Economic Policy

From the stop to online ashes: the new simplifications

The measure coming to the Council of Ministers on Tuesday

24 March 2024

Zangrillo "Semplificare le norme per favorire le imprese"

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Key points

Purpose Pharmacies
Five years for the declaration of presumed death
Linked properties
Ashes dispersal, online authorisations
School, limit to two for making up years

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Vaccines and blood tests in pharmacies, a stop to diploma mills, halving the number of years to declare presumed death, and the possibility to intervene more simply on fenced properties: these are some of the simplifications contained in the bill that is expected to be presented on Tuesday in the Council of Ministers by the Minister of Public Administration, Paolo Zangrillo.

The measure is part of the broader simplification plan that aims to introduce 200 simplifications by 2024 and 600 in total by 2026. Here are the main novelties.

Purpose Pharmacies

Pharmacies will be able to administer all vaccines (no longer just the Covid vaccine) to people over the age of 12, the number of tests that can be carried out with a capillary blood sample will be increased (blood glucose, cholesterol, triglycerides, etc.), and it will be possible to choose a general practitioner and paediatrician of choice from those affiliated with the National Health Service. In addition to the green cross identifying the pharmacy, there may be a sign with the name 'Service Pharmacy'. The pharmacy will also be able to deliver medical devices for the treatment of home care patients.

Five years for the declaration of presumed death

The time for the declaration of absence and the declaration of presumed death is halved. Presumed legal successors and anyone who reasonably believes that they have rights to the deceased's property dependent on his death may apply to the competent court to have his absence declared one year after the last notification (currently two years). A declaration of presumed death will take five years instead of ten.

Ashes dispersal, online authorisations

"Authorisations for the entrusting or scattering of ashes," the decree states, "are issued, by telematic means, by the civil status officer of the municipality of the place of death on the basis of the death notice, Istat form, necropsy certificate and any other data and information in possession, also transmitted telematically by the competent health directorate, the attending physician and the necropsy doctor or by the funeral company on behalf of the entitled persons.

Restricted Properties

The procedure for intervening on listed buildings (those of relevant interest for historical, artistic, archaeological or cultural reasons) is simplified. The Consolidated Text on Construction adds that 'in cases in which there are constraints relating to hydrogeological, environmental, landscape or cultural assets, if specific authorisation, nulla osta or deed of consent, however named, has been acquired in advance for the same intervention by the authority responsible for the care of such interests,' it will be possible to wait for silent consent at this point.

School, limit to two for making up years

"The measure stipulates that a student 'may take in the same school year, at a school of the national education system, the aptitude examinations for no more than two years of the course following the one for which he or she was admitted by final examination'. It will therefore no longer be possible to prepare for an examination covering three school years. The bill also introduces a rule against the creation of classes only for the last year before graduation in order to facilitate the baccalaureate. The activation of more than one collateral terminal class for each course of study already functioning in a parity school cannot be authorised,' it says. Among the educational simplifications there is also the priority for the confirmation of term contracts for support teachers working with disabled pupils.