Weapons, ANPAM raises the alarm: without the National Test Bench, Made in Italy is penalized above all.
The ANPAM is working to ensure that Parliament protects the arms sector by regulating it with certain and clear rules, starting with the assignment of tasks for the recognition of a common firearm to the National Test Bench.
In these hours, the Chamber of Deputies is also deciding the future of many Italian companies engaged in the sporting and civil arms sector; the ANPAM as a trade association, but also to protect the entire supply chain, intends to try all the ways for the Parliament to protect the sector by regulating it with certain and clear rules, starting with the assignment of the tasks of recognizing the common firearm to the National Test Bench.
The Senate of the Republic has suppressed all the rules concerning the arms sector for the civil market in the decree-law of 20 June 2012 n. 79, thus preventing some problematic provisions for the sector from being implemented.
However, the National Association of Sporting and Civil Weapons and Ammunition Manufacturers (ANPAM - Confindustria) expresses deep concern for the failure to attribute to the National Test Bench of Gardone Val Trompia its natural function of recognition of common firearms, since this maintains the situation of administrative uncertainty that blocks the sector and causes damage and losses to the operators concerned.
The Anpam recalls that according to the recent study by the University of Urbino, the Italian sports and civil arms sector directly employs about 2200 companies with a total number of employees of almost one hundred thousand workers and a value of almost 8 billion euros per year.
ANPAM hopes that the Chamber of Deputies, when converting the aforementioned decree into law, will fill the regulatory gap in the sense indicated, by approving a simple text that attributes to the Bank the necessary powers to ensure compliance with the law and community legislation, providing a certain and stable regulatory framework for businesses, citizens and administration.