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Regulations

The regulations governing the general aspects of these operations include:

- Law n. 196 of December 31st 2009 (law of accounting and public finance), art. 47 (Amendments to the rules regulating the Treasury accounts for liquidity management), published on the ordinary supplement of Italian Republic Official Gazette n. 245/L as of December 31st 2009.

- "Agreement for the management of the Treasury account for treasury purposes at the Bank of Italy and other equivalents", stipulated between Bank of Italy and the Ministry of the Economy and Finance on March 22nd 2011.

- the decree of the Italian Ministry of the Economy and Finance as of October 25th 2011 governing "financial transactions to bear on the Treasury availability account for treasury purposes and other equivalents and for the selection of eligible counterparties taking part in the respective operations", published on the Italian Republic Official Gazette n. 254 as of October 31st 2011.

- the decree of the Italian Ministry of the Economy and Finance as of November 28th 2011 spelling out the "directives for financial transactions borne by the Treasury's availability account for treasury purposes and other equivalents", published on the Italian Republic Official Gazette n. 279 as of November 30th 2011.

- "Agreement between the Bank of Italy and counterparties eligible to participate in operations on behalf of the Treasury".

• Agreement between the Bank of Italy and counterparties admitted to the operations on behalf of the Treasury (optes) 07-03-2012 - pdf 291 kB