Overview

• A July 17 conference of services will assess the new integrated environmental authorization required to prevent a potential judicial shutdown of the ex Ilva plant.
• Taranto’s Municipality and the Puglia Region agreed to postpone their ruling on hosting a floating regasification unit until July 31 to allow council scrutiny.
• A multi-stakeholder technical commission including ministries, local bodies and Snam must report by July 28 on alternative gas-supply solutions for direct-reduced iron feedstock.
• The government plans to reopen the international tender for ex Ilva assets on August 1 under updated decarbonization conditions with Antitrust and Golden Power reviews to follow.
• Metalworkers’ unions are pressing for formal employment guarantees as two green-steel transition scenarios could reduce workforce needs by up to 3,000–4,000 jobs.