ROMA (ITALPRESS) – The government is willing to bring in the next Council of Ministers a law decree containing social safeguards for workers and that points to a Fund not for closure of activities, but in a perspective of continuity. And at the same time, the government is deepening further social safeguards, to be included in the conversion of the Dl. He said – according to what he learns – the undersecretary of the Council Presidency, Alfredo Mantovano, opening the meeting with the unions on the former Ilva at Palazzo Chigi.
For Mantovano, moreover, the government’s intention is to focus on the production of green steel with Dri plant and electric ovens, provided within a credible industrial plan. The resources for the Dri are there – Mantovano has explained – even those that might seem partially distracted can actually fall back as destined to decarbonization, so basically to the area of Taranto that is the only interested in this process.
The Government – continued Mantovano – is deepening further simplifications and incentives for investment projects in the area of Taranto that point, after professional requalification of the workers, to absorb how many should remain without work for the Ilva affair, with a structure tendingly unitary of coordination that will have the task to finalize and accelerate their implementation.
In his intervention Mantovano also covered the latest developments of the judicial process that concerns the former Ilva, recalling how the requests of the Pg della Cassazione, although not binding for the Joint Sections, criticize the suspension decrees of the Court of Appeal of Milan, both on the risks from asbestos and on the Pm10 powders. A passage, that of the Pg of Cassation – said Mantovano – that substantially attests the correctness of the work carried out by the Government through the in-depth investigation of the Ministry of the Environment and the Higher Institute of Health, as well as the efforts of the administrators to adapt to the prescriptions.
However, the requests of the Pg obviously do not stop the effectiveness of the decree of the Court of Appeal of Milan, which requires the directors of the former Ilva to follow its prescriptions, penalty the risk of encroaching in the violation of environmental and criminal norms.
One of the points in deepening – Mantua explained – is not so much to sterilize altogether the decree of the Court of Appeal with a new norm, which would be legally impossible, as to avoid the risk that the full and total execution of the order of shutdown of the blast furnaces vana a possible decision of the Cassation that should allow the furnaces to remain in activity.
It is therefore occurring if there are the margins not to arrive at the complete shutdown so that a complete prejudice to the plants is not determined. It is not a rule of disapplication of the decree of the Court of Appeal – it has clarified – but a rule that allows, if there are margins from the legal and economic point of view, to maintain in heat the plants until there is clarity on the decision of the Court of Cassation.
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