Overview
- The Court’s ruling No. 204/2025 leaves the Tuscan framework largely intact but strikes specific provisions as exceeding regional powers.
- Article 2 is unconstitutional for fixing access criteria by anchoring them to past Constitutional Court rulings, intruding on civil and criminal matters reserved to the state.
- Portions of Articles 4, 5 and 6 fall, including the phrase allowing a request by “a delegate” and rigid deadlines and implementation rules that overreach procedural regulation.
- Article 7 is partly voided for imposing support obligations that touch essential levels of care and for language treating the act as a suspendable “treatment,” which the Court says mischaracterizes assisted suicide.
- The judgment confirms regions may set organizational procedures within health protection, requires Tuscany to amend the struck parts, and offers guidance relevant to Sardinia’s similar law the government intends to contest.