The Italian parliament has approved a bill defining distributed ledger technologies (DLT) such as blockchain, Feb. 7.

On January 23, 2019, the Italian Senate Committee approved an amendment regarding blockchain technology, which is a first for the country.

Earlier cover news on Italy introduce first blockchain related bill here.

Earlier the Italian Government published a list of the country’s top 30 Blockchain experts, in order to provide free advice to authorities concerning ‘national strategy on distributed register and blockchain technologies’.

With 275 votes in favor, 206 against and 27 abstentions, the bill dubbed “Semplificazioni” has moved forward. The Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale will now define the technical criteria that smart contracts will have to comply with in order to have legal validity.

a member of the Italian Parliament Maria Laura Mantovani, the Movimento 5 Stelle party, told

“Italy that a favorable use case for blockchain is its application in online voting.”

According to Mantovani, noted that there are not projects in place to implement such systems.

The M5S party is currently looking for researchers able to prove the efficacy of blockchain for voting.

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