For now it is a proposal, but the request of the Marche Region to modify the energy decree to extend by 90 days the deadline for the identification of FER (renewable energy sources), relaunches the battle for Pratobello 24 in Sardinia. And, after the demonstrative signs in Orgosolo ("There are no suitable areas here"), the coordinators do not give up on seeing the proposed law undergo regulatory and bureaucratic delays: "It would be a betrayal of the will of 211 thousand Sardinians who signed the proposed law of popular initiative".
Now, in fact, they are relaunching, getting into the technical details, referring to the proposed amendment to the energy decree presented by the Marche Region, to try to force the lock that holds the Pratobello Law prisoner.
The request
"The majority in the Regional Council rejected the request to start the emergency procedure, justifying the decision, among other things, with the need to approve the Suitable Areas bill, the deadline for which would expire in January", says Michele Zuddas, the lawyer who, from the very beginning, has followed the events of Pratobello 24. "Campo Largo has forgotten that the procedure aimed at obtaining the sharing and approval by the Technical Coordination of Energy of the proposed amendment presented on 15 October by the representative of the Marche Region relating to legislative decrees 199/2021, the ministerial decree of 21 June 2024 and decree law 181/2023 has been started".
The terms
The amendment proposal was formulated and presented "considering that the 180-day deadline foreseen for the identification of areas suitable for the installation of renewable energy sources will be difficult to achieve", also considering that, at the end of the year, the regional legislative assemblies are mainly engaged in approving the Budget.
The possibilities
"If the extension proposal is accepted, it would therefore be necessary to also modify Legislative Decree 181/2023, which provides that the distribution of funds among the Regions will take place on the basis of the approval of regional laws by 31 December 2024", continues Zuddas. "Therefore, it is inexplicable why President Todde insists on proceeding at a rapid pace for the approval of bill 45 and does not worry in the least about the discussion process of Law Pratobello 24. Is it possible that, while the Marche Region is working for an extension of the terms of the Pichetto Fratin decree, Sardinia, in order to quickly approve bill 45", is Zuddas' conclusion, "is forgetting about a law that has collected almost 211 thousand signatures?"
The coordinations
Given that this is a proposal, "the outcome of which, logically, should be known by the second week of November", the request of the coordination is still valid: "If the extension were granted", says Luigi Pisci, of the Sarcidano committee, "it would be proof that the rush evoked by the majority is only an alibi to put the wagon of the Suitable Areas resolution in front of that of Pratobello 24 and derail the latter. A defusing operation that goes hand in hand with the decision not to implement the emergency procedure and send Pratobello to the shallows of the commissions". Among other things, as Davide Fadda, of the permanent garrison of the Sardinian people of the port of Oristano, points out, "it is the only rule that establishes prohibitions through urban planning, over which the Region has exclusive power".
The commission
Meanwhile, in the Urban Planning and Productive Activities commissions of the Regional Council, the process of bill 45 continues. "The compact majority has given equal dignity to the two provisions, the suitable areas bill and the Pratobello bill, which in fact will follow the same process", observes Roberto Li Gioi, president of the Urban Planning commission. "We cannot be accused of having set ourselves objectives, a balanced timing and of having practically closed the discussion of bill 45 according to the deadlines we had given ourselves without forcing".
