Previous limits for their use that centred on the risk of drones causing damage to people and things in ordinary circumstances may not apply, considering that sidewalks are empty and streets are clear, meaning that drones are useful to monitor gatherings.
Derogations to these norms are motivated as follows:
“With a view to guaranteeing the containment of the epidemiological ‘coronavirus’ emergency, in order to allow operations to monitor the movement of citizens in the municipal territory envisaged in the decrees of the President of the Council of Ministers (PM) of 8 and 9 March 2020, it becomes necessary to derogate from some provisions of the measures in the ENAC Regulation on ‘Remotely Piloted Aircraft’, 3rd edition of November 2019.”
Source: ENAC: autorizzati i droni per il monitoraggio (link)