Italian administrative law

The establishment of administrative tribunals of first instance in the regional district is required by the Constitution of Italy (Art. 125). However, the tribunals were only established on 6 December 1971, after the disappearance of the jurisdiction of the Provincial Administrative Councils, which had been declared unconstitutional.

The 1971 law did not limit itself to filling the void created in the legal system by the councils' abolition. The law established jurisdictional bodies with limited competence in relation to entities and matters, but has generalized the double degree in administrative jurisdiction. On every act of any public administration (including the state one), the TAR (Regional Administrative Court) now judges in the first instance, while the Council of State (which until the establishment of the regional courts normally judged in a single instance) is called to rule only on appeal.^[3]