The public authority responsible for regulating the Italian financial markets (Consob) announced on 11 December that, following the conclusion of its public consultation with the market, it had adopted the Regulation aimed at governing the circulation of financial instruments based on Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT), as provided for in Legislative Decree No. 25/2923 (Fintech Decree). […]
The National Association of Insurance Companies (ANIA), by means of a statement published on its website, announces the creation of guidelines addressed to insurance companies to prevent and combat the spread of websites containing false insurance policies. As stated by the Association, the phenomenon of “fake” sites is increasingly widespread, and scammers often replicate perfectly […]
On December 12, 2023, the Italian Data Protection Authority and the National Cybersecurity Agency approved the “Guidelines on cryptographic functions – password protection” (“Guidelines”). The purpose of the Guidelines is to provide recommendations on cryptographic functions deemed currently most secure for protecting the passwords of users stored within systems of companies and administrations acting as […]
In March 2023, the Committee for the study and analysis of issues related to medical malpractice has been established at the Ministry of Justice. Its objective is to examine the current legislation and jurisprudence on the matter of medical malpractice, discussing limitations and critical aspects, and potentially proposing regulatory interventions. The National Association of Insurance […]
The three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA, and ESMA) have published a fact sheet with the title: «Investments, loans, insurances, or pensions with sustainable characteristics: what to know?», addressing the main questions brought by consumers regarding sustainable finance. The purpose of the fact sheet is to provide guidance to consumers considering purchasing financial products with […]
Introduction The Italian Tax Agency has been carrying out an intense audit activity on a significant number of yachts that have carried out charters started in Italy during the period 2017/2020. The scope of the audits is to reclaim the VAT balance that should have been paid by the yacht owners on charters started in […]
The Italian Administrative Court (“TAR”) for Latium, IV Division, by order 8083 of 7/12/2023 (RG 15566/2023) , has suspended the Decree dated September 29, 2023 of the Ministry for the Enterprises and of Made in Italy (Mimint), relating to “Operativity of the system to file the data and information relating to the Beneficial Ownership”, published […]
ASL Napoli 3 Sud (a healthcare public institution) has been subject to a fine by the Italian Privacy Authority, which imposed -through decision n. 426/2023- a penalty of €30.000 on the institution. This fine was levied for inadequately protecting the personal and healthcare data of 842.000 individuals -patients and employees- from hacker attacks. Specifically, the healthcare […]
With Order no. 25593 of 01/09/2023, the Supreme Court confirm a legal principle that had already been stated in the past with the previous provision no. 2655/2011. The appealing party had contested a part of the appealed ruling for violating Article 116 of the Italian Civil Procedure Code (regarding the evaluation of procedural evidence), arguing […]
On November 24, the European Banking Authority (EBA) initiated a public consultation on the draft guidelines regarding the prevention of abuse of funds and crypto-asset transfers for the purposes of money laundering and terrorist financing. These guidelines aim to ensure the consistent application of European law, specifying the measures that payment service providers (PSPs), intermediaries […]
