Contract for supervision of the Rome incinerator project

Priority question for written answer P-001714/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Dario Tamburrano (The Left), Ignazio Roberto Marino (Verts/ALE), Gaetano Pedulla' (The Left), Pasquale Tridico (The Left)

In Rome, the Special Government Commissioner for the Jubilee - who is also Waste Commissioner[1] and Mayor - has initiated the construction of an incinerator[2]. According to the report published in Tenders Electronic Daily[3], the legal basis for the contract for supervision of the project is Directive 2014/24/EU and, for reasons of extreme urgency caused by events that were unforeseeable for the developer, the contract was awarded by means of a negotiated procedure without publication of a tender procedure.

It seems implausible that there could be an unforeseeable urgency connected with the Jubilee and waste management, as the Jubilee has been running for centuries at a very regular 20-year interval.

The Commissioner decided[4] to award the contract without a call for tenders and by means of an urgent procedure to 'ensure that the project [was] carried out within the timescale set out in the project schedule'[5]. The project schedule[6] and the schedule for the Rome waste management plan[7] (which the project schedule is part of) were signed off by the Commissioner for the Jubilee and Waste Commissioner himself.

In the light of the above:

• 1.Can the Commission confirm that the contract for the supervision of the incinerator project has Directive 2014/24/EU as a legal basis?
• 2.If so, is the justification for the urgent procedure without a call for tenders the same as that permitted under Directive 2014/24/EU?
• 3.If not, what measures does the Commission intend to take?

Submitted: 29.4.2025

• [1] https://www.comune.roma.it/web/it/commissario-straordinario-di-governo-per-il-giubileo.page.
• [2] https://commissari.gov.it/media/2335/ordinanza_n_8_rm228-ordinanza_attivita_propedeutiche_termovalorizzatore_signed_firmato.pdf.
• [3] https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/775283-2024.
• [4] https://commissari.gov.it/media/v2waavsi/ordinanza_30_2024_rm_4434_project_financing.pdf.
• [5] Ibid., p. 11, last sentence.
• [6] https://www.comune.roma.it/web-resources/cms/documents/termovalorizzatore_piano_rifiuti_slide.pdf, see page 9.
• [7] https://commissari.gov.it/media/2336/piano_gestione_rifiuti.pdf, see pp. 180-181.