Il ruolo delle Commissioni nel procedimento di conversione

di Paolo Rametta

SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione. - 2. La necessità di rafforzare il ruolo del Parlamento tramite il lavoro in Commissione. - 3. Il ruolo delle Commissioni nel procedimento di conversione dei decreti-legge. - 4. Le Commissioni alla prova della legislazione della crisi. – 5. Conclusione.

Should decree-law becomes the usual modus operandi for governmental action, it is of vital importance for the legislature to set up the opportune procedural constraints for impeding a permanent erosion of its functions.
In light of the new challenges of regulation, the Italian Parliament tried to update its tools, taking into account two different and opposite needs. On the one hand, the legislature should provide the necessary mechanism to control the rise of regulation by emergency decrees. However technical, such a control is inherently linked to the political discretion exercised by parliamentary commissions. On the other hand, an efficient mechanism for converting decree-laws into parliamentary legislation shall be provided, without nevertheless encouraging their adoption.