DE SALUTE REI PUBLICAE? Genesi, compatibilità costituzionale e dinamiche della disciplina sul segreto di Stato introdotta con legge 3 agosto 2007, n. 124.

With the law August 3, 2007, n. 124 entitled "Information system for the security of the Republic and the new discipline of the secret", as amended by the Law of 7 August 2012, n. 133, the state legislature has completely changed the system of national security, thirty years after his first discipline. What were the reasons for this change? Why has Parliament, in this context, decided to create a new institutional architecture? And above all, was it really offer the maximum possible protection to the value of the salus rei publicae, in the light and the limits of the Constitution? The present study, through a survey of the origins, constitutional compatibility and dynamics of law n. 124 of 2007 aims to provide answers to these problems. In this regard will be examined parliamentary proceedings leading to the adoption of this law and its further editing; will be identified all the issues of constitutional and political institutions emerging from the renewed discipline; will be study the main decisions of the Constitutional Court on the matter. At the end will be also analyzed certain judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, for two reasons: because the law can be an inspiration to the legislature in future unavoidable revisions of the subject and because the Constitutional Court may, by looking at the judge Strasbourg, go back to being the real judge of a state secret. Law no. 124 of 2007, as amended in 2012, is not an unconstitutional law but the original purpose of the legislature to create a system of salus rei publicae compatible with the balance of the parliamentary form of government has failed and that, above all, because of inadequate counter-seater ever after confirmation of the secret, and, therefore, when damage is possible occurred. So, who does control the head of government, which is the only dominus of salus rei publicae? Nobody.