In the period 2020-2023 there was an exponential increase in appeals lodged with the Lazio Regional Administrative Court;
we went from 10,000 in 2020 to 17,000 in the past year, with the consequence that, as of 31 December 2023, 38,400 were still pending.
These are the data offered by President Antonino Savo Amodio in his report for the inauguration of the 2024 judicial year of the TAR of Lazio.
President who underlined that despite the workload, the backlog has been eliminated.
The data is clear: exceeding the threshold, never before reached, of 17,000 appeals;
an even more significant increase when compared with the national figure, which saw a decrease of approximately 2.6% in the total number of appeals submitted.
On the main subjects covered, the 5,098 appeals in school and university matters accounted for approximately 30% of the total;
while 1,622 (9.5% of the total) was the internal volume of exceeding the spending ceiling in the healthcare sector.
During 2023, 20,097 appeals were then resolved (22,166 in 2022);
and in implementation of the extraordinary program for clearing the backlog, there was a reduction in outstanding debts, with an overall percentage reduction of over 71%.
It is clear that to reduce the backlog and prevent further training - said Savo Amodio - we cannot rely on the extraordinary disposal program alone, but we must necessarily think of structural measures suitable for containing the demand for justice in a physiological dimension".
The invitation was to reflect on the critical issues. Alongside the difficulties of public bodies "in taking decisions within their competence, first of all due to the existence of a constantly evolving reference regulatory framework", and in "often having to deal with supranational legislation, intended to prevail over internal incompatible with it", there is the positive note of the new Code of public contracts "which is characterized by greater clarity of the rules that it dictates and by the expected digitalisation of the bidding procedures, thus aiming to improve the efficiency and transparency of the tenders public evidence".
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