Director General: Dr. Andrea Piccioli
The Director General is responsible for the management of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS, the National Institute of Health in Italy) and performs tasks that are outside the specific competences of the President or other directors.
The Director General is committed to continuously improve the quality of work at ISS, respecting the environment and the health and safety of workers; implements the provisions of the Board of Directors and the President, and proposes to the President the adoption of deeds to be submitted to the Board of Directors.
He prepares the budget, as well as the general report of the Institute and any other variations to the budget itself; he annually assigns the objectives to be achieved by managers in accordance with the three year activity plan of the administrative operational area; he identifies areas of need, planning their implementation on the basis of the budgetary resources and allocating them to the centres of costs and responsibility.
In order to achieve the management objectives set by the three-year activity plan, the Director General periodically checks the activity of the cost centres; he approves the opening of competition procedures regarding services and supplies that exceed the EU threshold; he determines the management objectives for the implementation of the three-year activity plan and verifies its achievement; he provides the structures of the technical-scientific area with strategic support and administrative-managerial and technical skills; he develops and manages the institutional information and communication activities; he is an employer for the purposes referred to in Legislative Decree 9 April 2008, n. 81, and subsequent modifications; on the proposal of general directors, he appoints executive directors (level 2), and proposes to the President the appointment of executive directors (level 1), pursuant to Legislative Decree 30 March 2001, no. 165, and subsequent modifications.
For the performance of his functions, the Director General is supported by his offices (directly identified and governed by specific regulations), made up of personnel included in the current staff of the ISS.
The Directorate-General makes use, pursuant to art. 8, paragraph 2 of the Statute of the following support structures:
Director General's Segreteriat
- phone: (+39) 06 4990 5490
- mail: direzione.generale@iss.it
The secretariat carries out support activities to perform its duties, coordinating the relative functions. An employee of the Institute is in charge of the secretariat, with the functions of head of the secretariat, identified by provision of the Director General.
Technical Secretariat and External Relations
On behalf of the Director General, this unit develops and manages external relations and associated institutional ties. The unit is headed by a manager appointed by the Director General.
Security and access control
- Responsable: Marco Cinque
- phone: (+39) 06 4990 2899-2441
- mail: marco.cinque@iss.it
It performs the functions of daytime security, access control and evening and night monitoring in the areas belonging to the ISS and in the access gates; issue temporary badges (guests/external companies) with periodic control of visitors’ entrances.
