The Members

The National Anti-Corruption Authority (ANAC) was created with the aim of implementing article 6 of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). ANAC is an independent authority. ANAC’s board is comprised of five members appointed with a non-renewable mandate of six years. The proposed nominations are approved by the Council of Ministers and the candidates are appointed by the President of the Republic. ANAC has a staff of 350 employees.

Law 190 of 2012 gave ANAC the responsibility :

• To draw up a preventive strategy against corruption;
• To supervise the anticorruption strategy of each public entity (through the adoption of Three Year Plans for integrity and transparency),
• To guarantee transparency in public administrations
• To guarantee the integrity of civil servants, and to disseminate a culture of integrity and legality.

ANAC pursues its goals through regulatory and supervisory activities, has an advisory function and some inspection and sanctioning powers.

These tasks are accompanied by an important monitoring activity through the collection of data on public tenders. For this purpose ANAC has set up a National Database on Public Contracts (BDNCP).

BDNCP is a database that collects, integrates and reconciles data concerning public contracts transmitted by contracting authorities. The system is open to interoperability, under application cooperation, both with internal systems of the Authority, and with similar systems of other administrations.

BDNCP, which incorporates all the information contained in existing databases, including at the territorial level, in order to ensure unified accessibility, transparency, publicity and traceability of the whole procurement process. ANAC establishes the modalities for the holders of such databases, subject to signatures of interoperability protocols, to ensure the confluence of the data. This database is available to the public through our institutional website, in order to increase the transparency of the market.

In addition, ANAC has the duty to report to the Italian Parliament on its activities and exercises an advocacy function by submitting proposals for new legislation or modifications of existing laws to both Parliament and the Government.