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  "name": "Italy DPCM 8 July 2003 (as amended 2024)",
  "summary": "Italy's three-tier RF law — exposure limit, attention value and quality objective — whose precautionary tiers were raised from 6 V/m to 15 V/m on 30 April 2024.",
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    "organization": "Presidency of the Council of Ministers (Italy)",
    "edition": "DPCM 8 July 2003, amended by Law 214/2023 art. 10 in force 30 April 2024",
    "jurisdiction": [
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    "kind": "regulatory",
    "scope": "Applies to public exposure from fixed installations between 100 kHz and 300 GHz, averaged over a body-equivalent vertical section and over any 6-minute interval; occupational and medical exposures are excluded. The exposure limit protects against established short-term effects, the attention value applies inside buildings occupied four hours a day or more and their balconies and courtyards, and the quality objective applies outdoors in intensively frequented areas.",
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      "title": "DPCM 8 luglio 2003 — limiti di esposizione, valori di attenzione e obiettivi di qualità, 100 kHz–300 GHz",
      "publisher": "Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri (Gazzetta Ufficiale n. 199/2003)",
      "url": "https://corecom.consrc.it/hp2/doc/D.P.C.M.8_luglio2003.pdf",
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      "id": "italy-mimit-15vm",
      "title": "Adeguamento dei limiti dei campi elettromagnetici (15 V/m)",
      "publisher": "Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy",
      "url": "https://www.mimit.gov.it/it/notizie-stampa/adeguamento-dei-limiti-dei-campi-elettromagnetici",
      "year": 2024,
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      "id": "italy-arpa-piemonte-15vm",
      "title": "Aumentano i controlli di Arpa in seguito all'aumento dei limiti di campo elettromagnetico",
      "publisher": "Arpa Piemonte",
      "url": "https://www.arpa.piemonte.it/notizia/aumentano-controlli-arpa-seguito-allaumento-dei-limiti-campo-elettromagnetico-per",
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