I posted
this back in May. It appears that ENAC are not protecting Italian jobs at all, since there are very few ATR-rated pilots available in Italy.
Instead they are damaging Italian jobs - jobs on the ground, cabin crew jobs and (for the future) jobs on the flight deck, since the airline will not be able to employ
any pilots if it does not get going, and is not allowed to employ foreign nationals (albeit EU citizens) such as myself on a temporary contract over the period of their startup. ENAC are also damaging Italian infrastructure. Meridiana are interested in subbing flights to Air Industria, and Sicily and Sardinia are crying out for more air links to the mainland to support tourism.
The Italian authorities are deliberately sabotaging Italian jobs and Italian economic investment with their stupid and short-sighted policies. No wonder they don't want to implement JAA. Despite having signed up to it, there is
no JAA implementation yet in Italy.