Ilva must begin the shutdown procedures by Thursday. The ultimatum to the managers of the steel plant, launched on Saturday evening, comes directly from the Taranto prosecutor's office.
Meanwhile, the Minister of the Environment Corrado Clini, announces that the new Integrated Environmental Authorization (AIA) is ready and will be formally approved by the Services Conference on 17 October. The provision will contain the prescriptions that the company will have to comply with in order to drastically reduce polluting emissions into the air. The minister assures that the Authorization will be the strictest in Europe and the entire Executive hopes that it will be deemed sufficient by the magistrates of the Apulian capital.
“Shutting down Ilva in five days is impossible, because it is a very complex plant, so much so that the public prosecutor's office is asking for the proceedings to start – underlines Clini -. The Integrated Environmental Authorization will be ready next week. I trust the law. The Hague is the instrument that the law establishes to allow the exercise of industrial activities. I'm not very surprised by the latest decision of the prosecutor's office. Naturally, from the moment in which there will be the new Hague, the Public Prosecutor's Office itself will have to verify whether the conditions of the Authorization also satisfy the established safety and environmental protection requirements. I hope there are convergences. I'm confident".
In the last few days Ilva has collected the no of the Prosecutor's Office e of the investigating judge to the 400 million plan for the initial rehabilitation of the factory, judged by the magistrates to be inadequate and inconsistent. Now he has to stop the plants, including the large blast furnace 5, which up to now he has always tried to keep in business to avoid repercussions on production and employment.
Tomorrow Ilva should present the appeal against the rejection of the business plan by investigating magistrate Patrizia Todisco to the Court of Review of Taranto.
