DNPT siting: the Energy Decree published in the Official Gazette
08 February 2024
Law no. 11 of 2 February 2024, which converts the "Energy Decree" (Decree-Law no. 181/2023) as amended after its passage through Parliament, was published in the Official Gazette of the Italian Republic on 7 February.
The regulation introduced changes to the procedure for the siting of the National Repository and Technology Park (DNPT), stipulated in Legislative Decree no. 31 of 2010.
The conversion measure confirms the provisions of the Energy Decree. More specifically, the possibility for all local authorities, whether included or not in the National Map of Suitable Areas (CNAI), to send the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security (MASE) and Sogin their self-application to host the work, in the 90 days following the publication of the list of suitable areas provided for in the CNAI proposal on the Ministry's website.
Furthermore, it makes provision for Sogin to ascertain whether any self-application areas not included in the CNAI proposal can be reconsidered, taking into account territorial constraints that have in the meantime lapsed or substantially changed or for technical reasons that can be overcome with appropriate modifications to the preliminary design of the DNPT.
The link to the complete MASE Press Release is provided below: