Full cooperation from Regions Liguria, Piedmont, Lombardy, Tuscany, Emilia Romagna and by the trade associations at the technical table that took place online during the morning of today, Thursday 10 February, with the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies on the eradication of swine fever. "A fruitful discussion with Minister Stefano Patuanelli to reduce as much as possible the technical times of the next wild boar de-population and resource management interventions - explains the vice president of the Liguria region Alessandro Piana - with an acceleration on the allocation to the Regions, first of all of the 15 million euros of the Fund for structural and functional interventions in biosecurity, an integral part of the total 50 million of the Sostegni Ter decree of the MIPAAF.
We have called for homogeneous measures at the national level and highlighted the impossibility of proceeding to fences of the red area that exactly match those carried out in Europe, for example in Germany, Belgium and Poland, territories with a completely different orography from ours. Meanwhile, Autostrade per l'Italia is continuing to strengthen barriers, as well as the slaughtering of pigs in commercial and family farms in Liguria continues at full speed.
Finally, we expressed the urgency to follow up on days, if not hours, to theformalization of the appointment of the extraordinary commissioner Angelo Ferrari since we cannot continue to face the emergency in ordinary ways to ensure the timeliness and effectiveness of the actions implemented ". Topics already subject to proposals by the Liguria Region which will see operational developments in the coming days through the presentation of the recommendations of the EU experts tomorrow morning in Alexandria, the convening of restricted technical discussions and further discussions with the competent ministries.