Task force to decide flood-zone interventions, pending commissioner - Meloni

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 7 - Premier Giorgia Meloni told a meeting of officials from the areas hit by last month's devastating floods in Italy that a task force would decided how to move forward with the reconstruction effort until an emergency commissioner is appointed. Two separate waves of extreme weather claimed a total of 17 lives in Emilia Romagna and caused massive damage to infrastructure and the the economy there and in parts of Marche and Tuscany.
    "This is a operative task force that serves to decide on the interventions necessary to address the damage, and discuss how best to act," Meloni told a meeting with the three regions' governors and the heads of the provinces affected.
    "It will be a permanent task force which, during the wait for the commissioner's office to be set, will be coordinated within the (central) government by (Civil Protection) Minister (Nello) Musumeci". (ANSA).