EGATO Trentino Consortium

The Province, the Municipalities and the Communities exercise in associated form the functions and activities concerning the integrated management of urban waste, including the collection, transport, recovery and disposal phases. The 'EGATO Trentino Consortium' was created for the associated management of functions and activities concerning waste.

EGATO Trentino is a public body with organisational, administrative and financial autonomy. Its operating rules are set out in the statute, which defines its tasks and working methods. The statute of EGATO is being finalised (August 2025)

The consortium operates according to the rules and objectives of provincial waste planning.

Functions of EGATO

EGATO Trentino performs the following functions

a) organisation and entrusting of the integrated municipal waste management service, including management activities and construction of the necessary plants

b) drafting, adopting and updating the sphere plan, also broken down into sub-areas, which identifies the procedures and methods for achieving the objectives, as well as the objectives themselves, defined in accordance with the reference state and provincial provisions and in line with the provincial planning of urban waste, together with a programme of the necessary interventions. In particular, the ambit plan is aimed at planning the start-up for the treatment of municipal waste, at identifying and building, where missing or lacking, complex technology plants to serve the integrated municipal waste management system according to recycling, recovery and disposal requirements. The area plan also includes a specific investment plan;

c) specification of the demand for service, understood as the identification of the quantity and quality of waste to be sent for recycling, recovery or disposal and, in general, of the overall quality level of the services to be uniformly guaranteed to the users of the territorial ambit

d) adoption of the financial plans, by each sub-area of reference, indicating, in particular, the costs of the service, the resources available, those to be raised, and the revenues deriving from the application of the waste tariff for the period in question. In particular, the financial plans are aimed at guaranteeing the full coverage of the investment and management costs of the service, the latter also including the costs relating to the exercise of the functions falling within their competence;

The organs of EGATO Trentino are the assembly, with its functional articulations, the board of directors, the president and the auditor.

TheAssembly, which is the representative body of the member entities, is made up of nineteen (19) members, i.e. one member expressed by the Council of Mayors of each Community, chosen among the mayors and presidents of the Communities, the mayor of the Municipality of Trento, the mayor of the Municipality of Rovereto, a representative for the municipalities of Aldeno, Garniga and Cimone and the President of the Province, or the provincial councillor responsible for the matter. Should the President of EGATO, appointed in accordance with the following articles, be chosen from outside the members of the Assembly, it shall be composed of twenty (20) members:

The board of directors consists of five members, i.e. the President of EGATO, two members appointed by the Provincial Council, and two members appointed by the Council of Local Self-Governments, one of whom is an expression of the municipality(ies) hosting the closing plant. The Provincial Council and the Council of Local Self-Governments appoint the members of the Board of Directors from among figures who possess adequate administrative, managerial or professional competence in the field of integrated waste management and/or the organisation of local public services, as well as being independent with respect to the service providers.

The members of the board of directors

arch. Andrea Lazzaroni

Dr. Marco Merler

ing. Martina Ferrai

ing. Mauro Groff

Dr. Sara Colaone

If sub-ambits are established, the Assembly of EGATO Trentino is flanked by the territorial assemblies composed of the Presidents of the Communities and five Mayors appointed by the Mayors as representatives of the Municipalities belonging to the sub-ambit.