Subscribe here: https://bit.ly/eudebates Italian Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida said on October 2o the withdrawal of its proposed anti-cultivated meat bill Italy submitted to the European Union ‘is not a step back’, but many speculate that the government may want to avoid a likely rejection by the European Commission.
On October 13, Italy officially withdrew the Technical Regulation Information System notification (TRIS) for this bill, a EU procedure aimed at preventing the creation of barriers within the block’s internal market. Only after a positive scrutiny of the EU the law can enter into force in Italy, but without it, it remains scrap paper.
Over 2 million people and 3500 municipalities in Italy have signed a petition to normatize cultivated meat, said Minister Lollobrigida – although Italian agriculture organisation and promoter of the petition Coldiretti latest numbers confirms in March the collection of half million signatures. But despite this relative consensus, the ban could prevent the settlement of new biotech and lab-grown food firms in the country, whereas according to Italian science group Associazione Coscioni, the ban could be considerate a breach to Article nine of the Italian Constitution, that promote the development of scientific research.
In March of this year, Giorgia Meloni’s brother in law and Agriculture Minister proposed a draft law to ban lab-grown food in Italy – with the aim to “protect national interest, food heritage and consumers’ health.”. The bill included measures that prohibit the production and sale of what in Italy is called ‘synthetic food’ and a fine of up to nearly $64,000.
In July, the Senate of the Italian Republic approved on July 19 the bill preventing the production and import of cultivated products, whereas Lollobrigida stated his pride in Italy’s pioneering role of first country to ban the marketing, importation, and production of synthetic food.
But after notifying the European Commission of its decision in July, the government has taken the text back to casa.
According to documents seen by Italian newpaper Il Foglio, the withdrawing act was done is secrecy. The reason of the request was said to be “for an in-depth study of the issues covered by the bill, in light of the ongoing parliamentary discussion and the amendments that the text could suffer”.
After the news was released the Agriculture Ministry swiftly rectified its plans: “We are postponing the notification to the EU as it has already happened in the past for other similar measures. We believe it will happen very quickly, that is, by November.” said Lollobrigida. The saga continues.
An Italian bill banning lab-grown meat in Italy was notified to Brussels on Friday, a spokesman for the European Commission said.
Piercamillo Falasca, the Vice President of the More Europe (+Europa) party, has warned that Italy risks an infraction procedure after parliament approved the bill presented by the ruling coalition to ban the production, distribution and sale of cultivated meat here.
More Europe has appealed to President Sergio Mattarella not to sign the bill into law. Cultivated meat is grown from animal-tissue cells in a laboratory, meaning that animals do not have to be slaughtered to produce it. The ruling coalition has said the ban is needed to safeguard the public from potential health risks and protect Italy’s livestock industry and its traditional cuisine. The EC spokesman said Friday that the ban might be appealed by courts in other countries.
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