Grant to local authorities for emergency measures

The service provides grants to local authorities for the carrying out of urgent works following local emergencies. The funding is intended to:

• Safeguarding public safety in built-up areas;
• Restoring normal living conditions by ensuring the safety of: municipal roads, water bodies under its jurisdiction, water networks (aqueducts and sewers) and energy distribution networks

• Exclusions: Works relating to damage not caused by natural disasters or exceptional events (e.g. situations arising from a lack of maintenance or managerial negligence) are excluded.
• Management of infrastructure not owned by the local authority: Where the infrastructure eligible for funding (roads, water bodies, aqueducts, sewerage or energy networks) are not owned by the applicant local authority, but the responsibility for their management rests wholly or partly with it, the authority may act on behalf of the owner local authorities or member consortia only where there is a specific agreement signed between the parties governing their management responsibilities.
• Assets covered by insurance: If the works are covered by insurance, the grant is adjusted so as not to exceed the total expenditure actually incurred. The local authority must indicate the existence of the insurance policy in the application; if the amount of the compensation is not yet known, it must be reported in thefinal financial statement (with the consequent recovery of any excess grant amount)
• Expenditure thresholds: the grant applies only to projects with a total budget of between €10,000 and €800,000
  • Below €10,000: the cost is borne entirely by the municipality;
  • Above €800,000, the project is carried out directly by the Autonomous Province of Trento
• Technical costs ceiling: Technical costs are eligible up to a maximum of 12 per cent of the project cost, which may be increased to 15 per cent for contracts up to €100,000.00 only if the appointment of a safety coordinator is required.
• Prohibition on double funding: The expenditure may not be covered by other grants or public or private funding
• Forfeiture due to failure to notify changes: Failure to give prior notice of changes made during the course of the works may result in the total or partial withdrawal of the grant

Municipalities in the Autonomous Province of Trento where a local emergency has occurred.

• Activation: Should an emergency situation arise within the municipal area that requires the implementation of an urgent intervention, the Municipality shall immediately notify the Risk Prevention Service and the Single Emergency Coordination Centre. At the same time, it draws up and submits the report on the emergency as referred to in Article 53 of Provincial Law No. 26/1993 and requests an on-site inspection by the relevant provincial technician.
• Site inspection: Within 15 days of receiving the report, the Province carries out a joint site inspection with the municipal technical officer.
  The outcome is formally communicated to the municipality in a specific report; if the works are deemed eligible for a grant, the municipality may proceed with the funding application.
• Submission of application: The application for funding must be submitted within 60 days of the date of the emergency report, using the form published on the Province’s official website. It may be submitted in one of the following ways:
  • Pi.Tre interoperability (preferred): for local authorities equipped with this application;
  • Certified email (PEC): to the address serv.prevenzionerischi@pec.provincia.tn.it;
  • Hand-delivery: directly to the relevant office;

• Aggregation of interventions below the threshold: If a single disaster requires several separate interventions within the municipal area, each costing less than €10,000, these are eligible for funding if their combined total is €10,000 or more.
• Inspection delayed due to bad weather (Suspension of deadlines): If weather conditions or the location prevent the Province from carrying out the inspection within 15 days, the visit is postponed (but will in any case be carried out within 6 months). In this case, the deadline for submitting the application is suspended; the Service will notify the local authority when the deadlines will resume.
• Exemption from the deadlines for submitting the survey report/detailed design: If, due to adverse weather conditions and taking into account the location of the works, the local authority is unable to approve the survey report or detailed design within the prescribed time limits:
  • The application must still be submitted within 60 daysof the emergency report (enclosing photographic evidence of the site’s condition and an explanatory report on the reasons for the delay)
  • The Department shall suspend the time limits for the procedure, which shall resume upon submission of the survey report/detailed design and their approval, including technical approval (to be submitted within 6 months of the application , failing which the application will be deemed inadmissible )
• Changes during construction: Any changes (drawn up in accordance with Article 120 of Legislative Decree No. 36/2023) must be notified in advance and agreed with the competent technician from the Risk Prevention and Single Emergency Centre Service.
  In the case of changes resulting in increased expenditure, these require a specific application for additional funding.

The application for funding, drawn up using the appropriate form, must be accompanied by:

• photographic evidence showing the condition of the premises at the time of the incident that led to the emergency, as well as any documentation showing the condition of the premises prior to the incident;
• a copy of the survey report or the approved detailed design for the works;
• a copy of the approval decision, including technical approval, for the survey report or the approved detailed design of the works;
• a declaration regarding the possible deductibility of VAT and the absence of other grants;
• a declaration regarding the existence (and amount, if known) of any insurance policy

• Submission of the application: Within 60 days of the date of the urgent proceedings report.
• Reporting: Within 2 years of the date on which the decision to award the grant was adopted.
• Extensions: Any extensions to the reporting deadlines must be requested well in advance of the deadline.

• Notification of the outcome: Once the preliminary investigation has been completed, the outcome of the procedure is formally notified to the applicant local authority, specifying the details of the decision taken and the official website on which it is published.
• Payment of the grant (Positive outcome): The grant is paid by Cassa del Trentino S.p.A.,in accordance with the procedures laid down in D.G.P. No. 288/2017 and subsequent amendments, subject to the municipality submitting documentation proving that the works have been awarded and completed.
• Documents for the final report: To complete the process, the local authority must submit (within 2 years of the grant being awarded) the following documentation:
  • Approval document: A copy of the municipal decision approving the final accounts, the proper execution (or supply) of the works, and the summary statement of expenditure incurred;
  • Summary statement of total expenditure incurred;
  • Final status of the works and a comparison table between initial and final expenditure (including any variations);
  • Execution of works: Certificate of satisfactory completion (CRE) or, for projects costing less than €40,000, a statement from the Project Manager confirming satisfactory completion (or supply), explicitly stating the dates of handover and completion of works;
  • Structural testing: Certificate of structural testing (if required by the type of work carried out);
  • Funds available: Invoices relating to services carried out within the scope of the funds available, accompanied by a certificate or attestation of satisfactory completion (or supply) signed by the Project Manager;
  • Photographic documentation of the works carried out;
  • Georeferencing (shapefile): File of the works in cases involving the construction or restoration of active/passive defence works or permanent structures.
• Appeal (Negative Outcome): Against a decision to reject the application, the Municipality may lodge:
  • A judicial appeal to the Regional Administrative Court (T.R.G.A.) of Trento, within 60 days of notification/communication or becoming fully aware of the decision (pursuant to Law No. 1034/71, as amended);
  • An extraordinary appeal to the President of the Republic, within 120 days of notification or communication of the decision, or upon becoming fully aware of it (pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 1199/71).