Country Information

Italy is a parliamentary republic with a political and administrative decentralization profile at regional and local levels.

Parliament consists of two chambers, the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic; it exercises legislative power and grants confidence to the Government, which exercises executive power.

The figures of the President of the Republic, Head of State and representative of national unity, and of the Constitutional Court, which acts as guarantor of the Constitution, also stand out at the institutional level.

The total area of Italy is 302,072.84 km2, with a population of about 59 million inhabitants distributed in 20 regions, divided into numerous administrative divisions (provinces).

Italy was among the first signatories of the Meter Convention on 20 May 1875.

Currently, it is a member of the OIML, the BIPM, and WELMEC.