Lightning from the blue on the parliamentary path of the Maneuver. In fact, the text could find a place for the liberalization of regulated professions, pharmacists no longer excluded. This was foreseen by an amendment which, according to some sources, would be among those five or six interventions agreed by the majority and the opposition in order to ensure a lightning-fast path to the conversion of the decree into law. The draft text circulated yesterday, in particular, establishes that "access to the professions and their exercise is based on the freedom of enterprise" and "the restrictions on the subject" provided for by the current legislation "are repealed six months after the entry into force of this law. By restrictions, the amendment continues, we mean, among other things, "the limitation of the number of persons entitled to practice a certain profession throughout the territory of the State", "the attribution of licenses or authorizations to exercise a profession only where there is a need according to the administrative authority», the ban on the exercise «outside a certain geographical area or the authorization only within» a certain zone, the imposition «of minimum distances between the locations of offices", the prohibition of operating in several offices or in several areas, "the imposition of professional requirements in relation to the ownership of company shares", the imposition of minimum prices or commissions for the supply of goods and services and so on . In any case, "individual professions" can be excluded from liberalization for reasons relating to the protection of the public interest, through a decree of the Prime Minister on a proposal from the ministries of Justice and Economic Development in concert with Economy and Finance, to be issued by six months after publication of the law. At the moment there are no official comments from the acronyms that represent the world of pharmacy but the "rumors" that arrive reveal a lot of concern. The imperative with which the parliamentary process of the decree was launched, in fact, is to hurry to avoid further market turbulence, so much so that the vote in the Senate is scheduled for tomorrow and the day after tomorrow in the Chamber.

Pharmacist33 – 14 July 2011

The Orders are holding back liberalisation

ROME
The Orders will not be abolished. The market of professions will remain as it is, at least as regards the categories regulated by a state exam. The embankment - the discipline of "article 33, fifth paragraph, of the Constitution" - was raised yesterday evening thanks to the mediation of the president of the Senate, Renato Schifani.
After a long meeting at Palazzo Madama, with the Minister of the Economy, Giulio Tremonti, the Minister for Regional Affairs, Raffaele Fitto, the Minister for Economic Development, Paolo Romani and the rapporteur on the corrective measures, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, the highly contested amendment which introduced a weighty article 39-bis entitled "Liberalization of professional and business activities" into the text of the maneuver was withdrawn, while a paragraph 1-bis of article 29 was reformulated which grants, generically, to the Government the burden of formulating the categories «reform proposals in the field of liberalisation». The new amendment also contains a sort of safeguard clause: after 8 months from the entry into force of the manoeuvre, evidently