Rome, 5 Oct. (LaPresse) – The right to health takes precedence even over economic considerations. This is the main reason why the Milan Court of Appeal has, for the second time, rejected the application to suspend the decree ordering the shutdown of the hot zone at the former Ilva site in Taranto, thereby confirming that the blast furnaces will be shut down by the end of October. The panel, chaired by President Giuseppe Ondei, set out the grounds for its decision in an 11-page ruling in which “whilst acknowledging that, at the hearing, it was pointed out that production is in the process of being suspended (thereby significantly diminishing the precautionary interest represented in the appeals) – it considers it important to note that – taking precedence over all other considerations – the specific risk deemed to result from the possible ‘shutdown’ of the blast furnaces appears, in any event, to be secondary to the overriding right to health, in the context of the necessary balancing of conflicting interests”.
Former Ilva case: Milan Court rules that the right to health takes precedence over economic interests
Rome, 5 Oct. (LaPresse) – The right to health takes precedence even over economic considerations. This is the main reason why the Milan Court of Appeal has, for the second time, rejected the application to suspend the decree ordering the shutdown of the hot zone at the former Ilva site in Taranto, thereby confirming that the blast furnaces will be shut down by the end of October. The panel, chaired by President Giuseppe Ondei, set out the grounds for its decision in an 11-page ruling in which “whilst acknowledging that, at the hearing, it was pointed out that production is in the process of being suspended (thereby significantly diminishing the precautionary interest represented in the appeals) – it considers it important to note that – taking precedence over all other considerations – the specific risk deemed to result from the possible ‘shutdown’ of the blast furnaces appears, in any event, to be secondary to the overriding right to health, in the context of the necessary balancing of conflicting interests”.