La nuova Intesa con la Regione Ecclesiastica Sicilia sui beni culturali ecclesiastici alla luce del sistema concordatario italiano: l’atipicità diventa “tipica”?

The main topic analysed in the essay is the outline of civil ecclesiastical law about the Agreement (Intesa), signed in 2010 by the Regione Siciliana and the Regione Ecclesiastica Sicilia, aimed at the protection, preservation and development of the ecclesiastical cultural heritage. By moving from the specialty of the Sicilian model in regulating and administrating such heritage, and by analyzing its effects on the specific system that regulates the same ecclesiastical component, the primary goal is to focus on the atypical elements carried onto the Agreement, which appear to be connected to the practice of such special prerogatives by the Regional Government; and paying particular attention to those rules which, aside from not reflecting the equivalent ones carried instead onto the national Agreement (Intesa), may also reveal the respect of autonomous guidelines in front of the Agreement (Accordo) of Villa Madama. The final goal is then to clarify both the crux of the actual correspondence between such a peculiar reference and the concordatarian system, and the wideness of the powers pertaining, into such a system, to a Region holding special competences