La riforma delle "regole del gioco" per i servizi pubblici locali al fine di porre "il cittadino-utente" al centro dell'attenzione

The article suggests a series of changes of the “DDL 772-06” regarding the reorganization of the local public utilities subject. The aim is to promote a sector industrial politcs and a regulation of the services of general interest that could be able to raise an effectiveness and efficiency logic of the services, enhancing the autonomy principles of the local bodies, according to the Italian constitution. The main element that should drive the public utilities sector regulation is the centrality of the “citizen-user” with his specific needs of access to the essential services of the territory where he lives and works. The attention to the local peculiarities proposes the need and not just the will to defend the constitutional prerogatives of local bodies autonomy and, at the same time, it widens the forms of diffusion of the rules created to avoid forms of discrimination in the ways local public utilities are trusted. This means to plan a “reform” of the services of public interest based not just on the organization form of the offer but, first of all, on the communities needs.