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Economic relations

Constitution of the Italian Republic

Article 43

For purposes of general utility, the law may establish that specific enterprises or categories of enterprises, related to essential public services, energy sources or monopoly situations and of overriding general interest, be reserved ex ante or transferred, by means of expropriation and subject to compensation, to the State, to public entities, or to workers’ or users’ associations.

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