the Guarantee Committee and the
Internal Control Service, which are in charge of supervising administrative and
accounting fairness and strategic control.
Both bodies carry out their activities in full autonomy and report to AGCOM’s
President and Council. The recent reorganization project of AGCOM, in force from 1 st
February 2006, placed (cf. paragraph 4.1.) the technical-administrative support to the
controlling Committees within the President's Secretariat of AGCOM. In this way,
placing emphasis, on the one hand, on the preferred relations with this important
managing body and, on the other hand, on the strategic value of controls to verify the
attainment of the managerial goals. In this regard, AGCOM decided to introduce
specific auditing duties for the General Secretariat, in order to promote an integrated
internal system for the planning and control activities, without prejudice to controls
carried out by the relevant bodies and, in the end, by the National Audit Office (Corte
dei Conti), which has the control on AGCOM’s report by law.
The Guarantee Committee is in charge of guaranteeing the accuracy of the
accounting and administrative management of AGCOM and of supervising the
compliance with the relevant laws and regulations, as well as of auditing the periodical
reports and the annual balance sheet (cf. paragraph 4.4.).
By regulation amendment, adopted with its resolution no. 374/05/CONS,
AGCOM deemed as appropriate to strengthen the supervisory role of the Guarantee
Committee, by introducing the issuance of relevant opinion also on the budget structure
in addition to that on the balance sheet to be approved by AGCOM’s Council. During
2005, even if the term of office of the previous Authority’s Council expired, to which
also that of the members of the Committee itself is directly connected, the Committee
carried out its activity of control, deemed as appropriate to prepare its report on the
financial statement for the benefit of the new Council.
The Guarantee Committee - set up with no. 713/00/CONS, in compliance with
article 42 of the administrative and accounting management regulations - was reestablished
with resolution no. 375/05/CONS, by the new Authority’s Council on 16
September 2005. AGCOM’s Council, considering the high institutional profile held,
the well-known independence and moral reliability of its members, decided to renew in
the office, as President and Member respectively, Francesco Sernia and Marcello
Taddeucci, and recognizing her professionalism, independence and reliability to appoint
for the first time, Germana Panzironi, to replace the resigning Luigi Fiorentino.
The Internal Control Service was reinstalled with resolution no. 165/06/CONS,
since its previous term of office expired in January 2006.
The establishment of such Service complies with article 25 of the co-ordinated
text of the structure and functioning regulation in force. This Service is entrusted with
the “the task of verifying, by comparative audits of costs and returns, both the
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