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Decree-Law 92/2025 authorises the Italian state to extend up to EUR 200 million in financing to ILVA S.p.A., which has been under extraordinary administration (a state-supervised insolvency regime) since 2024. The funds are earmarked for "production continuity and plant safety" at the former Ilva integrated steelworks in Taranto — Europe's largest steel plant and a recurring subject of EU state-aid scrutiny given the plant's long-running financial distress and repeated emergency capital injections since the Arcelor Mittal exit. The decree allows the financing to flow either directly to ILVA or be passed through to Acciaierie d'Italia S.p.A., the operating entity. A second, distinct measure in the same decree extends tax relief for firms located in Italy's officially designated "complex industrial crisis area" (aree di crisi industriale complessa) zones through FY2025–2026, broadening the decree's scope beyond the steel sector alone.
Severity is set at 3 (moderate) on a quant basis: EUR 200m is a real but bounded fiscal commitment, one in a long sequence of Italian state interventions to keep the Taranto plant operating rather than a step-change in industrial policy.
d'Italia rather than a resolved ownership or restructuring outcome; further capital calls remain likely.
administration keeps EU state-aid conformity as an open question given the scale of cumulative aid since 2024.
than the ILVA financing line and may recur as a template for other distressed-region support in future budget/decree cycles.
since the 2024 extraordinary-administration filing (this EUR 200m is not the first tranche).
compatibility review of this financing.
tax-relief provision and the aggregate revenue cost.