Service contracts: the process of adapting to the ARERA standard model

During 2024, waste management operators and contracting bodies had to adapt their waste sector service contracts to the ARERA standard model referred to in resolution 385/2023/R/rif. The Authority's provision responded to the need to define a uniform contractual framework overcoming existing divergences. This aim was pursued by regulating the relationships between contracting bodies and waste management operators, orienting and promoting convergence towards a more efficient organizational structures characterized by a better quality of service. Coordination between regulatory and contractual discipline represents an essential element to guarantee the industrial development of the sector from both point of view:  the quality of the service provided to users, and the economic-financial balance of management (and, therefore, of market competition).
The conference aims to bring together different stakeholders to analyse, from an institutional and an industrial perspective, the critical issues faced in the process of implementing the ARERA standard model.

Session Chair

Alessandro Cecchi, Director of Regulatory Affairs Iren SpA

Programma

10.30 Introduction and coordination by the Chairman    
Alessandro Cecchi, Director of Regulatory Affairs Iren SpA

10.45 Governance, management, regulation: snapshots of the national situation
Francesca Mazzarella, Director of Utilitatis

11.00 Evaluations on the implementation process of the ARERA standard model
Samanta Meli, Regulation Area of Utilitalia
Luca Tosto, Assoambiente
Francesco Iacotucci, IFEL Foundation consultant for regulation on waste (TBC)
Leonardo Raito, President of ANEA (National Association of Area Government Bodies for Water and Waste) (TBC)

11.45 Panel discussion: stakeholders' point of view on the adaptation of existing contracts to the new regulatory framework
Modera: Luca Mariotto, Director of Environment Office of Utilitalia

• Bruno Manzi, President of AMA Roma
• Paolo Carta, Director of Regulatory and Legal Affairs Alia S.p.A
• Domenico Ruggiero, Sole Director ASIA Napoli
• Mariagrazia Interdonato, President of MessinaServizi Bene Comune

12.45 Conclusions
Lorenzo Bardelli, Director of Environment Division of Italian Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks and Environment