This paper analyses the application of certain rules of regulatory simplification, verified in light of the case study represented by the recently approved Italian Public Contracts Code. In the first part, it focuses on the special role of simplifying administrative language and rules concerning public administration as a fundamental junction in the dialectic between the exercise of public power and the concrete exercise of citizens’ democratic rights. The purpose is to highlight the peculiar relevance of regulatory simplification policies applied to provisions governing public administration activity. In the second part, the paper examines the draughting technique of the new Public Contracts Code enacted in Italy with Legislative Decree No. 36/2023. It describes its origins and its key features with respect to the goals of regulatory simplification and improvement of clarity, also in light of the corrective decree of 2024. The paper lays also out some critical observations on the design of the reform.