Rome, 24 September (LaPresse) – According to sources at Palazzo Chigi, this afternoon’s Council of Ministers meeting resolved to challenge, before the Constitutional Court, pursuant to Article 127 of the Constitution, the Emilia-Romagna Regional Law of 28 July 2026, No. 10, entitled ‘Organisational arrangements for the implementation of Constitutional Court judgments Nos. 242/2019 and 135/2024 on medically assisted suicide’. The Council of Ministers, the same sources explain, “found that the regional legislation conflicts with Articles 2, 32 and 117, second paragraph, letter l), concerning civil and criminal law, and 117, third paragraph, of the Constitution, concerning the protection of health’; furthermore, ‘it found that the regional law had infringed a number of areas falling within the exclusive competence of the State, delegating to regional guidelines the definition of a series of requirements, thereby circumventing the constraints imposed on this point by the Constitutional Court’ . “Furthermore – it is emphasised – despite the Region’s commitments to amend the law, the structure of the legislation does not adequately and effectively guarantee the prior provision of a personalised palliative care pathway and other support systems to prevent recourse to suicide”. “On this last point – the sources at Palazzo Chigi conclude – it is worth noting that, despite the significant funding allocated by this Government, which has increased the funds for palliative care by 40 million euros, bringing the total to 140 million, many regions are still far from achieving the targets for the use, across their territories, of the resources they have received on a pro rata basis.”
End-of-life care: sources at Chigi say, “The Council of Ministers has decided to challenge the Emilia-Romagna law”
Rome, 24 September (LaPresse) – According to sources at Palazzo Chigi, this afternoon’s Council of Ministers meeting resolved to challenge, before the Constitutional Court, pursuant to Article 127 of the Constitution, the Emilia-Romagna Regional Law of 28 July 2026, No. 10, entitled ‘Organisational arrangements for the implementation of Constitutional Court judgments Nos. 242/2019 and 135/2024 on medically assisted suicide’. The Council of Ministers, the same sources explain, “found that the regional legislation conflicts with Articles 2, 32 and 117, second paragraph, letter l), concerning civil and criminal law, and 117, third paragraph, of the Constitution, concerning the protection of health’; furthermore, ‘it found that the regional law had infringed a number of areas falling within the exclusive competence of the State, delegating to regional guidelines the definition of a series of requirements, thereby circumventing the constraints imposed on this point by the Constitutional Court’ . “Furthermore – it is emphasised – despite the Region’s commitments to amend the law, the structure of the legislation does not adequately and effectively guarantee the prior provision of a personalised palliative care pathway and other support systems to prevent recourse to suicide”. “On this last point – the sources at Palazzo Chigi conclude – it is worth noting that, despite the significant funding allocated by this Government, which has increased the funds for palliative care by 40 million euros, bringing the total to 140 million, many regions are still far from achieving the targets for the use, across their territories, of the resources they have received on a pro rata basis.”