No more landings on two out of three beaches. Stop the launching of aerial bombs. Large maneuvers of men and vehicles on the sand will be avoided. And a buffer zone will be created around the wetlands. The technicians appointed by the Army command in Sardinia call them "mitigation measures": these are the measures proposed to the regional Department of the Environment to be able to continue the exercises inside the Capo Teulada shooting range. Better yet, to be able to continue shooting (everything) in a military area that, for the most part, is also protected from an environmental point of view.
A paradox, which the Ministry of Defense wants to overcome by obtaining the Vinca: the environmental impact assessment (precisely) . The polygon has existed since 1956, but this is the first time that the Army has started a procedure of this kind.
Those 233 pages of analysis and technical sheets filed on January 21 in the offices on Via Roma, in Cagliari, are an implicit admission: to carry out exercises from January to May and from September to December (excluding holidays) it is necessary to evaluate the impact of tanks, bombs, missiles and projectiles on the balances of the sites of community interest "Isola Rossa and Capo Teulada" and "Promontory, dunes and wetlands of Porto Pino", established in 1995, which for hundreds of hectares insist inside the military zone. This is required by law, a decree of the President of the Republic dating back to 1997. But until now, simply, the rule had not been respected .
The problem was raised by the Legal Intervention Group, which in 2023 filed an appeal with the TAR to have the green light for the exercise calendar declared illegitimate in Vinca's absence. The administrative judges had taken their time and have not yet decided. Now the Defense is trying to take cover.
All the details in the article by Enrico Fresu in L'Unione Sarda on newsstands and on the digital version of the app.
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