Il processo costituzionale cambia pelle: e-Cost e l’avvento del digitale

di Celeste Chiariello e Jacopo Ferracuti

SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione. – 2. I primi passi verso un processo costituzionale digitalizzato. – 3. Processo costituzionale e misure emergenziali. – 4. Meglio tardi che mai: il lancio di e-Cost. – 5. Il nuovo portale e-Cost. Accessibilità ed elasticità della relativa disciplina. – 6. e-Cost: punto di arrivo o di partenza?

The essay focuses on the novelty, introduced starting on 3 December 2021, of the electronic constitutional process. In particular, the essay retraces the first steps taken by the constitutional Court toward a digitalized constitutional process, also focusing on the transitional regulations introduced in the emergency period linked to the spread of COVID-19. Therefore, it analyzes more closely both the new regulation introduced, to highlight its peculiar characteristics, and the characteristics of the e-Cost portal, also in comparison with those of the telematic processes of other justice systems (civil, criminal, administrative, and tax). In the last part, it finally attempts to clarify whether the electronic management system of the constitutional process integrates a starting point, or a point of arrival, in the process of technological innovation of the Court.