Article 23. National database of public contracts.

1. ANAC is the exclusive owner of the national database of public contracts referred to in article 62-bis of the digital administration code, referred to in legislative decree no. 7 March 2005. 82, enabling the national e-procurement ecosystem, and develops and manages its services. 2. The ANAC identifies with its own provisions the sections into which the database referred to in paragraph 1 and the services connected to it are divided. 3. The national database of public contracts is interoperable with the digital procurement platforms used by the contracting authorities and granting bodies and with the aggregator portal referred to in the legislative decree of 24 April 2014, n. 66, converted, with amendments, by law 23 June 2014, n. 89, for the digitalisation of all phases of the life cycle of public contracts, as well as with the national digital data platform referred to in Article 50-ter of the code referred to in Legislative Decree no. 82 of 2005, with the databases of national interest referred to in article 60 of the code referred to in legislative decree no. 82 of 2005 and with all other platforms and databases of the subjects referred to in Article 2, paragraph 2, of the code referred to in Legislative Decree no. 82 of 2005, involved in the activity relating to the life cycle of public contracts. The subjects referred to in Article 2, paragraph 2, of the code referred to in Legislative Decree no. 82 of 2005, involved in the activity relating to the life cycle of contracts, if not already accredited to the platform referred to in article 50-ter of the aforementioned code, legislative decree no. 82 of 2005, are required to be accredited to the aforementioned platform referred to in article 50-ter of legislative decree no. 82 of 2005, as well as the national database of public contracts, to develop application interfaces and make their databases available, without new or greater burdens on public finances and in compliance with the guidelines of the Agency for Digital Italy ( AGID) on interoperability. 4. The national database of public contracts makes available through interoperability the services and information necessary for carrying out the phases of the entire life cycle of public contracts, also for the purposes of compliance with the provisions of the legislative decree 14 March 2013, n. 33. The same database integrates with the single transparency platform established at the ANAC. 5. With its own provision, the ANAC identifies the information that the contracting authorities and granting bodies are required to transmit to the national contracts database public through the electronic platforms referred to in article 25. The information obligations referred to in the first period also concern direct assignments to in-house companies referred to in article 7, paragraph 2. With its own provision, the ANAC identifies the times within the such as the owners of the platforms and databases referred to in paragraph 3 and article 22, guarantee integration with the services enabling the digital procurement ecosystem. The integration is achieved through the digital services made available by ANAC on the national digital data platform, referred to in Article 50-ter of the code referred to in Legislative Decree no. 82 of 2005, in compliance with the relevant technical rules. 6. ANAC makes available to the regional information systems competent for the territory, as well as to public administrations, the information necessary to carry out institutional tasks, pursuant to articles 50 and 50-ter of the code referred to in Legislative Decree no. 82 of 2005. 7. In cases where information or activities necessary to guarantee the interoperability of the data are omitted, the ANAC reports to the AGID for the exercise of the sanctioning powers referred to in article 18-bis of the code referred to in legislative decree no. 82 of 2005. 8. The omission of requested information, the refusal or the omission of activities necessary to guarantee the interoperability of the databases involved in the life cycle of public contracts constitutes a violation of digital transition obligations punishable pursuant to Article 18-bis of the code referred to in Legislative Decree no. 82 of 2005. 9. In order to reduce the administrative burdens of the implementing entities, the data referred to in this article can be used within the procedures concerning the financing of public investments as a tool for verifying the effective use of resources and procedural progress within the times established by the spending laws. EFFECTIVE FROM: 1 January 2024