3) Circular Ministerial 2 February 2009 n ° 617

Instructions for the Application of the "New Technical Standards for Construction" as per the Ministerial Decree of January 14, 2008. (the text of which can be consulted in full in the address www.gazzettaufficiale.it

By Ministerial Decree 14 January 2008, published in the Official Gazette of 4 February 2008, no. 29, the "New Technical Standards for Buildings" have been approved, a legislative text that gathers unitary rules governing the design, execution and testing of buildings in order to ensure, by established security levels, the public safety '. These norms represent the most advanced normative expression for the protection of public safety in the construction sector, according to a coherent approach to eurocodes and with state of the art content, regarding the timely assessment of the seismic hazard of the national territory and hence to the needs of a modern seismoresist design of civil engineering works to be realized or restructured in Italy; shared by the academic, professional and productive-business world.

These instructions are intended to provide operators with directions, information elements and additions, for a more simple and unambiguous application of the New Technical Standards for Construction.