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Tackling Environmental Crime throUgh standardized Methodologies

of environmental crime that would be ever more suited to respond to the need
to oppose organized crime in the environmental sector and to interact better in
directing the prevention and deterrence of crime.

Alongside this important innovation affecting the Police forces of our
country, I would take the opportunity to represent the imminent approval of
the reform bill for the system of environmental agencies, bill 221 of 2015, the
so-called, already approved, “environmental linked” bill, containing regulations
with an immediate impact on the administration of local institutions and on the
behavior of citizens and companies. An entire chapter of law 221 is dedicated
to the strategies for the sustainable development we have already heard about
and to which I will return in the final part of my speech.

These days the final examination of the implementation decrees gover-
ning the charges for certain services essential for development is being carried
out in the technical offices of the Ministry for the Environment. I refer, for
example, to the DPCM on water rates, the containment of arrears, the reform
of district governance of water systems; all these are sector reforms but defi-
nitely strategic reforms and I am thinking at this point of specific areas of the
country in which forms of exploitation by organized crime still take place,
often at the expense of the weakest. Whoever works in the social context
knows very well how in certain areas of the country these phenomena feed
social tensions which often result in the actual disruption of public order

The legislative process which will lead to the institution of a unicameral
Commission of Inquiry into the reconstruction of L’Aquila is about to be defi-
ned in the Senate and there have also been intense Government investigations
into issues such as the environmental problems related to the establishment of
ILVA in Taranto, the Servola steel industry of Trieste, environmental problems
connected with the prospecting, research, development and extraction of
hydrocarbon liquids at sea, those connected with the construction of plants for
the heat treatment of waste, with reference to pyro gasification installations or
those that affect plants for energy production

European Institutions have drawn up a strategy for sustainable develop-
ment of resources, thanks to an action plan and a reform package of the main
directives on the subject of waste.

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