Agriculture decree, on the change of the environmental Carabinieri, the Colle asks for explanations
The most controversial issue: the ban on installing 'ground-mounted' solar panels on agricultural land
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Key points
- The incorporation of Sin, national information service for agricultural development into Agea
- The transition of the Carabinieri Ambientali from the Ministry of the Environment to the Ministry of Agriculture
- The ban on installing 'ground-mounted' solar panels on agricultural land
- Government sources: talks with Colle on Lollobrigida dl
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"The minister proposed a decree that also involved other ministries and ministers in its drafting and was shared by the government. We have explained in detail the requirements of necessity and urgency. Now the interlocution with the Quirinale passes to Palazzo Chigi'. With these few laconic words before leaving for Calabria, the Minister of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty, Francesco Lollobrigida confirmed this morning the findings of the Presidency of the Republic on the Agriculture bill approved a few days ago (as anticipated this morning by Il Foglio) but did not want to go into the merits.
The incorporation of Sin, the national information service for agricultural development into Agea
From the news that has circulated so far, the reliefs should concern the planned incorporation of Sin, the national information service for the development of agriculture, into Agea (Agenzia per le erogazioni in agricoltura). A measure that in fact provides for the incorporation in Agea of what is the operational arm of the same agency because Sin is the database with all the detailed information on Italian farms, the aerophotogrammetry of agricultural land and all the sensitive data for the preparation of farm dossiers. This is the basic requirement for accessing Common Agricultural Policy contributions, funds that are then materially disbursed by Agea. According to the Quirinale, the measure does not meet the requirements for an urgent decree.
The passage of the Carabinieri Ambientali from the Ministry of the Environment to the Ministry of Agriculture
.Another relief highlighted by the Hill should concern the planned transfer of the Environmental Carabinieri from the Ministry of the Environment to the Ministry of Agriculture.
The ban on installing 'ground' solar panels on agricultural land
But where the affair gets tangled up is perhaps on the most relevant measure envisaged by the Agriculture decree, certainly the most controversial one: the ban on the installation of solar panels 'on the ground' on agricultural land. A measure that since its presentation has drawn criticism from photovoltaic companies and led to more than one friction between the Ministries of Agriculture and the Environment, with Minister Pichetto and his executives saying from the outset that they had not been informed of the contours of the measure being studied by the government.
It was only after days of close discussion between the technicians of the two ministries and the fine-tuning of a series of specifications (it will still be possible to build 'agri-voltaic' systems, i.e. with panels placed on the roofs of stables greenhouses and farm buildings or in the field, but at a height that does not jeopardise agricultural crops) and derogations (those for mines and quarries and service land owned by motorways and railways that, although stacked as agricultural land, have never been productive), the launch of the decree.
