(source Greenplanet.net) - The region that saw 'GMO piracy' in action, Friuli Venezia Giulia, has become - in reaction to the events of last summer - also the only Italian region to have introduced a moratorium on the planting of GMOs. The Regional Council has in fact approved the Council's own-initiative law that dictates “urgent and temporary” rules; the stop will last 12 months and aims to prevent the next planting even if some farmers from Friuli Venezia Giulia win the appeal, submitted to the Regional Administrative Court of Lazio and under discussion on April 9, against the inter-ministerial decree that banned the cultivation of Mon810 corn in Italy throughout 2014. The vote comes after the President of the Region, Debora Serracchiani, had defined Friuli Venezia Giulia as the first region under the attack of GMOs: this is why we ask the government to do its part and to fill the gaps currently present in national legislation, introducing special sanctioning rules that actually prevent cultivation'. Our country, meanwhile, has been the subject of the opening of an infringement procedure by the European Commission regarding legislation on genetically modified crops. In Friuli, the debate started in 2010, when the farmer Giorgio Fidenato sowed some property fields in defiance of the regulatory vacuum: on his side there is a favorable order from the European Commission and an acquittal decided by the court of Pordenone.
