Art. 78. Register of selection boards

1. The mandatory national register of the members of the selection boards for the procedures for tendering public contracts is established at ANAC, which manages and updates it according to criteria identified by appropriate determinations. For the purpose of enrolment in the abovementioned register, the parties concerned must be in possession of compatibility and morality requirements, as well as proven competence and professionalism in the specific sector to which the contract relates, according to the criteria and methods defined by the Authority with appropriate guidelines, assessing the possibility of dividing the Register into homogenous thematic areas to be adopted within one hundred and twenty days of the date of entry into force of this Code. Until the adoption of the legislation on entry in the Register, Article 216, paragraph 12 applies. see Guideline ANAC no. 5: Resolution no. 4 of January 10, 2018, published in the Italian Official Gazette, General Series no. 28 of February 3, 2018 concerning Selection criteria for the tenders’ commissioners and registration of the experts in the national mandatory list of the selection boards’ members.

1-bis. The guidelines referred to in paragraph 1 also govern the modes of operation of the selection boards, providing, as a general rule, public sessions, as well as private sessions for the evaluation of technical tenders and any other specific commitments.