Panoramic: Automotive and Mobility 2025
Hogan Lovells wins before the Constitutional Court end to disproportionate restrictions on PHVs and protection of innovation in mobility
Press releases
| 05
November
2025
5 November 2025 – Global law firm Hogan Lovells secured a favorable judgment in the interest of ANITRAV (the National Association of PHV service providers) in the proceedings before the Constitutional Court, which were concluded with Judgment no. 163/2025, published on 4 November. In this decision, the Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional the provision imposing on NCC operators disproportionate restrictions and obligations, in relation to the goal of ensuring fair competition with taxi services, further noting that such measures encroach upon the regional jurisdiction over “local public transport.”
In particular, the Court declared unlawful the provisions that required a minimum interval of 20 minutes between the booking and the start of the service, prohibited the conclusion of long-term agreements with entities engaged – even indirectly – in intermediation activities, and obliged PHV operators to use exclusively a ministerial digital platform for the registration of rides.
The Court held that these measures, in addition to reproducing effects already declared unconstitutional by previous judgment no. 56/2020, unjustifiably restricted free economic initiative and the development of innovative mobility models.
Hogan Lovells assisted ANITRAV with a team led by Valerio Natale and Marco Berliri.
Press contacts
Press contacts
