1 Amendments of Mara BIZZOTTO related to 2015/2326(INI)
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Deplores the fact that, although the Directive (2011/7/EU) on combating late payment in commercial transactions requires public authorities to pay invoices within 30-60 days, data from the CGIA association of SMEs and craft undertakings in Mestre indicate that in Italy the public authorities still take 144 days to pay their bills, which is reduced to 106 days where electronic invoicing has been introduced, as against the European average of 38 days;