Diritto Pubblico Comparato ed Europeo

Sommario

1. Introduzione. – 2. L’irrilevanza delle immunità di diritto pubblico interno in caso di criminiinternazionali: la Convenzione per la repressione e punizione del crimine di genocidio. – 3. Segue: l’art. 27dello Statuto di Roma e il contenuto degli obblighi degli Stati contraenti. – 4. Il problema della costituzionalitàdell’art. 27: inapplicabilità dell’art. 11 Cost. – 5. Segue: difficoltà derivanti dall’eventuale ricorso all’art. 10, c.1, Cost. – 6. Necessità di una legge di revisione costituzionale. Possibile contenuto di tale legge. – 7.Osservazioni conclusive sull’adattamento del diritto interno allo Statuto di Roma.

Abstract

Art. 27 of the Rome Statute for the establishment of the International Criminal Court stipulates that the official capacity of a person does not relieve this person of criminal responsibility and that immunities or other special procedures provided for under national or international law do not bar the Court from exercising its criminal jurisdiction. The question therefore arises of whether this Article is consistent with the provisions of the Italian Constitution that confer immunities on senior State officials and members of Parliament. The Author argues that neither Art. 10, par. 1, nor Article 11 of the Italian Constitution can enable Art. 27 to derogate from constitutional provisions on immunities. She therefore submits that a constitutional amendment is needed. As other provisions of the Rome Statute may prove to be inconsistent with the Italian Constitution, the author suggests that Parliament should pass a constitutional law consisting of a single provision.This provision could authorise all the constitutional changes that prove necessary for the implementation of the ICC Statute. This solution, to some extent already adopted in France and also propounded in Belgium by the Conseil d’Etat, commends itself in that it would give the Rome Statute a strong constitutional basis. In addition it would not make it necessary for Parliament tounder take an in-depth examination of all the constitutional provisions that need to be revised.