Overview

• The Constitutional Court declared the Florence Tribunal’s constitutional question on article 579 inadmissible due to insufficient demonstration of pharmacological self-administration device availability
• Judges found that the tribunal failed to involve central scientific bodies like the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in verifying whether such devices exist
• Article 579’s prohibition on third-party drug administration in assisted suicide remains intact, reinforcing that only patients may self-administer lethal medications
• The ruling emphasizes the Servizio Sanitario Nazionale’s obligation to procure and assist eligible patients with voice- or eye-controlled infusion devices when those tools are available
• The Associazione Luca Coscioni plans to return to the Florence Tribunal to prompt the national verification of device availability as ordered by the court