The court of the city of Taranto lifted the arrest from the products of the ILVA Communist Party at the request of the local prosecutor's office

Metal distribution and semi -finished products of the production of the ILVA metallurgical plant arrested last year in the port of the city of Taranto will go on free sale today. It is reported by Steelorbis.

Judge Patricia Todisco gave permission to ILVA managers to sell the previously arrested metal production in response to the corresponding appeal of the prosecutor's office of the city of Taranto, who reasonably considered that the metal distribution stored in the port in the port would soon become unusable.

About two million tons of metal products, thrown today to the Italian market, will add problems to local metal traders. According to incoming information, 60 thousand tons of hot rolon were sold today at a price of 460 euros/ton ($ 580). Even more dumping offers are expected this week. The fall in prices for the already problematic market of southern Europe will reach 20-30 euros per ton, local merchants say.

As we have already reported, in November 2012, the Taranto court in accordance with the requirements of the local prosecutor's office arrested 1 million 700 thousand tons of metal production produced by the ILVA plant since July 2012. The basis of the arrest was the fact that the metal production was carried out at a time when a decision was made to stop the factory capacities in connection with the investigation of the possible connection of the enterprise with an increased level of cancer, breathing and cardiovascular diseases in the southern region of Taranto.

Meanwhile, on February 13 of this year, the Italian Constitutional Court recognized the requirements of the Taranto prosecutor’s office to ban the Italian government to support the ILVA problem plant. As you know, in April 2013, the Italian Constitutional Court will make a final decision regarding the constitutionality of last year’s decree of Cabinet Mario Monty on granting the right to the ILVA control right to produce metal rolling until the emissions of environmental norms existing in the European Union. In the case of a decision of the confirming ban on production activities, the ILVA metallurgical plant will be closed.

Italian ecologists continue to insist that the plant in Taranto should be stopped as quickly as possible. Fabio Matachier, President of the Ecological Fund of Antidioxin, provided video materials withdrawn by him in Taranto today. "The video proves that the situation at the plant does not change, and precisely because the prosecutor’s office and the court gave green light to the ILVA managers to continue environmental pollution," Matachier said.