The shortcomings of the formula, including the relative weights and definitions of the variables are well known, and in April 2008 the Board of Governors of the Fund decided that the issue requires to be revisited before the formula is used again.
In exercising the prerogatives assigned to them by law, the Italian authorities are closely monitoring each step of the acquisition. Its implications for the subsidiary companies, in terms of governance, organizational arrangements, financial equilibriums and strategic guidelines, must not endanger the safeguarding of objectives of general public interest.