Tutela del benessere animale

Section III of the Council of State, in an order of July 2023, states that article 9 of the Constitution, as amended, has effectively included the protection of animals among the so-called ‘supreme principles’; consequently, animal’s interests (and in particular their loss of life) can be affected only following a rigorous evaluation of the necessity and proportionality of the measure to be adopted, in particular when the human interest at stake is purely economic.