The Italian National Contact Point (thereinafter NCP) is the body founded by the Italian Government to further the effectiveness of the “OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises”(thereinafter Guidelines).
By adhering to the “Declaration on international investment and multinational enterprises” (27 June 2000), the Italian Government – as well as all other adhering Countries – undertook the duty to encourage the multinational enterprises operating in or from their territories to voluntary comply with  the recommendations contained in the Guidelines.
Indeed, the institutional instrument provided for to this aim is the NCP, that any adhering Government is bound to create in its Country. In Italy it was implemented by art. 39 of Law 273/2002 and by a following ministerial decree as a simple and streamlined structure, organised within the Minister of Economic Development (thereinafter MED) and articulated as follows:

• the General Director, in the person of the in-charge MED’s  General Director for the Industrial Policy and the Competitiveness, with decision-making powers;
• the NCP Committee, with consultative functions, composed by representatives of the interested Ministries and major national Business Associations and Trade Unions;
• The Secretariat, composed by one manager and several servants of the MED, handling the NCP day-to-day management.
  

Therefore, the NCP’s task is to spread and enforce, as widely as possible, the “Guidelines”. It does so by answering the questions made by all interested parties, as well as by implementing initiatives promoting the dialogue and the collaboration among institutions (including other countries’ NCPs), the economic world and the civil society.