Ministry of Public Works (Italy)
The Ministry of Public Works (Italian Ministero dei Lavori Pubblici ) was from 1861 to 2001 with responsibility for Public Works Ministry in Italy . It was primarily responsible for the traffic and transport infrastructure, for example for the construction of motorways, ports, rail lines and airfields, but also for hydraulic engineering . In 2001 it was merged with the Ministry of Transport to form the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport .
The Ministry of Public Works was headquartered on Porta Pia , next to the Transport Office. The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport is now located in the corresponding service buildings.
history
The ministry was established in 1848 in the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont . The Kingdom of Italy emerged from this kingdom in 1861 , which is why the corresponding ministries became Italian.
On March 19, 1816, the “General Directorate for Bridges, Roads, Hydraulic Engineering and Forestry” was established in Turin . In the following year she came to the State Secretariat for Home Affairs . On December 7, 1847, a new State Secretariat for Public Works, Agriculture and Trade was established. In the wake of the revolution of 1848 and the imposition of Karl Albert's constitution ( Statuto Albertino ), the state secretariats were renamed ministries. On that occasion, the State Secretariat for Public Works, Agriculture and Trade was divided into a Ministry for Public Works and a Ministry for Agriculture and Trade . In 1861 the former Sardinian-Piedmontese ministries in Turin expanded their area of responsibility to include the entire territory of the new Italian state and were expanded accordingly in terms of personnel and material. In 1865 the company moved from Turin to Florence , then to Rome in 1871. The ministry was further divided into general directorates. For a long time, peripheral offices were held primarily at the provincial level and later also at the regional level . A reform of the Italian ministerial bureaucracy initiated in 1997 by the then center-left government (referred to as the Bassanini reform after the responsible minister Franco Bassanini ) formed the basis for the amalgamation and reorganization of various ministries in Italy, including the traditional Ministry of Public Affairs Working with which was merged for traffic.