The Council of State rejects the request for revocation that Rwm Italia had presented against the sentence of the same jurisdiction dating back to 2019: therefore the expansion of the Domusnovas and Iglesias plant did not comply with current legislation.
A decision «definitive and without the possibility of appeal», commented Italia Nostra Sardegna, Unione Sindacale di Base per la Regione Sardegna and Assotziu Consumadoris Sardigna, «which confirms what associations, committees, trade unions and citizens have been claiming for six years now, namely that the expansion of the Rwm factory in Domusnovas and Iglesias is completely abusive as the authorization procedure followed for the release of the authorizations did not comply with the laws and regulations in force».
The 2019 sentence accepted the reasons of the associations on the mandatory nature of the Environmental Impact Assessment of the entire plant: old and new production structures.
The document reiterates "the prohibition of artificial division of the project to avoid its submission to EIA" and therefore "the project to expand the plant through the construction of the two new departments R200 and R210 and that relating to the construction of the Test Field 140 should have been submitted a mandatory EIA, on the basis of a whole series of arguments".
The reference is, in particular, "to the environmental code, to European legislation and to the precautionary principle, also of European origin".
«It took many years and numerous appeals to demonstrate what seemed obvious since 2017 and that is the illegitimacy of numerous authorizations issued too casually by public administrations and public officials. Some of these will have to appear next March 3 before the Cagliari judge, together with managers and technicians of the Rwm, to answer for the crime of forgery and numerous urban planning crimes», conclude the associations.
(Unioneonline/ss)
