The brief notes below summarize the research conducted in 2013, concerning the analysis - in a comparative perspective of the administrative law – of the legal institutions and techniques of simplification prefigured by European law, international organizations delegated to support competition and economic development and by the legal systems of some EU Member States.

The paper aims to reconstruct the legal nature of the Chamber of commerce, with particular reference to the profiles of the governance, of the juridical classification and of the relationships with the business community. A reflection is reserved for the role of business authority that seems to stand out for the Chamber of commerce.

The research aims to reconstruct, in a critical and comparative perspective, the current trend of the national legislature to intervene with disorganized and transverse measures regarding the administrative simplification in planning law.

Il saggio si propone di ricostruire, in una prospettiva comparata, la disciplina giuridica del teaching hospitals, con particolare riferimento ai profili della governance, del finanziamento e della accountability. una riflessione critica è riservata ai meccanismi competitivi prescritti dall'Health and Social Care Act 2012 anche per le strutture ospedaliere universitarie.