More on Algorithms and Public Administration

This paper analyses a recent judgement of the Campania Regional Administrative Court on algorithmic administration. The topic confirms its enduring relevance in the debate and returns to the relationship between discretion and binding nature in automated procedures. Moreover, the decision focuses on the principles necessary for a correct exercise of algorithmic administration, specifically the principle of knowability and non-exclusivity of the automated decision. Finally, the paper proposes a critical reading of the new Article 30 of the Public-Contracts Code, which is the first rule in the Italian frameword that expressly allows the use of artificial-intelligence instruments.