Qualità e quantità delle fonti regionali: novità e conferme dopo la riforma del Titolo V della Costituzione

The question that this contribution deals with is whether the Regions, urged by the need for renewal that emerged in the Nineties following the reforms, did or did not renew the contents of their laws and made room for quality. Can it be stated that, in general, compared to the first regionalization phase, the regional laws produced after the reform have characteristics that are substantially and qualitatively new? In order to answer this question, considering the available data, some more specific questions are discussed. The first concerns the quantitative and qualitative profile, namely whether after the reform the number of regional laws increased or decreased and what type of regional laws were produced. The second concerns the issue as to whether any regional residual legislative power was developed. This was a qualifying novelty of the reform that, we suppose, aimed at strengthening the substantial nature of regional laws. The third issue concerns the legislative environment and hence the boundaries within which the new regional legislation developed. On the basis of the analysis of the data, it can be stated that the effect of the administrative and constitutional reforms was to strengthen the regional sources and, in general, the figure of the region as a political and legislative body, albeit with reference only to a portion of the concrete areas of competence.