More time for free dehors. The legislation established in the post Covid era will remain in force until June 30, 2027 against the current deadline of 31 December 2025. This is what an amendment by the rapporteur to the DDL on the simplification of economic activities to the examination of the Senate provides. The same proposal for the modification grants the government one year more for the implementation of the delegation provided for by the competition law for the reorganization of the sector. The new deadline for the adoption of the legislative decree on “reorganization and coordination of the rules on the granting of spaces and public areas of cultural or landscape interest for public financial companies (installation of removable structures)” is set at 31 December 2026. The deadline for the adoption of the delegated legislative decree is currently established within 12 months of the entry into force, on December 16, 2024, of the annual law for the competition of 2023, therefore by December 16 of this year.
The Covid rules extended from year to year, currently in force until the end of 2025 but that the amendment aims to move even later over time, provide that landscape authorization is not necessary (foreseen by the Code of Cultural Heritage) for the removable structures on streets, squares, roads, open spaces of cultural or landscape interest, provided it is temporary and functional to the administration activity. The issue is to the attention of the government that has addressed the question in the preparatory works of last Council of Ministers. Various mayors, including that of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, have in fact asked for new rules for the outdoor tables of bars and restaurants proliferated from 2020 to today often even in alleys, historical squares or near monuments. According to what reported in these days by some press advances, the intention of the executive would not however be to return to the previous rules. The new rules should in fact increase the autonomy of the municipalities and limit the need for the green light of superintendencies only to cases where the commercial exercise is in “strictly facing” spaces “national monuments, churches or other cultural heritage” which present an exceptional and highly representative identity value of the places “.