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From December 24 to January 6, when Decree Law December 18 n. 172, self-certification will always be necessary to travel the days in which the red zone will be in force, while in the orange zone it will be necessary only if you have to travel outside your municipality (or your region) or travel during curfew hours . But the conjunction of the red zone rules and the exceptions for two people plus anyone under 18 means that self-certification will also be required to leave the house to visit family or for Christmas lunch with friends.
The self-certified but no names Christmas lunch and the other strange rules of the 2020 Christmas Decree
However, there is one thing: in the self-declaration form that can be downloaded from the website of the Ministry of the Interior, it will not be necessary to indicate the person or family that welcomes the person who moves and therefore must fill it in. But you must indicate the departure and arrival directions. All this is necessary based on the exemption for family and friends included in the decree, which also allows on December 24, 25, 26 and 27, January 31 and 1, 2, 3 and 5 and 6 to leave the house to visit a relative or friend in the company of another person (and children under 14 and disabled people are not included in the total calculation).
To travel both on foot and by car on the days when the red zone was proclaimed, the movement must always be justified. And therefore also the Christmas lunch that, following the letter of the regulations, it is possible to organize, will be with self-certification. And one of the “curiosities” of the conjunction of the new regulations is, in fact, that you will not have to indicate the name of the person or family that will host us by the privacy law, but to allow any ex post control to the police it will be necessary. write the destination address. Which, if you go as guests in a single-family house, will coincide with the name of the person who will host us. If it is a skyscraper, it will be quite difficult for the police to control something.
Not only. The letter of the law says that family members can take with them, but only if they are under 14 or disabled. This means that a family with two children, one 13 years old and the other 15 years old, can go to the grandparents Christmas lunch but will have to leave the 15 year old (or one of the two parents) at home. Or, simply, that we will organize ourselves by leaving with two cars or two different means of transport to reach the same destination. But if there are three children and only one is under the age of fourteen, it will be very difficult to find a way out.
The new self-certification will be practically identical to the one that accompanied the Dpcm of December 3, except for the exclusion in the text of the region to which it is addressed because it is prohibited by the new regulation. The sanctions for any infringement have been confirmed and can also be challenged in the days after the control. On days considered orange, residents of a municipality with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants may also travel to neighboring municipalities, within a 30-kilometer radius. One rule, however, for which the same exceptions explained in the decree are provided, is to move within your region to visit family or friends once a day. The new provision developed by Palazzo Chigi, therefore, is much less strict than was feared on the eve, although it confirms the curfew from 22 to 5, extended to 7 January 1.
Dinner and Veglione are not authorized but possible
But is dinner on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve allowed? In theory, at the times when dinner is usually in force, a curfew is in force, which begins at 10 p.m. Therefore, to respect the provisions of the DL, it would be necessary to start and end in advance to be able to return home. within that hour. But there are two other factors to consider. The first is that home controls are not possible because the home is inviolable, unless the police have a well-founded suspicion that a crime is being committed in the home. So if there is no screaming, as they say, no one will be able to come check it out.
Secondly, it should be noted that the rule that establishes that the return home is always possible at any time (justifying it) remains in force. So here you can go home even during curfew hours using the rule and filling out the self-certification and handing it in in the event of a police lockdown for Christmas and New Year’s checks. If you don’t want to risk violating curfew in any case, you can simply arrive at your friend or relative’s house before 10 p.m. and wait there at 5 a.m. (or 7 a.m. on January 1) to go home. .
However, there are many recommendations that should be followed for dinner, New Year’s Eve and obviously also for Christmas and New Year’s lunch. The first is to restrict the table to cohabitants, although there is a government dispensation that allows violating it. The second is to use masks if you are at home with people who do not live together, taking them off only when you eat. It is also necessary to respect social distancing both when you are not at the table and during meals. It is also advisable to ventilate the rooms several times and wash your hands frequently. Buffets are not recommended, in any case it is necessary to avoid the use of the same cutlery by the guests. The same goes for plates and glasses that must be unique to each guest. It might also be helpful to separate the tables between children and the elderly.
Avoidable divisions and gaps in Decree Law December 18 n. 172
Il Messaggero also lists today other ways to circumvent the prohibitions and loopholes of Decree Law December 18 n. 172. For example, if trips are allowed to a single private home, it is possible to arrive with different cars but with only two occupants: in this way there is no more or less risk (as long as they are in the same region). In fact, the text of the Decree Law is clear:
During the days between December 24, 2020 and January 6, 2021, it is also possible to move to a single private home, located in the same region, once a day, in a period of time between 05:00 and 22:00. , and within the limit of two people, beyond those who already live there, in addition to those under 14 years of age over whom they exercise parental authority and disabled or not self-sufficient people who live together.
And as for the controls, it should be remembered that Conte himself excluded those in private homes: “A liberal-democratic system does not send the Police to the house, unless there is a flagrant crime,” Conte explained in a direct response to the Questions from journalists about the decree – we do not enter the homes of Italians, it is a decree conceived as a strong limit to circulation. It comes out with self-certification ”. And then, the newspaper explains, how can it be verified that I am going first to someone and then to someone else if during the first trip they have not stopped me (and therefore I have not been forced to indicate the destination address)? Therefore, it is evident that more than the controls, “the appeal is aimed at the responsibility of the citizens,” Fabrizio Pregliasco, the virologist at the University of Milan, tells Messaggero, “on the other hand, there is no manual that allows a precise definition of the unique measures “. And again, adds Agostino Miozzo, coordinator of the CTS, “we know how difficult it is to manage concessions, but we had to find a balance that, precarious as it was, was also right. We need responsibility.”
Self-certification Christmas 2020: how to complete
It should be noted that self-certification will also be used to go to mass. Responding yesterday to requests for clarification from fellow journalists related to the Decree-Law of December 18, 2020, the Director of the National Office of Social Communications of the Italian Episcopal Conference, Vincenzo Corrado, declared the following: “The Decree-Law No. 172, which contains new urgent provisions to address the health risks associated with the spread of the COVID-19 virus, introduces, as it is now known, some limitations for travel during the Christmas period, from December 24, 2020 to December 6, January 2021. On December 24, 25, 26, 27, 31, 2020 and January 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 2021, the measures provided for the so-called “red zones”, listed in the Article 3 of the Decree of the Prime Minister of December 3. On December 28, 29, on December 30, 2020 and January 4, 2021, the measures provided for the so-called “orange areas”, listed in the art. 2 of the Prim Decree er Minister of last December 3 “.
The General Secretariat of the CEI recalls what was indicated by the Permanent Episcopal Council in the final communiqué of the extraordinary session of December 1: “It will be the responsibility of the bishops to suggest to the parish priests that they ‘guide’ the faithful to a well-distributed presence, recalling the richness of the liturgy for Christmas that offers several possibilities: Evening Mass on the eve, at night, at dawn and in the day. For the Mass at night it will be necessary to foresee the beginning and the duration of the celebration on a schedule compatible with the so-called ‘curfew’ “, that is to say within 10 pm. In self-certification, the signer must declare that his movement is determined by:
- labor needs;
- health reasons;
- other reasons allowed by current regulations or by decrees, ordinances and other measures mentioned above that define the measures to prevent the spread of infection;
It will also be necessary to indicate in the self-certification form: your usual address, a valid telephone contact, that is not subject to the quarantine measure or that has not tested positive for Covid-19 (except for movements ordered by the health authorities), to be “aware of the criminal consequences provided for in the event of false statements to a public official” regulated by article 495 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. What risks do those who are not in good position have? First, a fine of between 400 and a thousand euros, as required by the decree.
