Resolution filed
Signed by the honorable Bruzzone, Molinari, Carloni, Bergamini, Pierro, a resolution was deposited in the XIII Commission (Agriculture) of the Chamber of Deputies aimed at committing the Government to more incisive resolutions and interventions in the fight against the spread of African swine fever and depopulation of the wild boar species.
The commitments
The resolution commits the Government
1) to work to ensure that the activity of Government and of the Extraordinary Commissioner for African swine fever are aimed at the eradication of the disease on the national territory and that the outbreaks of African swine fever remain isolated and do not extend to the currently free areas, in order to better protect and protect the areas with the highest intensity of raised pigs and meat and salami production plants;
2) to undertake all the actions necessary for the eradication of the disease, also evaluating the adoption of new active surveillance measures, including those that will be established by the new extraordinary National Plan for the management and containment of wildlife, in order to avoid serious economic and social repercussions that would result from the spread of the virus;
3) to enhance the active search for wild boar carcasses in restricted zones I and II;
4) to implement further and more effective depopulation actions in restricted areas I and II;
The withdrawals of the wild boars
In addition, the executive is engaged:
5) to foresee, in order to carry out the sampling of the wild boar, the numerical increase of the subjects who can also be authorized with the use of auxiliary means, such as for example dogs, in order to contain the diffusion and contrast of the ASF as well as the proliferation of the wild boar population;
6) to provide for a strengthening of the veterinary services of the ASL competent for the territory and of the public health structures of the regions concerned, which should be entrusted with the removal, transport, analysis, incineration or burial of culled animals that have tested positive for ASF;
7) to start a concrete supply chain of wild boar meat that tested negative for PSA tests;
8) to allocate the necessary funding to the Extraordinary Commissioner for African swine fever and to the Regions concerned in order to be able to implement the Eradication Plans.