L'Amministrazione del Catasto italiano. Il processo di decentramento delle funzioni catastali.

The present study aims to reconstruct the decentralization process of the cadastral functions to town municipalities to date and to trace out the future prospects of cadastral management in Italy.Besides organizational structure, functions and informative patrimony of the Land Agency, the national regulatory framework and the operational steps of decentralizationwere here investigated. In the meantime, after over ten years from its start, cadastral decentralization has partiallylost its original importance in physical terms, either to citizens or to public institutions, due to the strong speed-upgiven by the National Land Agency to the use of Internet and data communications, which allows to provide a range of internet cadastral services.