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May 10, 2021 The Minister of Justice, Marta Cartabia, in the meeting in the Chamber with members and group leaders of the Justice Commissions, underlined how: "The Government is playing all the Recovery on the duration of the trials, not just the 2.7 billion of the Pnrr destined for justice, but the 191 billion destined for the entire Italian economic and social revival ".

Furthermore, the Keeper of Seals highlighted that: "Whoever shuns change will have to assume the responsibility of missing such a decisive opportunity for everyone. The company is titanic. Nobody can do it without the contribution, the commitment, the enthusiasm, everyone's willingness, both politically and judicially. But we have to do it ". 

Absolute necessity is that of

both for those waiting for sentences and for those relating to the approval of the three delegation laws, Cartabia has in fact recalled that by the end of 2021 the delegation laws for the reform of the civil, criminal and Council proceedings must be approved Superior of the Judiciary. In exchange for European funding, Italy undertook both to cut the timing of sentences and to approve the three delegated reform laws by the end of the year.

The justice reform, the minister recalled, is also fundamental for the

. The European Commission "has imposed certain conditions on the Italian government to obtain Next Generation EU funds. As regards Justice, the objectives are clear - explained Cartabia - in five years we must reduce the time for civil judgments by 40% and by 25 % those of criminal judgments. They are really ambitious goals ".

The Keeper of Seals made a reminder to all the protagonists of the reform: "I would also like the responsibility of all the actors in the world of justice - prosecutors, judges, lawyers - to be clear with respect to these objectives: if we do not accept to change our habits, our way of carrying out our institutional and professional tasks, if we resist the changes, we will miss the objectives that the Commission requires of us as regards the duration of the processes, and therefore Italy will have to return the impressive amount that Europe is about to put into the economic and social life of the country ". 

As for the

 Cartabia stated: "The excessive duration of the trials determines two dysfunctions, which constitute violations of constitutional and European principles: the first is that of the excessive number of trials that end with the prescription, repeatedly reproached us by many international monitoring bodies . With the statute of limitations, the victims' demand for justice remains frustrated. With the statute of limitations due to excessively protracted trials, the state fails in its task of ensuring the administration of justice. "