With the regional law of 28 September 2024, n. 23, published in the special issue of the Bur of 30 September 2024, changes were introduced to the regional law of 17 August 1998, n. 25 (“Discipline of regional activities and interventions in the field of civil protection – Repeal of LR 19 December 1994, n. 46”) and the regional law of 6 July 2016, n. 13 (“Regulations for the reception, protection and integration of migrant citizens and refugees”).
Among the additions to the first law text on civil protection, there is article 18 bis on the “Regional state of emergency”. The new provision, in paragraph 1, provides that: “On the occasion or in the imminence of emergencies connected to calamitous events of natural origin or deriving from human activity which by their nature or extent involve the coordinated intervention of multiple bodies or administrations and must be faced with extraordinary means and powers to be used during limited and predefined periods of time, regulated by the Region in the exercise of its legislative power, the President of the Regional Council, with his own decree, declares the regional state of emergency, determining its duration (…) and territorial extension with reference to the nature and quality of the events”.
The last paragraph of article 18 bis provides that: “At the end of the regional state of emergency, the Regional Council establishes the methods for completing the interventions envisaged following the regional emergency and the methods for assigning any financial contributions allocated within the limit of the resources available in the budget”.
In reference to the second law text for the reception, protection and integration of migrant citizens and refugees, paragraph 1 bis is introduced in article 3, which reads as follows: “In case of emergency situations for public notices gone deserted (…) for the year 2024 the Regional Council is authorized (…) to mobilize the actors involved in the processes of reception, protection and integration of foreign citizens, migrants and refugees, for urgent interventions, making use of existing structures and sites of property of the Institution pending the completion of the existing regional reception centres, also using regional funds or community funds intended for this purpose”.
The law, approved by the Regional Council and promulgated by the president of the Regional Council, was declared urgent and comes into force the day following its publication in the Bur.