Report on Operations and Activities of the Bank of Italy for 2019

In addition to describing the Bank of Italy's various functions, the report contains non-financial data and details of the Bank's social and environmental initiatives.

This year the report ends with a chapter on the Covid-19 emergency, which gives an account of the activities carried out by the Bank, the measures adopted to safeguard the health of its staff and to ensure the continuity of essential services in Italy, together with the extraordinary contributions decided by the Board of Directors and destined for projects to be realized immediately; the data in the chapter are updated to 13 May.

A description of the role and institutional objectives assigned by law to the Bank is given in the volume 'The Bank of Italy. Functions and objectives', first published in May 2018 and regularly updated.

Unless otherwise indicated, the report is updated with the information available at 30 April 2020.

The yearly accounts and a commentary on the results of the financial year 2019 are presented in the Bank of Italy's Annual Accounts published on 31 March 2020.

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