Article 47. Superior Council of Public Works.

1. The Superior Council of Public Works is the highest technical consultative body of the State; operates with independence of judgment and evaluation and is endowed with full functional and organizational autonomy. 2. The Superior Council of Public Works is chaired by the President and is made up of the General Assembly, four Sections, the General Secretariat, the Technical Service central and by the Observatory of the technical consultative college. 3. The Superior Council of Public Works, within the scope of the tasks attributed to the State and in compliance with the prerogatives of the regions, autonomous provinces, provinces, metropolitan cities and municipalities, exercises consultative functions and expresses obligatory opinions exclusively on technical and economic feasibility projects falling within the competence of the state, of state concessionaires and on other works financed for at least 50 percent by the state and optional opinions on the feasibility documents of project alternatives included in the multi-year documents of planning of the competent ministries. The opinions referred to in the first period are given if the overall cost of the work, as deriving from the economic framework, is greater than 200 million euros, in the case of linear infrastructures, or 50 million euros, in other cases. The technical-administrative committees at the interregional authorities for public works express mandatory opinions exclusively on the technical-economic feasibility projects of works under state responsibility, of state concessionaires and of other works financed for at least 50 percent by the state if the overall cost of the the work, as deriving from the economic framework, is greater than 25 million euros and less than 200 million euros, in the case of linear infrastructures, or is greater than 25 million euros and less than 50 million euros, in other cases. The opinion on the technical-economic feasibility projects of works under the responsibility of the state, state concessionaires and other works financed for at least 50 percent by the state is not mandatory if the overall cost of the work, as deriving from the economic framework, is less than 25 million euros. 4. The further responsibilities, the organization of the Superior Council of Public Works, the operating rules, as well as the further attributions are established and regulated in Annex I.11. Upon first application of the code, Annex I.11 is repealed from the date of entry into force of a corresponding regulation adopted pursuant to article 17, paragraph 3, of law no. 23 August 1988. 400, with decree of the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, having consulted the Superior Council of Public Works, which replaces it entirely also as an annex to the code. 5. The Superior Council of Public Works expresses its opinion within forty-five days of the transmission of the project. After this deadline, the opinion is considered to be rendered in a favorable sense. EFFECTIVE FROM: 1 July 2023