Chief of Civil Protection Department Order no. 642, 29 February 2020. Further urgent civil protection interventions in relation to the emergency relating to the health risk associated with the onset of diseases deriving from transmissible viral agents

The Order, states that the the economic pressure caused by the COVID-19 outbreak meets the conditions of A. 1218 of the Civil Code (temporary impossibility of performance of work and not imputable to the debtor himself); hence the mortgage holders of buildings located in the territory of the municipalities identified in Annex no. 1 to the decree of the President of the Council of Ministers of 23 February 2020, or strictly connected to the management of activities of a commercial and economic nature, including agricultural, in relation to which the operational headquarters are located in the same municipalities, have the right to ask the credit and banking institutions upon presentation of self-certification, with an indication of the damage suffered, the suspension of the mortgages rates, until the cessation of the state of emergency.