Government ministries have
already shed over 700 official vehicles under a 2014 cabinet
decree aiming to further reduce the public administration's
executive fleet of cars, undersecretary Angelo Rughetti said
Wednesday.
Under the decree, no ministry, police or military corps,
governmental agency or other central administrative body can
have more than five official cars, with the exact number
depending on the number of employees.
The only exception applies to the premier and cabinet
ministers, who can have access to an executive vehicle for their
"exclusive" use and only while in cabinet.
The cull, which comes on top of an earlier purge starting
in 2012 when the central public administration counted some
8,619 so-called 'auto blu' (blue cars), is due to be completed
by the end of the year.
The provisions, part of efforts to create a leaner state
apparatus, are also to be extended to local and regional
administrations in due course.
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