The Italian government and the National Trade Unions signed on 6 April 2021 the new Protocol on Health and Safety measures in the workplace (document in Italian here), with the aim of containing the spread of the COVID-19 virus and which updates the previous protocol signed on 14 March 2020 and updated on 24 April 2020 (see our newsletter on the protocol of 14 March here and the one on the protocol of 24 April here).
On 1 April 2021, Decree-Law No. 4/20201 has been published in the Italian Official Gazette whose Section 4 introduces the compulsory vaccination against COVID-19 for healthcare professionals and operators and provides a detailed procedure for its operation and sanctions in case of non-compliance.
With EU Implementing Regulation 2021/442 of 11 March 2021, the European Commission introduced a new export authorization regime for COVID-19 vaccines applicable until 30 June 2021 which replaces the one initially established with EU Implementing Regulation 2021/111 of 29 January 2021. In particular, the new Implementing Regulation provides that the export outside the EU of vaccines and active substances classified with the identification codes listed therein is subject to prior authorization.
In brief Italy Energy & Sustainability Newsletter for the month of April 2021. Contents The Italian Ministry of Ecological Transition has been established The changes in the energy sector introduced by the law converting the Milleproroghe Law Decree Cooperation between the Italian Energy Services Manager (GSE) and the Lombardy region…
Since the ICO boom in 2017, governments around the world began settling on different approaches to regulating the…
In brief With Directorial Determination No. 357/2021, the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) adopted a new simplified procedure for…
On 23 March 2021, a new Decree no. 41/2021 named Sostegni (you can read the Italian version of the decree here), came into force, providing for new measures to support business activities impacted by the COVID-19 emergency.
In an 18 March 2021 statement released by the German Foreign Ministry, the Group of Seven (G7) nations…
With Judgment No. 1455 dated 17 February 2021 the Council of State upheld the decision of a contracting authority not to award a public tender for the supply of antiseptics and disinfectants where the only valid offer was found to have a value higher than that identified through a comparative survey of the prices of goods in the healthcare sector.
With Resolution No. 166 of 10 February 2021, the Italian Medicine Agency (AIFA) specified the criteria for inclusion in the transparency list of off-patent drugs that have the same composition in terms of active ingredients, as well as the same pharmaceutical form, administration route, mode of release, number of posological units and dose units.