Ministry of Economic Development (Italy)

The Ministry of Economic Development ( Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico it., or " mise " ) is one of the ministries of the Italian Government. It has its headquarters in the Palazzo Piacentini in the Via Veneto in Rome. Acting Minister 's Federica Guidi.

Tasks

The " Ministry of Economic Development " was formerly among other things, the "Ministry of Industry and Trade ." It was and is the Ministry of Economy of Italy. There is also the Ministry of Economy and Finance, which, however, despite its name, is primarily a Finance and Economy Ministry is also called only for the management of public investments.

The Ministry of Economic Development is responsible for the manufacturing and processing industry, trade, communication, economic cohesion, competitiveness and innovation. Moreover, it is also responsible for the energy policy and the mining sector.

Organization

The political leadership consists of the ministers and secretaries of state from two to four. The latter are in Italy No officials but politicians. Official head of the ministry which is the highest official is the Secretary-General. Administratively subject to him the head of department ( " Directors-General " ) of the current 15 departments ( " General " ) of the Ministry. One department is affiliated with the Italian Patent Office, another department, the 16 regional offices of the Ministry in Italy.

The division of the Ministry include some scientific advisory boards and institutes. The Ministry oversees the 100 Italian industry and commerce, the operating agency Invitalia settlement, the Italian antitrust and restricted, various other regulatory authorities. The duties of the former foreign trade institutes have recently been taken over by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

History

The history of the Ministry goes back to the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, from which in 1861 the Kingdom of Italy was born.

On December 7, 1847, the new Secretary of State for Public Works, Agriculture and Commerce was set up in Turin. In the train of the revolution of 1848 and the imposed Constitution Charles Albert ( Statuto Albertino ) the Secretaries of State were renamed ministries. On this occasion they told the Secretary of State for Public Works, Agriculture and Commerce in August 1848 in the Ministry of Public Works and the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce. The latter was beaten 1850 and the Department of the Navy, to the Ministry of Marine, agriculture and trade in 1852 was dissolved. These shifts and reversals were wanted above all to keep the interest of the long-time Minister and Prime Minister Camillo Benso di Cavour, the different parts of government affairs despite formal exchange office under his control.

In the train of the unification of Italy under the House of Savoy was born on 5 July 1860, Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Trade. As such it was, apart from a brief interruption 1877-1878, when it was divided into a Department of Agriculture and in a Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor until 22 June 1916. These ministries were in 1923 under Benito Mussolini in the new " Ministry of National Economy ", which was, however, in 1929 disbanded. The area of Industry, Trade and Labour took over in 1926 established " corporation Ministry ". For the latter was built in Rome, Palazzo delle Corporazioni and later named after the architect Marcello Piacentini. After the deposition of Mussolini took it in the summer of 1943 he returned to the designation Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor. 1946, the foreign trade area was hived off into a separate ministry in 1947 transferred responsibility for work on the new Ministry of Labour and Social care. 1966 was renamed to Ministry of Industry, crafts and trade.

One from 1997, initiated by the former center-left government reform of the Italian government bureaucracy ( according to the relevant Minister Franco Bassanini called Bassanini Reform) formed the basis for the merger and reorganization of various ministries in Italy. Then from 1999 to 2001, there was the profound organizational reforms in their train the Ministry of Industry, trade and commerce with the Ministry of Foreign Trade and the Ministry of Communications (formerly Ministry of Postal Services ) was merged and the new "Ministry for productive activities " ( " Commercial Department " ) received. In 2006 it was renamed the " Ministry of Economic Development ", as the new Ministry by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the Department of Economic Development and Cohesion received, without that it would thereby come to a name change with the Economic and Finance. In the following years made ​​several internal rearrangements.