The Italian Chambers Network and its activity within the EU

Dott. Marco Bonfante
Bruxelles
More than 2000
consortia/companies
with public/private sector
104
64
Arbitration
Chambers
Chambers of
conciliation
27
Chemical-product
Laboratories
50 Commodity
5 Depositories
Exchanges
127
105 Chambers of Commerce,
Infocamere
Special Agencies
150
Industry, Craft and Agriculture
Local branches
Ecocerved
Tecno Holding
Tecnocamere
Jobcamere
19
Regional Unions
75
Italian Chambers
of Commerce
Abroad
9 Foreign
Trade Centres
32
EEN local points
Assocamerestero
ITF Filiera Moda
Tecnoborsa
Agroqualità
ICOutsourcing
Assonautica
33 Italian-Foreign
Assicor
Chambers of
Commerce
BMTI
Brussels
Office
Isnart
Indis
Unioncamere
Union of Italian Chambers of Commerce
Guglielmo
Tagliacarne
Institute
Universitas
Mercatorum
Mondimpresa
Dintec
Retecamere
Uniontrasporti
Tourism 5%
Agriculture 10,1%
Trade Unions 3,7%
Craft 16,7%
Commerce 17,4%
Consumers 3,8%
Industry 16,7%
Transports 5,5%
Services 10,8%
Cooperatives 3,9%
Credit 3,4%
Other 2,9%
2014: a Proposal of Reform
Improving efficiency through:
Modification of the territorial competence of CCIs
Consolidation of functions
A work in progress on…
Innovation
Vocational Education and Training
Legality
Bergamo, Brescia, Como,
Cremona, Lecco, Lodi,
Mantova, Monza/Brianza
Pavia, Sondrio, Varese
Bolzano,Trento
Gorizia, Pordenone
Trieste, Udine
Belluno, Padova, Treviso
Venezia, Verona, Vicenza
Alessandria, Asti,
Biella, Cuneo,
Novara, Vercelli
Bologna, Ferrara, Forlì-Cesena
Modena, Parma, Piacenza,
Ravenna, Reggio Emilia, Rimini
Genova, Imperia,
La Spezia, Savona
Perugia, Terni
Ancona, Ascoli Piceno
Fermo, Macerata, Pesaro
Arezzo, Firenze, Grosseto,
Livorno, Lucca, Massa,
Carrara, Pistoia, Prato, Siena
Chieti, L'Aquila
Pescara , Teramo
Frosinone, Rieti
Viterbo, Latina
Campobasso, Isernia
Cagliari, Nuoro
Oristano, Sassari
Bari, Brindisi
Foggia, Lecce,
Taranto
Avellino, Benevento,
Caserta,Napoli,Salerno
Matera, Potenza
Agrigento,Caltanissetta,
Catania, Messina
Palermo, Siracusa, Trapani
Catanzaro, Cosenza
Crotone,Reggio Calabria
95
Chambers
members
of the
network
Issue of certificates
 Information on: laws and regulations, international agreements, certificates, visas and other documents;
 Issues of certificates/documents.
First orientation
 Information and first assistance: foreign markets, international standards, analysis of the propensity to
export.
Added-value information
Tailor-made assistance
Legal formalities for setting up an import-export company, how to approach international markets, market
potential analysis, EU and national funding
in full collaboration and division of tasks with….
Regional antennas, Embassies, CCIs abroad and ICE offices.
Launch of the info point at territorial level
Completion of the technological platform as a tool to support
the activities of the info points
Identification of a pool of experts to advise on more
complicated issues
Certification of the standard model of services
Full training program for info-desk responsible
Development of communication tools and programs
 Pilot project 2011/2012: some figures
 30 Chambers of Commerce with strong cooperation of the Chambers
abroad network
 60 Schools (2 per CCI)
 1.200 students of the last class of technical or professional institutes and high
schools:
• 510 interns in companies abroad for 21 days
• 690 interns in Italian companies having an international vocation for 21
days
 180 tutors
 12 months
 Investment: 1.800.000 EUR
average cost:
per student = 1.500 EUR
per interniship in Italy 870 EUR
per internship abroad 2.340 EUR
2013: enhanced cooperation with the Ministry of Welfare
In this context:
Memorandum of Understanding
Signed in November 2012 between Unioncamere and DIHK it aims at:
encouraging“transnational mobility by internship and
work experience exchange programs, and the
validation, certification and mutual recognition of
formal, non formal and informal skills”
In the last three years the Chambers of Commerce’s commitment on
fighting crime has intensified and has become a systemic action through
the following measures:

at national level, within protocols operating between Unioncamere and
the central government

at territorial level, through projects and partnerships at provincial level
coordinated by individual Chambers of Commerce
Made up of the Chairmen of the Chambers of Commerce for Industry,
Agriculture and Handicraft (IT. CCIAA) and of the Delegates of the Interior
Ministry, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Economic Development, National Agency
for Confiscated Property, Italian Bankers’ Association (IT. ABI).
The Committee is promoting, in each Chamber of Commerce, the setting up of:
 ‘Local Committees for legality’, supported by the Chambers and composed of
the Prefects, Judicial Authorities and Trade Associations – they act as a “place”
for benchmmarking and planning of concrete projects
‘Legality Help-desks’, aimed at preventing, monitoring and assisting all those
individuals/companies run into debts, experiencing a serious financial crisis or,
more generally, those handling illegal cases.

For 2012-13 a devoted funding line of the “Fondo di perequazione di Unioncamere”
(the special development/solidarity fund managed by Uniocamere which yearly
promote priority territorial projects run by Chambers of Commerce) is devoted to
activate or to strengthen the “Legality Help-desks” to support the re-use of
confiscated assets and to assist companies threatened by organised crime.
Main activities:
 First assistance help desk (listening to, preliminary guidance)
 Information campaigns for local communities
 Training activities for entrepreneurs and unemployed young people
 Feasibility plans to support start-up and/or reinforcement of the business
 Definition of agreements to create “local services networks for legality” (Employers
associations, local institutions, non-profit organisations, voluntary associations)
 Activation of networks/cooperation with professionals who are willing to support
companies and institutions (attorneys, financial experts, business consultants,
psychologists, …)
Art. 1 – Company Name
The name of the association is: « Staff
Services in Brussels ».
Art. 3 – Purpose of the association
The association aims to organize in a stable manner the
presence of its members and adherents in Brussels, in order to
enable them to maintain effective relations with the EU
institutions.
No profit organization!
KEY WORDS
Trans-nationality
European value
THE ITALIAN INVOLVEMENT
Today it accounts about 14% of the
operations financed
significantly positive in key areas such as
research, energy, environment, training
internationalization:
decentralization as a barrier to participation
Innovation
CHAMBERS INVOLVEMENT
30 CCIAA
35 Special Business
13 Regional Unions
3 Foreign Centers
12 Bodies involved with the Chambers:
31 Enterprise Europe Network members
About fifteen of them partecipate with
continuity
The participation rate is in line with other European Chambers systems:
rewarding factors
→ Enhancement network effect
→ Divulgation of best practices
→ Chance to repeat the operations only if innovative
problematic factors
→ Insufficient Quality Project
→ Real Impact on the territory / business
→ traditional operations - lack of innovation
Information will continue to be considered, in 2014, as the first tool between
members and the chamber system, and is mainly based on two monitoring
tools daily implemented and updated by SSB asbl:
-Spazio Europa, which constantly updates the legislative process of the
measures and other proposals of the European Commission of interest to the
Chambers system (accessible via www.unioncamere.net );
- The database on funding opportunities "Monitoring calls for tender"
published from European programs is available on the site and also contains
information on national calls for proposal related to Structural Funds
www.unioncamere.net
MONITORAGGIO
BANDI
INDICE
aggiornato al:
8-lug-2014
COOPERAZIONE
INTERNAZIONALE
53
APPALTI PUBBLICI DI
SERVIZI
24
POLITICHE REGIONALI
0
CALLS FOR PROPOSALS
42
AGRICOLTURA, PESCA E
AFFARI MARITTIMI
0
FISCALITA' E UNIONE
ECONOMICA-MONETARIA
0
ALIMENTI E SICUREZZA
2
ISTRUZIONE, FORMAZIONE,
CULTURA E GIOVENTU'
3
AMBIENTE
AUDIOVISIVO E MEDIA,
COMUNICAZIONE
CONCORRENZA E
CONSUMATORI
1
IMPRESA E INDUSTRIA
11
RICERCA, SVILUPPO
TECNOLOGICO E
INNOVAZIONE
SANITA' PUBBLICA
2
GIUSTIZIA E AFFARI INTERNI
1
SOCIETA' CIVILE E SPORT
2
0
MERCATO INTERNO
0
SOCIETA'
DELL'INFORMAZIONE
1
ENERGIA
0
OCCUPAZIONE E AFFARI
SOCIALI
5
TRASPORTI E SPAZIO
4
TOTALE
119
N.B. Gli inviti a presentare proposte pubblicati nell'ultima settimana sono evidenziati in rosso.
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MONITORAGGIO LEGISLATIVO EUROPEO
Accesso alla finanza e servizi
finanziari
Formazione e occupazione
Politica industriale
Relazioni esterne
Agricoltura e sviluppo rurale
Giustizia alternativa
Politica marittima e pesca
Responsabilità sociale
d'impresa
Aiuti di Stato e concorrenza
Immigrazione economica
Politica regionale
Reti transeuropee
Ambiente
Imprenditorialità femminile
Proprietà intellettuale ed
industriale
Ricerca e innovazione
Consumatori e sicurezza
alimentare
Mercato interno
Registro delle imprese ed egovernment
Trasporti
Diritto societario
Politica d'impresa
Regolazione del mercato
Turismo
Unione doganale e commercio
extra UE
Energia
Priorità, programmi di Commissione e Presidenza del Consiglio,
Trattato di Lisbona, Strategia Europa 2020
Governance economica e monetaria
Programmazione finanziaria e bilancio UE
Programmi di finanziamento a gestione diretta 2014/2020
NOTA: Le novità della settimana sono evidenziati in rosso sia nell'indice (rispetto ai dossiers) sia nei fogli dedicati (rispetto ai singoli documenti). Le anticipazioni sulle future proposte e
risoluzioni delle Istituzioni europee sono segnalate ponendo in nero i titoli.
►The consultation launched in late 2013 statesthe interest of recipients
for the subjects and the approaches of the two tools. The SSB continues
to provide, upon request of the members, these services created with the
intent to spread the information on a local basis: in this context it is
included the newsletter - info-service /news from particular sectors –
available for Unioncamere Lazio and the daily news service sent to the
Chamber of Commerce of Ancona.
►To all of these tools, an alert service is supported to report news on
European calls to the Chambers of Commerce. In 2014, the network of
Italian Chambers of Commerce can benefit of this service on the basis of
the agreement signed with Assocamerestero.
Activities such as training and updating on European issues, created for managers and
officials from Chambers of Commerce, aim to strengthen, in 2014, the diversification of the
instruments used:
The
test on the webinars initiatives, successfully concluded in 2013 and developed with the
support of the platform of Universitas Mercatorum, demonstrates the growing will of the
managers of the Chambers of Commerce to take part to research online programme s. This
activity will be extended in 2014 to all representatives interested in the themes, and it will
become the main channel of communication between Brussels and the locale basis.
This activity, which will see SSB engaged in the design and definition of the packages offered,
in collaboration with Universitas and Eurochambres for the development of a Master's degree
in European Business which should be soon activated.
The
annual meeting with the leaders of the European Chambers on eu direct
funding programmes confirmed for 2014 in Brussels. For this edition it is also expected
the involvement of members of the Chamber of the Enterprise Europe Network and
the network of Chambers of Italian trade abroad.
The
training "on the job" through the project "Esperienza Europa", saw a very
interesting beginning phase in 2013 with the first group of representatives of
Chambers of Commerce of the Marche Region with turns in Brussels of 3 months. In
2014 this “channel” of collaboration will be re-launched with the chamber system.
The
collaboration established in 2014 by the Presidency of
CLENAD Italia,
representative entity of the Italian National experts within the European institutions,
will be further strengthened. SSB intends to expand the activities of the working
groups in collaboration with the main business assosications in Brussels
(Confcommercio, Confindustria, Confartigianato and CNA).
In 2014 SSB asbl will organize several events in particular during the semester of Italian
Presidency:
After
the first two successful editions of 2008 and 2010, the third edition of the European
Parliament of Enterprises, will be organized in collaboration with Eurochambres in
October 16, 2014, at the headquarters of the European Parliament in Brussel
More than 800 entrepreneurs will take part at the EPE: 28 coming from the European
chamber systems, 73 of them are from Italy.
As in previous editions, for the selection of the Italian SMEs pool the main brokering
actotr will be the members of the National Chambers, instructing the regional unions to
coordinate recruitment activities in the area.
Meeting Unioncamere Presidency office - Leaders of the European
institutions, such as following an initiative that has seen this in Brussels, in June
2011, the Executive Committee of the Union for European institutional
political explore the themes of greatest interest to the the system.

An event aimed to enhance the experience and the competence of the
Italian chamber system during the period of EU Presidency.

Support
to the organisation of the XIV Forum of the Adriatic-Ionian
Chambers of Commerce, in collaboration with the Chamber of Commerce
of Ancona: the 2014 edition will take place in May in Corfu, Greece.
Support
to the organisation of a major event in Rome in collaboration with
Unioncamere Lazio: "Entrepreneurship 2020 International Conference on
entrepreneurial learning - Creativity Knowledge Resources. "
Activities for 2014:
Assistance
to Unioncamere and CAMCOM for the implementation of the Initiative of the
system "Control room for the programming of the Structural Funds 2014-2020," aimed to
involve the Chamber system in the process of negotiation at local level for the definition of
projects to be implemented in next seven years. A task force of experts located in Rome and
Brussels will assist the chamber system in the delicate phase of the negotiations with the
regions.
The pilot phase of the project ELENA that involves collaboration between the Chamber of
Commerce and the “municipal government”, under the Agreement of Mayors, will soon
end. The Chamber of Commerce of Foggia will define the work plan with the European
Investment Bank so to initiate the technical assistance to give to the municipalities for the
implementation and the improvement of the energy efficiency plan.


The cooperation with the Region Marche and the Chamber of Commerce of Ancona, offers
to SMEs from this region a support on European opportunities from Brussels and it will continue in
2014 to strengthen the update service on European issues started in 2013.

The collaboration with Eurochambres and the support of the European Commission aims to
promote the modeling of the European Chambers of some Balkan countries acceding to the
"ATM legality" service, currently being developed by the Italian chamber system.

Assistance to the members of the Enterprise Europe Network that intend to participate in the
new call for the activities starting from 2014 until 2017. The call have been published in January.

SSB asbl participates, on behalf of the chamber system, to the European
consortium for the establishment of the first platform for the promotion of innovation
in the food sector KIC Food. In 2014 the complex development of the work program
will continue and it will be submitted to the Commission later this year. At the same
time there is the intention to candidate the chamber system in the European
consortium for the innovation in manufacturing platform, the so-called KIC Added
Value Manufacturing.
Unioncamere
will be part of the technical committees ASCAME and INSULEUR,
responsible for the definition of planned initiatives within their respective work
programs.

Particular attention will be devoted to strengthen the management of the European
projects in the interest of Eurochambre, due to the creation of the "Local Chamber
Platform" with the aim of coordinate the participation of the local Chambers of
Commerce to the european project management

State aid in agriculture: a summary report, to be submitted to the Commission, will be
prepared and it will concern the application of the new Unioncamere aid regime in
agriculture, adopted in December 2010, also giving assistance to those Chambers which
have been granted aid in this sector, in the preparation of their individual reports.
It will be ensured general assistance in other areas for which it is possible to provide State
aid in particular training, following the introduction of the new "umbrella" regime.
Year
2014 marks the beginning of the new Presidency of Eurochambres:
Richard Weber DIHK. Italy will convey from this year with Michl Ebner,the
Vice President, who was appointed in Istanbul during the Eurochambres
Assembly in October.
SSB
will continue to assist the Italian representatives and participate in 10
thematic working groups, that from 2014 will change their structure and
organization among a greater commitment to the national delegations.
The
collaboration with the French, German, Austrian and Spanish systems
will be intensified as well as the coordination with the Italian associative
systems in Brussels (in particular Confcommercio, Confindustria, CNA and
Confartigianato) to best coordinate the positions in Eurochambres with those
of the Italian system
The
relation between other European Chambers systems of public law
will remain a priority for 2014. The cooperation will be intensified among
issues such as lobby actions and European project management, and
also with the participation of SSB to the many working groups of the 13
national systems.
The
increasing awareness of the Italian Chambers of
Commerce on programs and activities of the European network
is at the core of the Vice-President of Eurochambres, Ebner, and
this will focus on the activity of SSB in 2014.
•Previous Intelligent Energy Europe: 2 projects on
energy efficiency
•Mentoring system on Women Entrepreneurship
•Under the new Competitiveness Programme for
SMEs (COSME) call on sustainable tourism

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