Legislation by the Ordinary Statute Regions: Powers and subjects

The paper examines prevailing doctrine and court rulings on regional legislation. First, it focuses on the issues and the difficulties of defining regional legislative and regulatory powers. Second, it analyses the laws and regulations enacted to assess the impact of the reforms on the way in which the Ordinary Regions concretely exercise their legislative and regulatory powers. Its purpose is to see whether, and if so to what extent, the concept of the Regions as political-legislative bodies pursued by the 1948 Constituent Assembly, and subsequently the 2001 constitutional reform, has been implemented.