The Italian Draft Law on the \u2018Provisions Concerning the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage\u2019

Intangible cultural heritage in Italy is still in need of a unified approach, capable of providing reliable criteria for identifying its assets and for indicating timescales and means by which they should be safeguarded. In the continued absence of up-to-date, ad hoc state legislation (since the content of those laws which do implement international Conventions is too generic in nature to be sufficiently effective), the Regions have proceeded to act in a somewhat scattered manner, giving rise to an extremely fragmented and very disorderly regulatory framework. The draft law N. 4486, "Provisions Concerning the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage", presented on 12th May 2017 at the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic - as the result of the work of an interdisciplinary and inter-university research team coordinated by Marco Giampieretti, who has drafted the final text with the collaboration of Simona Pinton - seeks to fill the serious void that exists in Italian legal system by aligning it to the principles of international and European law, by redirecting the relevant State and Regional legislation, and by satisfying the fundamental requirements of the national community

Complexity and multidisciplinarity of food law. A dialogue with the work of Andreas Meisterernst

Food law is a complex and problematic subject with many different connections to several areas of law. All these aspects are described in detail by Andreas Meisterernst in his books on food law, which are an interesting anthology of issues for anyone wishing to explore the problems of food law at both national and European level. Alongside the classic food law topics of consumer protection, rather than the issue of the protection of products of guaranteed origin, new topics are being developed, such as, for example, issues related to novel foods and the need to ensure safe food sources for consumers that are also ecologically sustainabl

Bens culturais e aquisição a “non domino” = Cultural assets and a “non domino” acquisition

- Traduzido por: Nevita Franca Luna; Ílina Cordeiro Ponte