Renewable, fewer posts in areas subject to protection. More powers to the drilling commissioner

Renewable plants also in the buffer zones of UNESCO sites, as long as they are on land with the characteristics of suitable areas. This is the main novelty of the amendments to the fuel bill, expected in the Senate on Wednesday, approved in the Environment Committee.

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The corrective modifies the Consolidated Law on Renewables. Today a general ban applies in the protection zones of UNESCO sites. With the amendment, plants subject to a simplified authorization procedure and single authorization will also be permitted, provided that they fall entirely within the buffer zone and that the area presents the suitability characteristics required by state or regional law. However, for these projects the simplified regulation of suitable areas will not apply: the process remains the ordinary one.

A second intervention concerns the Regions, called to identify further suitable areas by law: in applying their own criteria they will not be able to call into question the areas already declared suitable by state law.

The second correction concerns the heart of the original decree of 10 September. Article 2, in fact, accelerates the procedures for the exploration and cultivation of hydrocarbons on land, including the drilling of wells and the issuing or extension of permits and concessions. If the Region does not express its opinion on the agreement within 45 days of receiving the documentation, the Prime Minister assigns it a maximum term of 60 days, reduced to 30 in the single procedure introduced in 2022. In case of further inertia, the Council of Ministers appoints a commissioner ad acta who makes the agreement in place of the Region.

So far, the original text. The amendment signed by Claudio Fazzone (Fi) just approved extends the commissioner's powers to the adoption of any endo-procedural act or authorization "however named" under the jurisdiction of the Region or local authorities, if necessary to conclude the procedure.