The MINISTER of labour and Social Affairs in consultation with the Minister of economy and finance and the Minister of ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT having regard to law no December 23, 1996. 662 laying «rationalization measures of public finance "and in particular article 2, paragraph 100) (a), which provides for the establishment of a guarantee fund at the Mediocredito centrale S.p.a. in order to ensure a partial insurance to loans granted by lenders to small and medium-sized enterprises: having regard to act August 7, 1997, n. 266, containing "urgent measures for the economy, and in particular art. 15, paragraph 2, which provides that the guarantee fund under art. 2, paragraph 100) (a) of law December 23, 1996. # 662, can be granted to banks, financial intermediaries included in the special list under art. 107 of Legislative Decree No 385 1 September 1993, as amended, and finance companies for innovation and development listed all'albo under art. 2, paragraph 3, of law October 5, 1991, n. 317, compared with loans to small and medium-sized enterprises, including leasing and temporary and minority equity investments, capital of small and medium-sized enterprises and that the guarantee extends to that paid by guarantee funds run by consortia of collective guarantee trust under art. 155, paragraph 4, of Legislative Decree No. 385 of 1993 and by the financial intermediaries included in the General list under art. 106 of Legislative Decree; Visto l'art. 15, paragraph 3 of the same law No 266 of 1997, which provides that the criteria and modalities for the granting of the guarantee and to the management of the Fund and any reservations about funding for certain sectors or types of transactions are governed by Decree of the Minister of industry, Commerce and crafts in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury; Having regard to the Decree of the Ministry of industry, Commerce and crafts, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, budget and economic planning dated May 31, 1999, # 248, ' regulation establishing criteria and modalities for the granting of the guarantee and to the management of the guarantee fund for small and medium-sized enterprises '; Having regard to the Decree of the Ministry of productive activities of September 23, 2005 published in the Official Gazette No. 230 of October 3, 2005 and bearing ' Approval of the conditions of admissibility and general provisions for the management of the guarantee fund for small and medium-sized enterprises under art. 2, paragraph 100) (a) of law December 23, 1996, n. 662, following restatement of the characteristics of the interventions of the Fund in question, pursuant to Ministerial Decree of June 20, 2005 '; Having regard to the order of the Minister of economy and Finance of the March 25, 2009, establishing criteria, conditions and modes of operation of a State guarantee of last resort in relation to operations of the guarantee fund under art. 2, paragraph 100) (a) of law December 23, 1996, n. 662; Visto l'art. 2 paragraph 37, of law no 191 of December 23, 2009, which provides that in order to ensure effective support for initiatives to relaunch production and employment protection in the areas with highest rate of use of layoffs, as well as to strengthen the instruments of protection of employment stability, as part of the resources of the guarantee fund as defined in art. 15 August 7, 1997, law No. 266, a quota of 10 million is allocated to the interventions in favour of consortia of trust of the provinces with the highest utilization rate of layoffs and that by Decree of the Minister of labour and Social Affairs, in consultation with the Minister of economy and finance and the Minister of economic development are laid down the rules ' implementation of that subparagraph; Considered that for «consortia of confidi» should be understood even consortia of collective guarantee trust (trust) under art. 13 of Decree-Law No 269 of September 30, 2003; Considering that in order to implement the aforementioned legislative provision it is necessary to identify the provinces with the highest utilization rate of layoffs over a period defined; Considered appropriate to locate that span since January 2008, in which there were the first manifestations of the current economic crisis in terms of usage of the cassa integrazione guadagni, until September 2010, date of official extrapolation of data INPS; Considered appropriate to adopt such beneficiary provinces threshold detection methodology of the reserve, the value equal to or greater than the arithmetic mean of the number of hours authorised for the province during the period of 20,071,538 hours as shown in the annex. In integral part of this Decree;
Decrees: Art. 1 1. Within the resources of the guarantee fund for small and medium-sized enterprises under art. 2, paragraph 100) (a) of the Act December 23, 1996, n. 662, a quota of 10 million is reserved to co-guarantees and counter-guarantees in favour of consortia of confide, as identified in the background, with registered office in the provinces with the highest utilization rate of redundancy in annex sub. B an integral part of this Decree, in relation to financial transactions to firms located in the same province. 2. the reserve referred to in paragraph 1 has validity for three years from the date of entry into force of this Decree and operate in case of shortage of resources available for say co-guarantees and counter. 3. this Decree will be published in the official journal of the Italian Republic.
Rome, June 6, 2011 the Minister of labour and Social Affairs S Minister of economy and finance Tremonti, the Minister for economic development

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