Maturity 2022, mandatory masks: Tar Lazio decision

Also for the maturity 2022 students will have to wear masks. The Lazio TAR, with a sentence filed today, has in fact rejected the appeal proposed by Codacons, which challenged the order of the Ministry of Health of 28 April last and raised the question of the constitutionality of the decree law n. 24 of 2022, converted into law, which establishes that the use of masks, among others, continues to be mandatory for students until 31 August next. The ruling clarified that the ordinance of the ministry of health of 28 April 2022 did not actually provide for the obligation of masks for students, which was then introduced by the legislative provision. The administrative judges underlined that any anticipation of the termination of this obligation requires “a specific decree-law, given the inability of a ministerial order to dispose in a different sense to the provisions of a specific legislative provision, in the absence of a provision that expressly allows it “, an evaluation left to” the exclusive responsibility for the choice of legislative policy in the specific matter. ” . 24 of 2022.