Forthcoming policy developments

Law 167/2025 ‘Measures for regulatory simplification and the improvement of the quality of legislation, and delegations to the Government for simplification, reorganization, and restructuring in certain matters’, which entered into force on 29 November 2025, introduced the obligation to carry out a Generational Impact Assessment (GIA). Specifically, Article 4 of the aforementioned Law, in establishing that the laws of the Republic are oriented towards the promotion of intergenerational equity, including for the protection of future generations, introduces the GIA as an informational tool aimed at the ex-ante analysis of Government regulatory acts – excluding law-decrees – in order to assess the environmental and/or social effects and repercussions on young people and future generations arising from such measures, with particular attention to intergenerational equity. The GIA must be carried out as part of the regulatory impact analysis. In order to monitor the promotion of intergenerational equity among future generations in legislative activity, Article 5 of the same Law establishes, within the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the National Observatory for the Generational Impact of Laws.

Ongoing debates

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