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04 November 2019The European Indo steel giant ArcelorMittal has announced the withdrawal from the former Ilva of Taranto. With a note, the company reported having sent Ilva Extraordinary Commissioners "a notice of withdrawal from the contract or termination thereof" regarding the rental and subsequent conditional purchase of Ilva's business branches and some of its subsidiaries. The group recalls that the contract provides that, in the event that a new legislative provision affects the Taranto plant environmentally in such a way as to render its management or the implementation of the business plan impossible, the Company has the contractual right to withdraw from the same Contract.

According to the contents of the agreement of October 31, 2018 ArcelorMittal "asked the extraordinary commissioners to take responsibility for Ilva's activities and the employees within 30 days of receipt of the communication" of ArcelorMittal's intention to leave Ilva, reads in a group press release.

Arcelor Mittal focuses on the provision by which, from November 3, 2019, "the Italian Parliament has eliminated the legal protection necessary for the Company to implement its environmental plan without the risk of criminal responsibility, thus justifying the communication of withdrawal". In addition "the provisions issued by the Taranto Criminal Court oblige the Ilva Extraordinary Commissioners to complete certain prescriptions by December 13, 2019. Such prescriptions should reasonably and prudently be applied also to two other blast furnaces at the Taranto plant. Turning it off would make it impossible for the Company will implement its industrial plan, manage the Taranto plant and, in general, execute the Contract ", the note states.

Bentivogli (Fim): disengagement is a social bomb
"We learn the news of ArcelorMittal's willingness to communicate to the commissioners the will to withdraw from the contract. It means that starting today the 25 days for which former Ilva workers and plants will return to the Extraordinary Administration. Among the main reasons, the save companies on the criminal shield. A masterpiece of incompetence and political fear: do not defuse the environmental bomb and join the social bomb ". The Fim Cisl national secretary, Marco Bentivogli, affirms this.

Salvini: Conte urgently reports to the Chambers
"If the government taxes, disembarks, and handcuffs, the owners of Ilva will also escape, putting the work of tens of thousands of workers at risk and the industrial future of the country will be a disaster, and the resignation would be the only possible answer. The League asks that Conte urgently report to Parliament ". This was underlined by Lega leader Matteo Salvini.