The new procedural guideline on Natural Shopping Centres (CCN) has been adopted by the Regional Executive Board of Campania.

Thanks to this, the procedures for establishing consortia among businesses are simplified, as well as the procedures that the consortium has to do in order to obtain the acknowledgment by the Municipality; also, the possibility for the Centres to be the beneficiaries of action for professional training has been considered.

The changes and integrations to the original text approved are the following:

• The CCNs have to have no less than 25 adhering units for the themed CCNs, while for the territorial CCNs the limit is 60 units for the main cities of provinces and 40 units for all the other municipalities;
• As for the recognition of CCNs, the legal subjects possessing the requisites asked for by the procedural guideline, can make request to the municipality that is seat of the identified territorial area;
• The CCNs can be beneficiaries of promotion and funding measures that – within the objectives and instruments considered by Contratto Campania of 24 October 2011 and with the participation of CATs and Bilateral Authorities for trade, tourism, services and craftsmanship, and educational authorities accredited by Regione Campania – would support and promote professional trainings, to be realised for integrating businesses, and aimed at the improvement of HR competences, also through training courses and internships, with the final purpose of increasing the productivity level and the competitiveness of the businesses of the CCN.

“The CCNs – underlines Fulvio Martusciello, president Caldoro’s councillor for Productive Activities and Economic Development – represent the association of retail businesses, in order to commend and integrate the resources of the territory, and to make trade a leading sector of our productive system.

“In a first moment of the application of the regulation on the Natural Shopping Centres, we saw margins of improvement. With the modifications resolved by the Executive Board, we operate for definitely more simplified procedures: in particular, the preventive authorisation of the municipalities has been excluded. We are getting prepared to enter, therefore, the phase of publication of the call for the new CCNs, for which the Ministry of Economic Development has allocated 5 million Euros. More simplified procedures and a new financial commitment: in this way we put the regional retail trade back on its feet”, Martusciello concludes.

“The hope – Stefano Caldoro, President of Regione Campania, says – is that such initiatives may bring development and new employment. Quick and effective answers are necessary”.