Covid-19 - Fundamental Rights and Freedoms: From the Adoption of Restrictive Measures to the Day-By-Day Management of Companies

Giorgia Valsecchi, Associate of TMT and Data Protection Department , Morri Rossetti & Associati, Italy

The emergency context resulting from the spread of Covid-19, which has involved all continents and national states, has led to the need, in democratic states, of adopting all means and measures aimed at limiting the spread of the same while balancing the different interests at stake and respecting the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals. As jurists, we cannot refrain from evaluating this situation and the measures that have entailed and entail a limitation of fundamental rights and freedoms, even tough, in this case, by reason of protecting health. In fact, despite the extraordinary and exceptional nature of what is happening, what distinguishes the democratic states is the ability to accept and justify limitations and derogations but within a correct balance of rights in order to ensure the proper maintenance of the democratic system.

Giorgia collaborates with the TMT and Data Protection Department focusing on law and regulation applicable to privacy and data protection, internet, online publishing and advertising, e-commerce, and information technology. She also focuses her activity on the negotiations and drafting of commercial contracts. Before beginning her collaboration with Morri Rossetti e Associati, she gained her professional experience in a Milan-based firm working with the internalization and compliance departments. Graduated in Law from the University of Milan with a thesis on Commercial Law, she attended one academic semester in Norway at the University of Bergen. Qualified as a lawyer in 2020, she is a member of the Italian Bar Association in Milan.

Morri Rossetti & Associati is a law and tax firm that provides integrated consultancy to its Clients. Morri Rossetti combines the accurate, flexible and customized service typical of ’boutique firms’ with the working standards and methods used by large professional networks. The Firm supports its Clients in ordinary business, but also in delicate and more complex issues, always delivering the most suitable solution. The versatile organization and our professionals’ capacity to collaborate synergically provide our Firm a natural flexibility and an ability to deal with our Clients’ needs with both efficient and creative solutions. Our Firm assists listed companies, multinationals, family-owned businesses, asset management companies and financial intermediaries, as well as private clients. We often support entrepreneurs and real estate portfolios in intergenerational transfers or in sale transactions.