Before the regional jurisdictional sections of the Court of Auditors, the state administration or the public bodies that benefit from the patronage are represented and defended by the State Attorney's Office in pensions matters. However, the art. 13, paragraph 3, of law 3 April 1979 n. 103 allows state administrations, including those with an autonomous system, to delegate one of their officials to support their position, even orally.
In judgments of account and responsibility, also for the possible phase before the Court of Cassation, the participation of the State Attorney's Office is not foreseen, as the protection of the patrimonial interests of the administration, including the state one, is attributed by law to the General Prosecutor's Office or the regional ones of the Court of Auditors.
The abrogation of the domestic jurisdiction of the Court of Auditors, which saw the Presidency of the Council of Ministers necessarily represented by the Bar, led to the devolution of disputes on the career and economic treatment of accounting magistrates to administrative jurisdiction.