Italy

Abstract

Analysing the introduction of the Italian white certificates scheme faces several barriers because of language problems, a general lack of documented material, and a lack of transparency in the decision-making process. Many of the available experts either were not following agenda setting or were not able to reconstruct the decision-making process in detail, especially regarding decision making where the relevant ministry is involved. Nevertheless, thanks especially to the interviews as a whole, a picture of the rationales behind implementing the WCI in Italy can be reconstructed. This chapter draws further on written material such as presentations at conferences but also primary and secondary legislation. Fur-ther, press statements by policy architects are taken into account in analyses of the political process that led to agenda setting and design choices over time³¹⁵