Parliamentary activity under the COVID-19 emergency: the Italian experience

In: Gosudarstvo i pravo, Issue 9, p. 138

Abstract

The analysis of the practice of the functioning of the Italian Parliament in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic has made it possible to identify the legal instruments by which the representative body managed to adapt to the new conditions and ensure the implementation of parliamentary procedures without making changes to the Standing Orders of the Chambers, to consider the impact of the continuing emergency regime and lockdown on the implementation of the legislative and oversight of the executive functions of the Parliament, to show what approaches are proposed in the doctrine to solve the identified problems