LIST OF HANDICRAFT BUSINESS

Sources of the Law

Legge quadro per l’artigianato n.443/1985

Legge Regionale 14 gennaio 2009, n.1

Handicraft Business

The main purpose of Handicraft Business is producing goods, also semimanufactured products, or providing services, except for agricultural and commercial activities, intermediation, supplying of food or beverage.

Why enroll in the list of Handicraft Business?

Enrolment in the Provincial List of Handicraft Business is compulsory (except for multi-member limited liability companies – see Law 57/2001, art. 13) and:

• it establishes a handicraft business;
• it is the necessary condition to obtain facilities for this kind of business;
• it implies the record in the Special Section of the Business Register;
• it implies the owner’s or partners’ registration (for limited liability companies all the general partners are involved) in the craftsmen’s list for social security purposes, by official communication to the INPS (the Italian social security institution); by owner’s request, also co-operating relatives can be registered in the policy-holders’ lists, as well as relatives within the third degree of kindred and relatives-in-law within the third degree that regularly and prevalently cooperate with the owner or the partner in the handicraft business management.

For those companies having the requisites provided for Law n. 443 of the 8^th of August 1985 (Outline Law for Craftsmen), enrolment in the provincial list of handicraft business is put into practice when the company’s legal representative presents a communication of enrolment to the Business Register having the territorial jurisdiction. Then the Business Register will send the communication to the Office of the list. 

Request for enrolment will later on be examined by the Provincial Commission for Handicraft Business, that has the authority to order controls on the enrolments established by the Office of the list, checking the existence of requisites established by the law in force and taking measures (of change or cancellation), after listening to the party concerned.

NB - Since the 1^st of April 2010 the Comunicazione Unica is compulsory and, according to the provisions of Law Regione Piemonte n. 1/2009, communication of enrolment has to be presented the same day when requisites of handicraft business have been obtained.

CLAIMS

According to the administrative law, it is possible to make an appeal against the sentences delivered by the Office of the List and the Provincial Commission for Handicraft Business, referring to the Regional Commission for Handicraft Business within 60 days since the notification of the decisions.

SANCTIONS

Sources of the Law

Legge Regionale 14 gennaio 2009, n.1

Sanctions are verified and applied by the Chamber of Commerce having the territorial jurisdiction.

Sanctions are applied in case of:

• communication of enrolment in the List of Handicraft Business presented over 30 days after the business has started, or omitted communication;
• communication of changes concerning business, head office and firm name presented over 30 days after the event or omitted communication;
• announcement of closing-down presented over 30 days after the closing-down date or after the loss of requisites established by the law provisions, or omitted communication;
• unlawful use, by a company not enrolled in the List, of  references to handicraft business in its name, sign or mark.

        AMOUNTS

• From €200,00 to €1.000,00 in case of omitted communication of enrolment or communication made after the deadline date; sanction is reduced from €25 to €150 in case of communication of enrolment presented within 60 days after the deadline;
• From €200,00 to €1.000,00 in case of omitted communication about changes or closing-down made after the deadline; sanction is cut down from €25,00 to €150,00 in case of  communication about changes or closing-down presented within 60 days after the deadline;

• From € 200,00 to €2.000,00 in case of unlawful use, by a company not enrolled in the List, of references to handicraft business in its name, sign or mark.