Member since June 13, 2023, Saverio Valentino makes the internal leap and assumes the presidency of the Antitrust Authority. The appointment by the presidents of the Senate and Chamber, Ignazio La Russa and Lorenzo Fontana, marks the beginning of the lawyer from Rome’s second term in the institution that oversees the proper functioning of competition in the markets.
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With the transition that took place in the Chambers, doubts about the possible “promotion” of an already serving member (in this case for over three years) seem to have fallen. Doubts that were also related to the maximum duration of the mandate, which is in any case seven years.
Valentino was nominated by Brothers of Italy as part of the general agreement on appointments that also led to the choice of Guido Stazi as president of Consob, with the approval of Forza Italia. Born in 1971, a lawyer expert in Italian and European competition law, Valentino is the son of the Calabrian criminal lawyer Giuseppe Valentino, a parliamentarian of the National Alliance and the People of Freedom from 2006 to 2013 and undersecretary of Justice in the Berlusconi II and III governments.
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After graduating in law at La Sapienza, Valentino trained with a master’s in European law at the College of Europe in Bruges and a master of laws at the University of Chicago Law School. Then the experience with Directorate-General I of the European Commission, in the unit dealing with multilateral trade policies. Author of various publications on the role and functions of the Antitrust Authority, Valentino will now be called upon to follow up on the activity of the Guarantor, which in recent years has focused significantly on abuse mechanisms in technology markets by large platforms.
Among the immediate tasks is also the publication of the new report to the government and Parliament on the annual competition bill. The delay with which the appointment arrived (the mandate of the predecessor Roberto Rustichelli expired on May 6) risks leading this year to the publication of the report only after the bill reaches the Council of Ministers (a draft, prepared by the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy, is already ready). At that point, the Guarantor’s suggestions would still be useful in view of the parliamentary examination.
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