ROMA (ITALPRESS) – The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, has promulgated the law “Dispositions on civil protection”, approved by the Senate on 4 August 2026 and by the Chamber on 21 October 2026, sending to the President of the Senate, Ignazio La Russo, to the President of the Chamber, Lorenzo Fontana, and to the President of the Council of Ministers, Giorgia Meloni, a letter in which emphasizes how “the law introduces.
“It also provides for a further limitation of criminal liability for civil protection personnel by stating that, in cases where the cause of non-punishment is not applicable, volunteers do not respond to misleading offences while authorities and operators benefit from this limitation of liability only for the facts committed in the context of urgent measures and interventions for emergency management. The law, moving from the awareness of the objective difficulties connected with the management of emergencies, is, moreover, enrolled within the recent tendency to abandon the configuration of the culprit responsibility as a unitary phenomenon, in favor of a proliferation of different rules according to the characteristics of the various contexts considered”, observes the head of the State.
“In the case of species, the indicated cause of non-punishability introduces a very wide derogation to the general responsibility because, unlike in other professional areas, it is also extended to serious fault, not limiting non-punishability to imperative but also understanding negligence and imprudence. In addition, as mentioned, in some cases the newly promulgated law provides that it does not respond due to slight negligence. While aware of the undoubted peculiarities of certain physiological activities exposed to high risk profiles, I call on the Parliament and the Government to assess whether appropriate differentiated interventions in the matter of criminal liability for specific sectors outside of coordination according to homogeneous criteria. Evaluation to be carried out also in view of possible similar demands of other professional categories. The objective – Mattarella concludes – must be to define a coherent regulatory framework inspired by the same principles and criteria, so as to ensure that any different regimes are marked by reasonableness and fairness.”.
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