"Sunset rules" as instruments of better regulation. A possible balance between parliamentary centrality in emergency periods and the objective of regulatory simplification

Abstract

The health emergency caused by Covid-19 has also had an impact, as the italian constitutionalist doctrine has shown in recent months, on the system of sources and the balance between constitutional bodies. The aim of the work is to analyse a regulatory technique often used in the United Kingdom, the so-called sunset clauses, highlighting both its positive and negative aspects and its possible applicability to the Italian system.
The aim, therefore, is to investigate not only what kind of impact sunset clauses can produce in an emergency period, but also in a long term perspective (i.e. beyond the same), as an effective tool for improving the quality of legislation.