ILVA Commissioner Enrico Laghi
said on Thursday that bids for the troubled Taranto steel plant
currently being run by government commissioners "will hopefully
be submitted by February 8" but said the date wasn't binding and
could be extended.
"Once the offers are submitted, the decision-making phase
will last 30 days," Laghi said in a Lower House budget committee
hearing on the cessation procedure for ILVA.
He said he expected ILVA properties to be transferred
"between September and October".
The company has the resources necessary to cover the
environmental clean-up plan that it is currently carrying out,
he said.
"Thus far we've undertaken interventions totalling 320
million euros and we have orders for 800 million euros," he
said.
"By June we will hand over the confiscated areas so they can
then be released".
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