What is meant by "legislative acts" for the purposes of Normattiva?
What is meant by "consolidated version"?
What is meant by "multiple consolidation"?
Does Normattiva contain all acts of the Italian Republic?
Does Normattiva contain all acts of the Kingdom of Italy?
Can the legal texts that I find in Normattiva be reproduced freely elsewhere?
Can I find public recruitment selection procedures here? And if not, where can I find them?
Can I view and print the entire text of a measure?
How do I download an act in HTML or XML format?
Does Normattiva comply with the accessibility requirements in accordance with current legislation?
Where can I find the preparatory work of a legislative act?
Where can I find the text of a law passed by Parliament but not yet promulgated or published?
In what order are the results of a search shown?
Why are some articles or annexes divided into parts?
How can I link to the acts of "Normattiva"?
Is it possible to view the list of "headings" of the articles of an act?
Why are there legislative acts with Roman numbering in the portal?
How can I set the search for legislative acts with Roman numbering?
Why are some legislative acts not published in the "Official Gazette of the Kingdom of Italy"?
What is the "Official Collection of Laws and Decrees"?
Normattiva considers legislative acts to be numbered acts published in the "Official Gazette" and/or in the "Official Collection of Laws and Decrees" such as, for example, laws, decree-laws, legislative decrees, presidential decrees or ministerial decrees with a number. Normattiva does not contain unnumbered measures, as such as unnumbered presidential decrees or ministerial decrees, but takes them into account as a source for updating the regulations contained in the database.
For the purposes of Normattiva "consolidated version" means the text of a legislative act applicable at the date of consultation, with the textual changes - additions, substitutions or repeals - gradually made over time by other numbered and unnumbered legislative acts published in the "Official Gazette" and/or in the "Official Collection of Laws and Decrees". As default the portal shows the user the act applicable at the date of consultation.
Of course Normattiva cannot take into account the phenomenon of an implicit repeal (according to which a prior law - or a part thereof - is tacitly repealed by a subsequent law, which regulates the same matter in a different way), since it is up to those who are called to interpret the law to ascertain this phenomenon, the result of a sometimes delicate and complex substantive assessment.
The term "multiple consolidation" indicates the editorial procedure used to update the legislative act which allows the user to reconstruct the historical evolution of the act by displaying the changes that the text has undergone over time, associated to the corresponding dates of validity.
Yes, it is. Moreover, you can also view all subsequent versions of a text that has been amended several times over time.
The original text currently published in the "Official Gazette" is inserted in Normattiva in real time, i.e. on the day of its publication. Updates, i.e. changes that a new regulation brings to acts previously published, are made within three days from the publication of the amending regulation, except in exceptional cases of particularly long and complex regulations (e.g. financial law, consolidated laws, etc.).
Normattiva contains all the numbered legislative acts published in the "Official Gazette" and/or in the "Official Collection of Laws and Decrees" from 1946 to today, both in the original text and in "multiple consolidation".
Normattiva contains all the numbered legislative acts published in the "Official Gazette" and/or in the "Official Collection of Laws and Decrees" from 1861 to 1945, both in the original text and in "multiple consolidation".
Normattiva allows you to find acts in two ways:
The "simple search" form (or fast search) is located at the top right of all pages of the portal.
This form allows you, in both cases, to set up a conceptual search that takes into account search algorithms other than the usual search for "keywords" present in the text (for more details see the "User Guide").
It is possible to access the relevant form by selecting the button located at the top right of all the pages in the portal, below the "simple search" form, which allows you to set more specific searches.
This search allows you to find acts by entering, individually or in combination, the following information:
The search takes the words contained in the text into account.
When setting up the search you can also indicate the number of an article; in this case the system shows the text of the article indicated when it displays the act.
Reproduction of the texts supplied in electronic format is permitted provided that the source, the non-authentic nature and the fact that it was provided free of charge, is mentioned.
Public recruitment selection procedures can be found via the Portal www.gazzettaufficiale.it where the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato makes the Official Gazette available free of charge in its various series in digital format.
When displaying the act Normattiva allows you to view and print the entire text of an act by selecting the "Functions" button located in the upper left and then "Entire Act". The act can also be viewed and printed partially by selecting one or more of the elements that constitute it.
It is possible to view and print, completely or partially, the text of the act in the version applicable at any date: if not otherwise indicated, the system offers the act applicable at the date of consultation. The reconstruction of the act does not show any images related to the text.
Select the "Functions" button located in the upper left and then "Export" that, with the same procedures described in the Previous "FAQ" , allows you to download the text of the act in HTML or XML format.
The process of adaptation to the applicable legislation on accessibility is in progress. The goal is to adhere as much as possible to the regulations, taking into account the particular features of the site and the structure of the database used, obtained from the existing database in operation for the Official Gazette.
If present, it is possible to find the text of the preparatory work of the laws by selecting the "further information" button located in the upper left when the act is displayed and then the button "preparatory work".
The text of the preparatory work (proposals and draft laws, amendments, reports of parliamentary scrutiny in committees and assemblies), can be consulted on the websites of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.
The website of the Senate, since the 8th legislature (from 20 June 1979), manages the Iter Legis database, which shows, for each draft law, detailed data on the procedure as it is carried out in both the Chamber and the Senate. From the 13th legislature (from 9 May 1996) the procedure sheet was accompanied by all texts related to the process discussed in the Senate (examined texts, the reports of the Commissions and the statements of the Assembly and the Commissions). As regards the texts of the amendments, from the 14th legislature (30 May 2001) those discussed in Assembly can be consulted, while from the 15th legislature (28 April 2006) those examined in the Commission can be consulted. The address of the database Iter Legis is: www.senato.it/ricerche/sDDLa/nuova.ricerca.
On the website of the Chamber, for each draft law from the 13th legislature (from 9 May 1996), there is a sheet of the preparatory work undertaken during the examination at the Chamber of Deputies that refers to the texts of the acts relating to the measure published by the Chamber. From the 16th legislature (29th April 2008) the amendments discussed in the Commissions and in Assembly of this branch of Parliament can also be consulted.
It can be found on the Parliament's website at the address:www.parlamento.it/leg/ldl_new/sldlelencoddlappnonpub.htm.
If the "simple search" form is used the system initially shows the acts in order of "relevance".
If the "advanced search" form is used the system initially shows the acts in order of "publication": from the most recent to the least recent.
These settings can be changed when the search results are displayed by selecting the options offered at the top of the screen under "SORT BY:".
A permalink, derived from the contraction of the two words "permanent" and "link", can be used to obtain a stable connection to a web page, and in the case of "Normattiva", it ensures that a link to an act remains valid over time.
By selecting the "functions" button located in the upper left and then "permanent link", it is possible to obtain a permanent link, always "valid" and "working", to the act displayed. The "permalink" obtained can be used, as offered, within your own web pages. The system reconstructs the "permalink" with a syntax that takes into account the viewing context: for example, if you are viewing the act in its version applicable on a date, the "permalink" will be offered with a syntax that allows it to lead from your pages to the text of the act selected in the version applicable on that date.
Particularly long texts of some articles or annexes may be divided into several parts. This is the case, for example, of the Law 296/2006 (Financial 2007), consisting of a single article divided into six parts. This solution helps to ensure an optimum response by the system in case of large texts, both during the editing phase and in the presentation phase. In the case of articles or annexes divided into paragraphs, each part of the text contains a predetermined number of paragraphs that remains unchanged in subsequent versions: the size of the individual parts can increase or decrease depending on the update that the article/annex has undergone, but the number of paragraphs constituting the part remains unchanged from one version to the other.
The regulations contained in 'Normattiva' can be reached both through the search pages, that provide results in the form of the links to the individual regulations, and through the mechanism of URN links (Uniform Resource Name).
URNs are unique and permanent identifiers of internet resources (standard defined in RFC 2141) and those used by "Normattiva" are representations of references to acts of national legislation in Italy.
The text of the acts of 'Normattiva' reached via the mechanism of URN links can be displayed in any one of the following versions:
It is also possible to indicate an article: in this case the system will show the article specified when displaying the act.
Creating a link to a specific regulation in 'Normattiva’ is very simple. All you need to do is copy the following links:
Where YYYY-MM-DD represents (in year, month, day format) the date of the regulation and NNN represents the number of the regulation.
During editorial work, several inconsistencies were found in the text of the acts (especially those published in the past). A query to the Database with the syntax described above could therefore lead to a response other than the expected response.
For this reason, we suggest, for those who want to use the syntax in its broadest and most detailed form, to perform a check before publishing the link containing the query to the Database.
Requesting the URN with the rule described above can be completed, for landing on the article and the choice of the way the act is displayed, by taking the following steps:
If the URN, with the rules described above, is requested to land on a specific article, you can also specify the possible extension of the article.
In addition to the article number (e.g. art. 16) it is also possible to indicate a possible extension (art.16-bis) as shown in the following example: https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:decreto.legge:2008-11-29;185~art16bis
The following list shows the syntax to adopt when indicating an article and its most common extensions:
Special cases:
The following examples show the syntax to adopt to correctly land on the articles indicated:
(in all of the examples listed the syntax shown must be integrated by prepending https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?)
If an extension that does not exist or is wrong is indicated, the system will offer the first article of the act.
When viewing the act, by selecting the "functions" button located in the upper left and then "article headings", you can view the list of articles with the relative headings.
By selecting the article number from the list, you can then directly access the article's text.
The text (but also the list) of headings may change according to the context; in particular, if you select the button:
The option "article headings" is only active if headed articles are present in the body of the act or its annexes.
From 1861 to 1910, parallel to the main series of acts with Arabic numbering, various acts with Roman numerals were published in the "Official Gazette of the Kingdom of Italy" and in "The Official Collection of Laws and Decrees", which included measures relating to local realities of both a public nature (essentially municipalities) and of a private nature (associations, corporations, educational institutions, etc.).
The search for acts published with Roman numbering must be set with the same search mode as other acts but taking care to type the "act number", if the fields corresponding to the option "act details" are selected, using the "Arabic" representation of the number.
In these cases, the act number, when presented, will be displayed with both the "Roman" and the "Arabic" representations.
It has been found that, in the past, many "Official Gazettes of the Kingdom of Italy" merely "announced" the publication of a legislative act reporting the details of the issuance and referred the publication of the full text to the "Official Collection of Laws and Decrees".
Moreover, for a limited number of cases, some legislative acts are published exclusively in the "Official Collection" without appearing in the "Official Gazette" even in the form of an announcement. In these cases, when the act is displayed, the details of the Official Gazette in which it was published are not reported but the words "Published in OCLD" appear.
This practice, which extends, indicatively, until 1930, denotes the priority role played at the time by the "Official Collection of Laws and Decrees" with respect to the "Official Gazette" as an instrument of legislative publication.
The "Official Collection of Laws and Decrees of the Kingdom" that, starting from 1861, replaces the "Collection of acts of Government", is the official publication of reference used for the dissemination of legislative acts and acts of government.
The collection, which is the State’s most important official publication, is annual and extends over one or more volumes that list the distinct acts with a unique order number.
The collection, with effect from 1946, takes the name of "Official Collection of Laws and Decrees of the Italian Republic" and, from 1987, the name of "Official Collection of the Legislative Acts of the Italian Republic" (OCLA).
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