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02 April 2020 "The sale also to the retail of seeds, ornamental plants and flowers, potted plants and fertilizers is allowed on the whole national territory or at least where a local rule does not prevail, regardless of the Ateco code.

The go-ahead comes from the Minister of Agricultural Policies Teresa Bellanova with a post on Facebook. "The problem arises that the Ateco code of florists is not included in the list of activities that can open contained in the Dpcm #IoRestoaCasa. The answer is clear and clear, says the minister: the retail sale of seeds, plants and ornamental flowers, potted plants and fertilizers is allowed throughout the national territory, or at least where a local rule does not prevail, regardless of the Ateco code ".

"This crisis - concludes the minister - is taking away loved ones and limiting the freedom to leave the house, to see their friends, to greet elderly family members. It is preventing many people from working and contributing to the family budget.
Bringing flowers and plants to our homes, on our balconies, in our gardens can be a way to give us a little beauty in these days spent at home, while helping a sector that is really in crisis and that risks throwing I waste most of this season's production. "

My insistence, Bellanova concludes, derives only from the need to ensure as many sales channels as possible to a very important sector, the nursery gardening sector, which has 100 thousand employees and which bases a large part of its annual turnover on these months ".