Because in Novartis there is snorting on the juridical language of the Sostegni-ter decree
What a Novartis Italia manager wrote on Linkedin
There are managers who rant behind closed doors about the abstruse and labyrinthine legal issue of decrees and managers who do not hesitate to expose themselves on social media to support what other colleagues say in private.
A post written on Linkedin by a manager grappling with the Support decree law is therefore noteworthy.
Below is the text posted on Linkedin by Jessica Nardin , Public Affairs & Sustainability Manager at Novartis:
Post-controversial alert: this time on the quality of the laws
For exactly 48 hours I have been trying to extract meaning from Article 21 of the DL Sostegni-ter, an article concerning "Measures in the field of electronic dossier and governance of digital health". Which for heaven's sake, I don't have the optimism to think it's an easy thing.
But the Legislator encourages me to read with an injection of confidence, stating in the premise that the objective of the law is "to ensure simplification, greater efficiency and speed of action". Oh. Finally, I say, we didn't understand anything, I think.
I begin to read. On the 10th line I get lost. There are already 16 regulatory references.
I start over. I try to understand the structure of the text to find the head and tail.
The article unfolds – it seems to me – in 3 paragraphs-monstre: the first that modifies Article 12 of Legislative Decree 179/2012 in 24 points – it seems to me – repealing, integrating, modifying so deeply that, in the end, the Art 12 of Legislative Decree 179/2012 would not recognize him even his mother.
The other two paragraphs, more modestly, are limited to modifying other articles, other provisions in only 4 points.
2585 words.
Over 100 normative references – it seems to me -, direct, indirect, evoked.
30 pages of the Research Department dossier.
18 linked documents.
1 box for in-depth analysis of primary standards.
I start all over again. I call consultants and colleagues. I invest in it for an afternoon. Then one morning. But yes, this is my job. They pay me (also) for it.
They pay me to try to understand a rule that will impact the life of every citizen.
Citizens in fact.
That maybe bakers, electricians, dentists, teachers do work and they don't pay them if they take two days to try to understand a law.
Even if that law is made for them.
Even if it would be their right to be able to understand it.
Indeed – he thinks a little – it would be their right to contribute to forming that law.
And in short, nothing. I go back to study.
"It is a pity that the quality of the standards does not match their quantity".
Sabino Cassese
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/perche-in-novartis-si-sbuffa-sul-giuridichese-del-decreto-sostegni-ter/ on Mon, 07 Feb 2022 15:00:11 +0000.