The Court of Appeal halts the hot area of the former Ilva plant, the government convenes an emergency meeting

The Court of Appeal of Milan has ordered the suspension of production activity in the hot area of the former Ilva plant in Taranto. The measure will effectively lead to the closure of the area within ninety days, according to what was announced by Palazzo Chigi. The plant is currently under extraordinary administration, a condition that the Minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti recalled during a press conference dedicated to the matter.

The Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, convened an urgent meeting at Palazzo Chigi immediately after the Court of Appeal’s decree was made public. The speed of the convocation signals the weight attributed by the government to the judicial decision, which affects one of the most debated steel plants of recent years in terms of industrial and employment impact. The government responded with a decree-law, presented by Giorgetti himself, which simultaneously addresses oil prices and the situation of the company Ilva S.p.A.

The available sources do not specify the precise content of the decree-law, nor the technical or legal reasons with which the Court of Appeal ordered the suspension of the hot area. It is therefore not possible, based on what has been released so far, to reconstruct whether the government’s measure directly intervenes on the timing of the closure, on the management of the workers involved, or on other aspects of the company’s extraordinary administration.

The fact remains that the ninety-day deadline introduces a precise timeframe within which the matter will have to find some form of operational response, whether through a regulatory intervention capable of suspending the effects of the ruling, a further appeal, or the actual start of the procedures to close the hot area. The decree-law announced by Giorgetti falls within this time window, but the publicly available text does not currently allow one to establish whether the two issues — oil prices and the Ilva situation — are being treated as separate chapters or as a single, organic intervention.

It should be noted that the news currently comes from a single source, the Palazzo Chigi statement; there is no independent confirmation of the content of the Milan Court of Appeal’s decree, whose full text does not appear among the sources consulted for this edition. The urgent convening of the Council of Ministers remains, at this stage, the most solid element available to gauge the seriousness with which the government has received the judicial decision.

The ninety-day deadline indicated by the measure remains, as things stand, the only certain time reference around which the next moves of the government and of ownership will be measured.