Italy

Italy

Approves further changes to the FDI screening regime

20 May 2022

On 20 May 2022, the Italian Parliament adopted Law 51/2022 to approve with amendments the Government's Law-Decree 21/2022 laying down urgent measures to counter the economic and humanitarian effects of the Ukrainian crisis. The Law introduces a number of changes to the foreign investment review regime in Italy. Among the main ones are: - the expansion of the mandatory notification process to the incorporation of new legal entities which carry out activities in strategic sectors and where non-EU individuals or entities holds more than 10 per cent of the capital or voting rights; - the expansion of the definition of non-EU individual or entity.