Italy
Accesso civico generalizzato
D.lgs. 25 maggio 2016, n. 97
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.
The clock
30 calendar days
30 days to decide; silence is refusal (silenzio-diniego) for accesso civico generalizzato.
The Aeronautica Militare publishes annual OVNI sighting summaries on its own site, 1972 onward — check there before filing at all.
Reading the statute itself
The text of this one is not reproduced here: foreign legislation is published under its own country’s copyright rules, so it is linked instead. Everything on this page — the deadline, the appeal path, the fee standard — is Aletheca’s summary of that text, and the official source is one click away.
If they refuse
- Appeal deadline
- Not specified
- Appeal route
- Riesame by the authority's transparency officer (RPCT), decided in 20 days, then ricorso to the TAR.
- Litigation
- TAR — the regional administrative tribunal.
Fees and expedition
Fee-waiver standard
Free apart from reproduction costs.
Aletheca argues this on every request it files here. A service that publishes every page it receives, free, to a public archive has an unusually strong showing — considerably stronger than a private requester’s.
Exemptions it allows
- Art. 5-bis Sicurezza nazionale e difesa
- Art. 5-bis Sicurezza pubblica e ordine pubblico
- Protezione dei dati personali