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Collected Papers of the Faculty of Law of the University of Rijeka / Raccolta di scritti della Facoltà di giurisprudenza dell'Università di Rijeka / Gesammelte Schriften der Rechtswissen, Vol. 44 No. 2, 2023.

Review article

https://doi.org/10.30925/zpfsr.44.2.11

The Italian Response to COVID-19: Between the Civil Protection Code and Prime Ministerial Decrees

Andrea Conzutti orcid id orcid.org/0000-0003-4434-2945 ; Department of Legal Sciences, Language, Interpreting and Translation Studies, University of Trieste *

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Abstract

Almost three years after the outbreak of the pandemic, it seems to be possible to identify some trends and draw some concluding remarks concerning the legal response to the pandemic crisis in Italy. While the constitutional system was probably successful in safeguarding the core content of the rule of law, the question to be asked might well be another one. Namely, did the legal framework, based on the combination of the use of decree-laws and prime ministerial decrees, and greatly diverged from the Civil Protection Code, really prove to be the most suitable response, or, on deeper analysis, did it end up generating more problems than it solved?

Keywords

COVID-19; Italy; regulatory policy; governance capacity

Hrčak ID:

307950

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/307950

Publication date:

15.9.2023.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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