Milan, 20 May (LaPresse) – The Constitutional Court confirms that the requirement for life support treatment does not conflict with the Constitution. In order no. 66, filed today, the Court states that "the questions of constitutional legitimacy of Article 580 of the Criminal Code, raised with reference to Articles 2, 3, 13, 32, second paragraph, and 117, first paragraph, of the Constitution, the latter in relation to Articles 8 and 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights, by the Judge for Preliminary Investigations of the Ordinary Court of Milan".The Council recalled what had already been established in judgment no. 135 of 2024: it is not necessary for the patient to be required to undergo life-sustaining treatment “for the sole purpose of being helped to die”. The requirement that the patient be dependent on life-sustaining treatment 'is already met when there is a medical indication of the need for such treatment in order to ensure the performance of vital functions, in particular whenever it must be considered that the omission or interruption of such treatment would foreseeably lead to death within a short period of time, and all the other substantive and procedural requirements indicated in judgment no. 242 of 2019 are met".