# Italy attention value and quality objective (15 V/m)

> The precautionary tier of Italian law, raised from 6 V/m to 15 V/m on 30 April 2024: it applies inside buildings occupied four or more hours a day and outdoors in intensively frequented areas.

- Canonical URL: https://emfbase.com/limits/italy-attention-value-15-v-m
- Collection: Exposure limits
- Record id: `limits:italy-attention-value-15vm`
- Status: verified
- Last verified: 2026-08-12
- JSON: https://emfbase.com/api/limits/italy-attention-value-15-v-m

## Key values

- **Limit value:** 15 V/m — Regulatory value — legally enforceable — Article 10 of Law 214/2023 raised the attention value and the quality objective from 6 V/m to 15 V/m with effect from 30 April 2024, pending alignment with European limits; 15 V/m is about 0.6 W/m². The 6 V/m figure still circulating online is the pre-2024 value. [italy-mimit-15vm, italy-arpa-piemonte-15vm]
- **Quantity:** electric field strength
- **Frequency band:** 100 kHz–300 GHz
- **Population:** general public
- **Set by:** Italy DPCM 8 July 2003 (as amended 2024) (DPCM 8 July 2003, amended by Law 214/2023 art. 10 in force 30 April 2024)
- **Kind:** Regulatory — legally enforceable
- **Averaging time:** 6 minutes — A measurement must use the same averaging before it can be compared with this value.

## Related records

- [Italy DPCM 8 July 2003 (as amended 2024)](https://emfbase.com/standards/italy-dpcm-2003): 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.
- [Attention value and quality objective](https://emfbase.com/glossary/attention-value): Italy's two precautionary legal tiers below the exposure limit: the attention value applies where people spend four or more hours a day, the quality objective applies outdoors in busy areas.

## Sources

- `italy-mimit-15vm` Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy (2024). *Adeguamento dei limiti dei campi elettromagnetici (15 V/m)*. https://www.mimit.gov.it/it/notizie-stampa/adeguamento-dei-limiti-dei-campi-elettromagnetici — government, link checked 2026-08-12
- `italy-arpa-piemonte-15vm` Arpa Piemonte (2024). *Aumentano i controlli di Arpa in seguito all'aumento dei limiti di campo elettromagnetico*. https://www.arpa.piemonte.it/notizia/aumentano-controlli-arpa-seguito-allaumento-dei-limiti-campo-elettromagnetico-per — government, link checked 2026-08-12
- `italy-dpcm-2003` Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri (Gazzetta Ufficiale n. 199/2003) (2003). *DPCM 8 luglio 2003 — limiti di esposizione, valori di attenzione e obiettivi di qualità, 100 kHz–300 GHz*. https://corecom.consrc.it/hp2/doc/D.P.C.M.8_luglio2003.pdf — regulation, link checked 2026-08-12

Data licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Dataset version 2026.08.1. Retrieved from EMFBase, https://emfbase.com.

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