In Italy, there is a provision which states that private businessmen or legal representatives of private corporations or enterprises linked to the state by contracts, concessions or authorisations are ineligible as deputies. Members of parliament are not allowed to occupy offices, or exercise the functions, of administrator, president, general director or permanent legal advisor to associations or entities with public functions, to which the state contributes ordinarily, be it directly or indirectly. The same incompatibilities apply to positions in banks or “joint-stock companies” with primarily financial activities. Deputies are not allowed to advise financial or economical enterprises in their transactions with the state.