OECD's 2001 review of regulatory reform in Italy. It finds that starting later than many countries, Italy devoted the … changes in favour of transparency, public sector efficiency, and market competition. By 1999, Italy’s privatisation programme … was among the largest in the OECD. Reform of Italy’s regulatory state is a formidable task, but early results, such as …

In recent years Italy has moved towards greater devolution of regulatory powers at regional level, in a European …