The Project LIFE PHOENIX has expanded its partnership to a new beneficiary associated named Azienda Zero to achieve its administrative and technical objectives.

Azienda Zero is an Agency body/company of the Veneto Regional Health System, with legal status, as well as administrative, organisational, technical, managerial and financial autonomy. The corporate regulation of Azienda Zero has been introduced by the DGRV No. 733 of 29 May 2017 entitled 'Guidelines to enact the corporate regulation and to approve the organisational structure of Azienda Zero.

Attribution to Azienda Zero of the functions envisaged at article 2, comma 2, of the regional law No 19 of 25 October 2016 and of the function of aggregational body. DGR No 31/CR of 6 April 2017 (article 2, commas 2 and 6, of the regional law No 19 of 25 October 2016). This regulation identifies its mission and organisational structure.

With the DGRV No 3 of 5 January 2018 some changes have been introduced to the normative framework described above. In particular, some offices/resources and personnel of the regional government have been transferred to Azienda Zero. Among these, the Purchasing Department of the Veneto Region (CRAV) and the information system of the Health and Social Department of the Region (DGRV 3/2018).

These structures in the project are necessary to buy the services for Veneto Region - Lead Partner and in the case of the Information system of the Health and Social Department to develop the action B.2 - Implementing an informative and statistic system, one of the most important project action. At the end, the partner with the monitor's approval, decided to propose an amendment to EU Commission to introduce Azienda Zero as beneficiary associated and to postpone of the end of the project by 6 months (from 30 September 2020 to 31 March 2021).

In the new organization chart of the project, Azienda Zero is the organization responsible for the implementation of the B.2 action as laid down in the project and has the function and competence for procurement external assistance and the purchasing of all the relevant and needed items, while Veneto Region, as Lead Partner, provide to manage the whole project's activities.