Medicine, Council of State urges Tar: 'Issues to be settled as soon as possible'

The Council of State urges the Regional Administrative Court to rule on the "case" of the filter semester in Medicine, the new system of access to the faculty that came into force last year. It did so with five orders that, while not upholding the plaintiffs' appeals on the merits, share "the parties' wish that the dispute be settled as quickly as possible".

This was clarified by the second instance administrative judges in a note. The orders, in fact, "were expressly limited to urging the Lazio Regional Administrative Court to issue rulings in order to quickly settle the dispute.

Translated, the rulings issued "did not uphold the interlocutory applications proposed by the applicants in the main proceedings, but, pursuant to Article 55, paragraph 10, of the Code of Administrative Proceedings, only accepted and shared the parties' wish that the litigation be settled as quickly as possible. The orders, which did not refer to any flaws in the deeds, did not therefore affect the course of the procedures and the effects of the contested deeds," it is stressed, "and only emphasised how the issues, concerning tens of thousands of interested parties, should be defined as soon as possible by a ruling, with the obvious aim of allowing the interested parties to make the most appropriate choices on their own future.

The appeals, promoted by lawyers Michele Bonetti and Santi Delia with the support of the Union of University Students (UdU), contest in particular the changes introduced by the ministerial decree of 23 December 2025 after the holding of the filter semester examinations.

According to the plaintiffs, the change in the current rules affected the position of students already enrolled in the courses. Furthermore, it is contested that several students were excluded from university life after having been part of it for several months.