Sixteen articles, a construction site open on paper: the draft of the decree Infrastructure 2025 It moves between large works and small strokes of regulatory chisel. From the Bridge on the Strait to aerial rates under public service regime, passing through Procurement code, PNRR And motorway concessionsthe ministry menu led by Matteo Salvini has nothing light. The text, still in the embryonic phase and under the lens of the state accounting of the state, shows an ambitious, but not definitive approach. Waiting for official ink, we see the main chapters of the provision updated to 12 May 2025.
Bridge on the Strait: costs, tenders and guarantees
The new decree dedicates ample space to the bridge over the Strait of Messina, a symbol of the Dicastery. Society Strait of Messina Spain charge of the works, will be included in the Anac list of contracting stations, thus being able to directly manage the tender procedures for contracts and supplies related to the bridge. In addition, the costs of the contracts for the construction of the work can be adequate in the course of work but with a maximum roof of +50%, in line with the limits set by the EU legislation.
Another novelty concerns the guarantees financial for large works (those over 2 billion euros, therefore also the bridge itself). The draft plans to significantly reduce the parameter for compensation in case of resolution: the Minimum threshold of 20% of the value of the work can be lowered up to 3%. In practice, the burden of the guarantees requested from companies is lightened for this strategic project, a choice that aims to facilitate the start of the works containing the financial costs to be paid by the concessionaire.
The squeeze on the subcontracts explained point by point
In the public contracts chapter, the decree intervenes on the recent tight at the subcontract introduced by the new contract code. The rule wanted at the end of 2024 (corrective decree) prohibits the contracting companies to use, for the purposes of their own SOA qualificationthe works performed by subcontractors. According to the Ministry, it is a question of referring the subcontractors to the center of the scene and of putting a brake on the habit of certain general companies to make work shine in their curriculum.
This rule, however, did not like the professionals of the public tenders. The National Association of Building Manufacturers (Ance) believes that not to recognize the subcontracting processes to the main contractors, not even to prove experience, penalizes general companies and their coordination work, reducing the participation of SMEs in the tenders.
In the Infrastructure decree 2025 Therefore, an application clarification on this discipline should appear, to better define its effects on the Soa certifications and ensure a transition ordered to the new regime (for example with guidelines or transitional provisions in the first application phase).
The news on the works financed by the PNRR arriving
The measure also touches some works financed by PNRR. In particular, a draft measure concerns the new railway line High Speed Salerno-Reggio Calabria, inserted among the PNRR projects. Urban redevelopment programs and projects and environmental mitigation related to the realization of the first lot of this line is expected to be programs and projects can be financed up to 2% of the cost of the interventiondrawing on the resources of the economic framework of the work, and in any case for a maximum of 60 million euros. A small share of the work budget can be intended for complementary works in the area, without requesting additional funds outside PNRR.
Motorway concessions and tolls, how the system changes
On the front of motorway concessions Decree 2025 aims to strengthen the role of tariff regulation. TheTransport adjustment authority (art) In the definition of the tolls: it would be led by the current mechanism in which the Ministry approves the proposed rates for case by case, to a system in which the authority adopts directly the tariff model valid for all dealerships. The system becomes unique, with the tolls entrusted to the transport authority and a regulatory system that aims to minimize the room for maneuver behind the scenes.
Another novelty affects the management of New competitions for concessions expiring. To accelerate the start time of the calls, the draft allows the Ministry (MIT) to prepare in “excerpt” mode The list of extraordinary maintenance interventions to be included in the tender specifications, even before the complete economic-financial plan is presented.
This faculty, foreseen transient for the three years following the entry into force of the decree, would allow to ban the new motorway concessions more quickly.
Flight rates roof: who can benefit from it
In the air transport field we intervene on the dear towards peripheral destinations (islands and remote areas). The draft reviews the measure introduced in 2023, confirming the possibility of a Flight rates roof In case of price impinics due to seasonality or extraordinary events, but limiting it to certain categories of passengers.
Not all travelers will enjoy the calm price, but Only some protected categories (For example, residents, students or commuters of the islands, according to criteria to be defined). The measure recalls the European framework on Public service chargesallowing the competent authority to set maximum rates practicable by airlines for these categories when necessary.
