Abstract

VERNASSA, Maurizio. Origins, transformations and current events of the Official Journal of the Italian Republic as an obrigatory publishing tool for regulatory acts. População e Sociedade [online]. 2019, n.32, pp.117-131.  Epub July 01, 2022. ISSN 0873-1861.

Article no.73 of the Italian Republic’s Constitution expects an inseparable connection between the correct writing of a regulatory act and its knowledge by citizens, that is, its divulgation through the Official Journal as a requirement for an always major participation in politics. In the last years, thanks to the spread of informatics technologies, we can consider the long and complex journey started in 1797 with the Gazzetta Piemontese in Sardinia Kingdom, and continued, from 1861 to 1946, with the Gazzetta Ufficiale del Regno d’Italia, to be finally over. Through its long life, it has experienced major changes and the idea that prevailed was that the ‘Official Journal’ had to give notice of the laws and regulatory acts announcement, which were to be known in full in the «Raccolta degli atti di Governo». In Italian set of rules, it’s now custom the principle of the ‘double publication’ and both official forms of publication have legal validity.

Keywords : Official journal of the Italian Republic; Italian Republic’s Constitution; participation in politics; principle of the ‘double publication’; knowability by citizens.

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