The Region has 40 days to follow up on the sentence pronounced by the TAR last August, to evaluate from scratch the applications received in September 2020 to obtain contributions relating to the organization of public cultural and entertainment events of great tourist interest and to distribute the funds on the basis of a merit-based criterion: not as it was done in October 2020 through the “call at the counter”, that is, by rewarding the fastest.
This is the decision taken yesterday by the Administrative Court in the appeal presented by nine associations that were excluded from funding: a sentence that reaffirms the one already taken five months ago (the so-called Click day was illegitimate) and which requires viale Trento to follow up on the provisions by the judges, as has not happened so far despite a ruling in this sense also by the Council of State last December.
An inertia that could cost the commissioner: the TAR has imposed on the Region to "fully implement" the decision within 40 days, otherwise the assignment will be completed by an "ad acta commissioner" (the prefect of Cagliari or a his delegate) with "full administrative and accounting powers".
Since the opening of the telematic counter, the 750 thousand euros allocated had been granted, in two seconds, to the first 22 requests out of the 164 submitted. Nine excluded with the lawyer Nicola Ibba had appealed and won the case to the TAR five months ago. A system that, even according to the Council of State, did not consider the "merit criteria" and did not appear "respectful" of the same 1955 regional law on the disbursement of contributions. But Viale Trento remained inert and so here is the second appeal. Now the procedure goes back to the merit criterion. Meanwhile, the public administration must also pay 3 thousand euros in legal fees.
Andrea Manunza