La riconfigurazione del sistema delle banche popolari ed i poteri della Banca d’Italia
Abstract
In this thesis it is possible to identify at least two levels of comprehension, the first expressive
of a flat analysis of the problems treated, since they are connected by the common derivation
from the d.l. 3/2015, the second instead of logical-reconstructive order, which starting from
the observation that the reform is a compendium of many major issues debated at the
doctrinal and jurisprudential level in recent decades, in commercial and administrative law,
enucleate a trait that accumulates or rather a minimum common denominator: the
presumption of neutrality.
With regard to the first reading plan, we discussed of the main problems posed by the reform
and tried to demonstrate that the ultimate inspirational reason for this is likely to be found in
the need to guarantee a sound and prudent management of the institutions, this has
determined, only as an indirect consequence, the sacrifice of the mutualistic purpose and
the triumph of the lucrative one. It has been attempted to demonstrate that the legislator,
through a logical inversion of the problems, has marginalized credit cooperation precisely to
guarantee the sound and prudent management of the institutions, in light of the difficulties
encountered by Italian supervision in ensuring compliance with this criterion management
especially for larger, popular banks. Hence the centrality of the role that the Bank of Italy
has played not only in the implementation of the reform but also with respect to the same
inspirational reasons for the change in paradigm.
As for the second reading plan, we started from the particular (normative detail) to then
abstract the general problem and finally always on the basis of a careful analysis of the
norm, extract the reasoning underlying the logic of neutralization to try to unveil the
unfounded prejudice.
This does not mean that in this study does not refer to other knowledge other than law, the
law is in fact "instrument tools" is what confines, delimits the other tools (science, economy,
religion ...) hopefully are therefore forgiven , in light of this statement, the incursions that in
this thesis are found with respect to other fields starting from the economic and
philosophical, according to the teaching of many great masters of the '900. The law, in fact,
is the detail of principles, values and trends, as well as the resolution of problems formed in
other heads of human knowledge and more generally of human social experience. To be
fully understood, the right must therefore be linked to its presuppositions, as the jurist is not
allowed to "turn in on himself", through an analysis limited to the simple normative
precipitate.
The attempt of the thesis (perhaps the result of a sin of ὕβρις) was to try to demonstrate,
starting from the analysis of the reform of the popular banks and the role of the Bank of Italy
and based on the empirical evidence from the same obtainable, which the myth of neutrality,
in the dual declination of the legal institution of the company contract (which will be
discussed in the first chapter) and of the powers of the independent authorities (which will
be discussed in the third chapter) is more a prejudice than a positive evidence, both in
commercial law and in administrative law.
In the first chapter, dedicated to a deepening of the historical evolution of the phenomenon
of the popular banks, we tried to prove the groundlessness of the thesis of the neutrality of
the company contract, also in virtue of the thesis that the form is substance.
In the second chapter, dedicated to the analysis of the c.d. popular reform of 2015, we tried
to understand the real reasons underlying the same, in order to demonstrate the
groundlessness of the thesis that sees this regulatory intervention as the result of purely
technical-legal needs. It was therefore proved that the choice to suppress (rectius strongly
resize) the cooperative banking activity of the people is purely political and not neutral or
technical, not only because our constitutional system imposes the political dimension of the
legislative choice, but above all because the recalled technical needs appear to be more
presumed than real (think of the lack of mutualistic substance of the same, founded on the
basis of an outdated but deeply rooted thesis of Ferri and referred to in the government
report to the reform as a central motif). In this context, we also proceeded with the analysis
of the main constitutional compatibility problems posed by the reform and we have drawn a
line of continuity between the issue of limiting the reimbursement of shares and the thesis
of the conformational powers typical of the sectional orders, then more properly addressed
in conclusion of the third chapter.
Finally, in the third chapter, the problem of the neutrality of the technique in administrative
law has been tackled, even in this sector, discipline neutrality is often more a proclaimed
fact than an intrinsic quality, as is evident from the analysis of discretionality and more in
gender of the non-neutral supervisory functions of the Bank of Italy. All this was also useful
in order to understand that the thesis of Massimo Severo Giannini on the sectional ordering
of credit (in the revised sense) is no longer capable of describing the functioning of the
banking system today and this despite the recognition of non-neutral powers and the
emergence of a prudential and conformative regulation. [edited by Author]