After having been announced by the Premier Conte at the end of the meeting of the Council of Ministers on Monday, March 16, finally was published in the Official Gazette n. 70 of 17.03.2020 the D.L. n. 18 of 2020, already known as the decree “Cura Italia””.
This regulatory apparatus – which in part incorporates, extending them to the whole country, the provisions already contained in Decree Law No. 9/2020 concerning the so-called “”red areas”” and “”yellow areas”” of Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna – is in addition to the emergency provisions already issued by the Government during the past weeks to deal with the health emergency (or pandemic, as defined by the WHO) related to the rapid and unexpected spread, even in Italy, of Covid-19. Compared to previous regulatory interventions, the decree in question is characterized by a more systematic approach, regulating different aspects of the life of families and businesses, unlike the fragmentation and sectorialization of the decrees that followed from the end of February to date.
The Cura Italia decree intervenes, in fact, mainly in the following macro-areas:
a) financing and other measures for the strengthening of the National Health System, the Civil Protection and other public bodies involved in the emergency
