In coordinating the new rules with existing codified laws and other sectoral legislation, the draft legislative decree under examination introduces many useful elements of rationalization and solves a number of problems.
I shall offer some considerations in this regard later, after reporting on the steps the Bank of Italy has taken in recent months to apply the law on savings within its sphere of competence. I shall treat questions of corporate governance only in passing and concentrate instead on matters relating more directly to the responsibilities of the Bank of Italy.