Another postponement on the return to the rules of the dehors, after the free all at the time of Covid. In spite of the draft decree on which the government is at work, which should reform the rules on the external spaces of bars, clubs and restaurants, there is a further extension on the deregulation of the outdoor tables, postponed from time to time since 2020 – when it was established to encourage anti -contagion distancing during the pandemic.
With an amendment to the simplification bill, the government postponed the last deadline of the regime with less restrictions until 30 June 2027, which fell at the end of the year.
The extension on the dehors
The modification was presented by the speaker to the bill on the simplifications of economic activities, the examination of the Senate. In addition to extending the rules on the outdoor and a half outdoor tables, with the amendment the government also has a further year to implement the delegation for the revision on the dehors, established by the competition law.
In this way, the term of the legislative decree on the “reorganization and coordination of the rules on the granting of spaces and public areas of cultural or landscape interest for public businesses will fall on 31 December 2026.
The adoption of the same decree should have been by December 16, 2025, that is, no more than a year after the entry into force of the annual competition law.
The rules on outdoor tables
On the outdoor tables, the reform on which the majority seemed to be at the last details before the examination of the ministers and the process in Parliament was awaited.
The draft of the decree provided for a narrowing of the dehors’ self -containing shirts, but at the same time reducing the cases for which to ask for the clearance from the superintendencies, when the commercial exercise is in urban spaces in front of national monuments, churches or other cultural assets representative of the place.
In the absence of proximity requirements and the identity value of the monuments, the text should provide for greater decision -making autonomy on the concessions of employment of public land by the Municipalities.
What will be the works to reserve a special protection will be established by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, which within 60 days from the entry into force of the decree will have to draw up the lists, following the stringent criteria of the provision.
The lists will then be published by each municipality concerned on their institutional website.
Parameters and constraints may however be established by the local administrations in concert with the territorial offices of the Ministry, and then be received by regulation or resolution of the council. Measures that imply automatic authorization, without request from the owner of the bar and restaurant.
However, the current draft could lead to a short circuit, excluding other activities from the category of public exercises, such as a ice cream shop or a florist, which instead would return to the rules on the pre-covid dehors.
