Act that stimulates the development of konoplevodstva in Italy
From January 14 at the territory of the Apennine peninsula came into force of the legal act, greatly simplifies maintenance of industrial konoplevodstva in the country.
The growing season 2017 Italian cannabis growers will be carried out using the law (number 242 of 12.02.2016 years), which greatly simplifies maintenance konoplevodstva for industrial purposes.
According to market analysts, as well as the Italian growers themselves, finally earn legal framework that makes competitive konoplevodstvo Italy on the international market. The rapidly developing sphere of the most highly profitable crop in the Italian regions of Puglia, Piedmont, Venice, Basilicata, Lombardy, Friuli, Sicily, Sardinia, until recently, was not in the normal extent provided by regulations that ensure the development of industrial konoplevodstva. In particular, according to the Minister of Agriculture of Italy Martina Maurizio (Maurizio Martina), the entry into force of this law, "opens the way for Italy to restore its lost past leadership hemp market in Europe. The law will give impetus to the creation of modern closed chains of production of hemp products that will maximize the potential of the plant. Hemp is considered as a culture, which will be one of the drivers create a complete "green industry" in Italy, including by using it as an extremely effective fitoremedianta. This technical hemp will minimize the effects of the devastating human impact on the climate and contribute to a sustainable model of economic development of the country. "
The main innovations introduced by the new law:
1. for the cultivation of industrial hemp cultivation technology now do not need any permission from the state authorities. The only obligation is to preserve the agricultural producer of documents showing the purchase of seeds from a certified manufacturer, for the past 12 months.
2. The percentage of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) may range from 0.2% to 0.6% in industrial crops. Any test government agencies may be carried out only in the presence of the agricultural producer, staff inspection authorities are required to leave an advance copy of samples, to be able to cross-check the results by an independent laboratory. If the amount of a controlled psychoactive substance in the world exceeds the threshold of 0.6%, only a court can seize the products, on the field or make a decision on the destruction of hemp raw material that grows on it.
3. annually to the state budget will be laid grants in the amount of not less than 700 thousand euros used to further improve the conditions of production and processing hemp production.
Ministry of Health of Italy, the task for the next six months to develop by-laws and regulations governing the production of foods, cosmetics, and other interesting products for the market, which will be legally made of the raw material, in which the amount of THC would not exceed 0.6 %.
Comment of the Association "Ukrainian industrial hemp"
At the beginning of the last century in the Italian area of cannabis crops used for industrial purposes, amounted to more than 100 thousand hectares. According to analysts of the EU agricultural market, in 2015 the area of technical industrial hemp crop was slightly more than 3 thousand hectares.
It should be noted not only the revolutionary spirit of the regulatory act for one of the leading growers of the European Union konoplevodcheskih countries, but also the timeliness of its entry into force. On the territory of our country, as a rule, regulations are accepted or in anticipation of planting, either directly during the harvesting campaign. This results in a permanent loss of the part of the national agricultural producers, who have no time to keep track of changes to the existing legislation on a regular basis than their "trying to catch the" representatives of state structures and the various regulatory authorities.
Information taken from the site http://tku.org.ua