PUBLIC SECTO IN ITALY World Bank Group公共部门在意大利，世界银行集团.pptVIP

Banca dItalia - Treasury Liaison Department INTRODUCING PUBLIC PAYMENTS IN THE NATIONAL PAYMENT SYSTEM 1. General concepts and references to cross-country comparisons 2. The Italian experience Public payments Public individuals corporations Public Administrations central government local bodies (regions, municipalities, provinces) social security institutions A proxy of public payments in some countries Some peculiarities of public payments - Legal framework surrounding public payments may differ from that applied to private sector payments (due to administrative controls on expenditure procedures) - Structure and efficiency of Public Administration (e.g., level of computerisation) may affect efficiency of public payments Public Administration is a big customer interacting with all sectors of population (households, firms). The evolution of public payments can have significant implications for payment instruments and systems and for payment habits Beneficiaries of public payments also include people not holding a bank account (e.g., pensions, benefits, salaries) Public payments convey information useful for the working out of public accounts Bodies involved in the execution of public payments (*) Trends in Public Payments Traditionally, the use of paper-based procedures and instruments has been dominant but clear tendency towards migration to electronic systems in all sub-processes of government payments Migration to electronic systems under way (*) Persistence of traditional procedures: - use of cash and postal paper-based instruments (Belgium, Japan); - in some countries legislation still requires the use of paper for issuing instructions related to public payments; - in some countries, clearing and settlement of public payments are based on special procedures (e.g., central bank internal procedures) …… promotion of paperless procedures: - legislation requiring the use of electronic procedures for public payments (1996 DCI