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  "id": "it-foia",
  "name": "Accesso civico generalizzato",
  "short_name": "FOIA (d.lgs. 97/2016)",
  "citation": "D.lgs. 25 maggio 2016, n. 97",
  "jurisdiction": "foreign",
  "state": null,
  "state_name": null,
  "country": "Italy",
  "country_code": "IT",
  "url": "https://aletheca.com/laws/it-foia",
  "description": "Italy's 'FOIA', grafted onto the transparency decree 33/2013. Three access regimes coexist — documentale (241/1990), civico semplice, civico generalizzato — and a request should name the generalizzato one explicitly.",
  "statutory_days": 30,
  "business_days": false,
  "statutory_text": "30 days to decide; silence is refusal (silenzio-diniego) for accesso civico generalizzato.",
  "appeal_deadline_days": null,
  "appeal_basis": null,
  "appeal_process": "Riesame by the authority's transparency officer (RPCT), decided in 20 days, then ricorso to the TAR.",
  "litigation": "TAR — the regional administrative tribunal.",
  "fee_waiver_standard": "Free apart from reproduction costs.",
  "expedited_criteria": [],
  "exemptions": [
    "Art. 5-bis Sicurezza nazionale e difesa",
    "Art. 5-bis Sicurezza pubblica e ordine pubblico",
    "Protezione dei dati personali"
  ],
  "portal": null,
  "turnaround_notes": "The Aeronautica Militare publishes annual OVNI sighting summaries on its own site, 1972 onward — check there before filing at all.",
  "quirks": null,
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "Normattiva — D.lgs. 25 maggio 2016, n. 97",
      "url": "https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:decreto.legislativo:2016-05-25;97",
      "status": "verified",
      "checked_at": "2026-08-31"
    }
  ],
  "text": null,
  "text_note": null,
  "agencies": [
    {
      "slug": "it-aeronautica",
      "name": "Italian Air Force",
      "local_name": "Aeronautica Militare",
      "abbr": "AM",
      "jurisdiction": "foreign",
      "state": null,
      "state_name": null,
      "country": "Italy",
      "country_code": "IT",
      "category": "defense",
      "agency_type": "armed_forces",
      "parent": null,
      "parent_name": "Ministero della Difesa",
      "url": "https://aletheca.com/agencies/it-aeronautica",
      "website": "https://www.aeronautica.difesa.it",
      "reading_room": "https://www.aeronautica.difesa.it/home/ovni/",
      "subject_to_foia": true,
      "law": {
        "id": "it-foia",
        "citation": "D.lgs. 25 maggio 2016, n. 97",
        "statutory_days": 30,
        "business_days": false,
        "appeal_deadline_days": null
      },
      "intake": [
        {
          "channel": "portal",
          "detail": "https://www.aeronautica.difesa.it/home/ovni/",
          "label": "OVNI page — annual summaries and reporting instructions",
          "verified": true,
          "verification": "verified",
          "verification_source": null,
          "last_checked": null,
          "automatable": false,
          "preferred": false,
          "reliability": null,
          "instructions": null
        },
        {
          "channel": "mail",
          "detail": "Stato Maggiore Aeronautica — Reparto Generale Sicurezza, Viale dell'Università 4, 00185 Roma",
          "label": "Postal mail",
          "verified": false,
          "verification": "unverified",
          "verification_source": null,
          "last_checked": null,
          "automatable": false,
          "preferred": false,
          "reliability": null,
          "instructions": null
        }
      ],
      "submission_readiness": null,
      "holdings": [
        "Annual OVNI sighting summaries published since 1972 on the Air Force's own site",
        "Investigation files of the Reparto Generale Sicurezza, Italy's designated UFO-report collector since 1978",
        "Sighting reports lodged through Carabinieri stations"
      ],
      "tips": [
        "The annual summaries are already public — download them from the OVNI page before filing an accesso civico request for the underlying files.",
        "Sightings are reported on the official form through the nearest Carabinieri station; the Air Force investigates for flight safety."
      ],
      "tracking": "Protocol number issued on registered correspondence.",
      "confidence": "high",
      "source": "Hand-compiled international layer. Bodies and statutes are real; contact routes are inferred unless marked verified, and none has yet been proven by a delivered letter."
    }
  ]
}