Acceso usuarios
Andrea Panzarola
Le c.d. Autorità indipendenti hanno fra l'altro il potere di irrogare sanzioni amministrative nei confronti di chi sia reso responsabile della violazione delle regole relative alle materie affidate alla loro cura. Il soggetto sanzionato può proporre un giudizio di opposizione dinanzi al giudice amministrativo o a quello ordinario. La circostanza che tale giudizio abbia ad oggetto l'accertamento negativo della pretesa sanzionel saggio- della applicabilità della disciplina generale in punto di interruzione della prescrizione (artt. 2943 ss. c.c.) in dipendenza della introduzione di un giudizio civile.
An independent Authority is a public body which makes its own decisions under the terms of its founding law, procedures and regulations. It has numerous powers, the most important of which concern the repression of unfair practices and unlawful acts. The administrative fines for infringements of these rules are assessed and imposed by a decision of an independent authority. Appeals against the authority's decisions can be lodged with the Regional Administrative Court or civil Courts. Since in this type of case the plaintiff often seeks a declaration (in the negative form) to the effect that he is under non duty to the defendant (an independent authority), the question then arises: to what extent may the defendant invoke the principle of interruption of the statue of limitations resulting from article 2943 of the Civil Code (according to which the period of limitation is interrupted by the filing of an action in court)? In this area, efforts to deal with this issue are often frustrated by an absence of consensus, both normative and empirical. The paper proposes a solution to this question.
