Groningen Centre for Health Law

In November 2023, an Italian regional Ethics Committee – whose opinion is decisive in the PAD access procedure – sought clarifications on the meaning of the life-sustaining treatment requirement by submitting an interpretative query to the Italian National Bioethics Committee (CNB).

On February 15, 2025, the Regional Council of Tuscany in Italy approved a legislative proposal regulating “medically assisted voluntary death” at the regional level, more commonly known as “assisted suicide”. With this law, Tuscany became the first Italian region to establish a local legal framework for assisted suicide while awaiting the enactment of national legislation - a framework that, despite numerous attempts, has never been approved.