September 2008
Italian class action
Class Action is regulated by art. 140 bis of the Italian consumers' code and will be in force from 1 January 2009.
May 2008
Italy introduces consumer class actions
Budget law 24 December 2007, n. 244 introduces, for the first time into Italian law system, a type of class action (called "azione collettiva risarcitoria") for awards of compensatory damages or payments of amounts to multiple individual users or consumers.
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