1) Provisions regarding the issuing of special temporary residence permits for humanitarian needs as well as regarding international protection and immigration;
2) Provisions regarding public safety, prevention and fight against terrorism and mafia crime;
3) Provisions for the functionality of the Ministry of the Interior as well as on the organization and functioning of the national agency for the administration and destination of assets seized and confiscated from organized crime;
4) Financial and final provisions.
Here are the highlights:
Immigration
– permits "for humanitarian reasons" they are replaced by those "for medical care", "for acts of particular civil value" or when "the country to which the foreigner should return is in a situation of contingent and exceptional calamity that does not allow the return and stay in safe conditions".
– the order of denial or revocation of temporary residence permits for humanitarian needs “is not appealable”. The deadline for appealing to the Supreme Court is 30 days.
– the maximum length of detention of foreigners in repatriation detention centres has doubled, from 90 to 180 days.
– to ensure “the timely execution of works for the construction, completion, adaptation and restructuring” of the CPRs, “for a period not exceeding three years from the date of entry into force of the decree and for works of an amount lower than the threshold of community relevance, recourse to the negotiated procedure is authorised without prior publication of the tender notice”.
– the applicant may be detained, for the time strictly necessary, and in any case not exceeding 30 days, in special premises at the facilities referred to in Article 10 ter of Legislative Decree 25 July 1998 number 286″ (the so-called hotspots) “for the determination and verification of identity and citizenship”.
– In case of expulsion, if there are no places available in the CPRs, "the justice of the peace, upon request of the police commissioner, can authorize the temporary stay of the foreigner, until the validation procedure is defined, in different and suitable structures available to the public security authority".
– the Repatriation Fund has increased by 500 thousand euros for 2018, by 1,500,000 euros for 2019 and by 1,500,000 euros for 2020".
– denial and revocation of international protection they are also foreseen for the crimes of sexual violence, violence or threats to a public official, personal injury, mutilation and injury to the female genital organs, theft aggravated by the use of weapons or narcotics.
– Sprar only welcomes holders of international protection or unaccompanied foreign minors: "asylum seekers present in the System on the date of entry into force of the decree will remain in reception until the expiry of the ongoing project, already financed".
– Italian citizenship It is revoked in the event of a final conviction for terrorism crimes.
Safety
– the identification data shown in the identity document exhibited by the person renting a vehicle are transmitted to the Data Processing Center of the police force for "automatic comparison with those stored therein, concerning measures of the judicial authority or the public security authority, or reports entered by the police forces for the purposes of preventing and repressing terrorism". The data are stored for a period of time not exceeding 7 days.
– the staff of the local police force of centers with over 100 thousand inhabitants "when proceeding with the control and identification of people" has access to the data processing center of the police force.
– Municipalities with over 100 thousand inhabitants they can proceed with the testing of "common electrical impulse weapons" (the so-called tasers, ed.) as departmental equipment for the local police force.
– the ban on access to places where sporting events take place, it can also be adopted against individuals suspected of terrorism.
– the ban can be extended also to “health facilities” and “areas intended for the holding of fairs, markets, public shows”.
– assets confiscated from organised crime “which cannot be allocated or transferred for purposes of public interest are earmarked for sale by order of the Agency”.
