Mr. Alfonso PECORARO SCANIO, Minister of the Environment, Land and Sea

Born on: 13 March 1959 in Salerno
Lawyer, publicist

Minister of  the Environment, Land and Sea

Via Cristoforo Colombo, 44
00147 Roma

phone: +39 06 57225508/5509/5511
fax: +39 06 57288513

Lawyer, publicist, Member of the Italian Parliament since 1992, Minister of Agriculture in 2000, Minister of the Environment, Land and Sea in 2006; promoter of laws against the ill-treatment of animals, in favour of the young  entrepreneurs; promoter of the reform of the agrarian syndicate, the protection of genuinity label of olive oil produced in Italy; launcher of the reform of the Italian agriculture.
Publications: “Il principio di precauzione” (“The precautionary principle”) in cooperation with Grazia Francescato and “Le vie dell’acqua” (“The water ways”)  with Maurizio Montalto and the preface of Alex Zanotelli.

From 1980:  Founder of the Italian Greens

1982:     Founder of the Legal Centre for the protection of the consumers and of the Association “Green Vigilance”

1985:     Municipal Advisor of the Greens in the Southern Italy (Salerno)

1987:     Town councillor of the first Democratic and Green alliance in the Council of Salerno

1989:     Coordinator of the European Greens and Regional Advisor of the Campania Region

since 1992:  Member of the Italian Parliament - Chamber of Deputies (Greens Party)

1992:     Municipal Advisor in Naples

1992:     Member of the Justice Commission, Chamber of Deputies

1996:     President of the Agriculture Commission, Chamber of Deputies

2000:     Minister of Agriculture,  second Amato’s Government

since 2001:  President of the Italian Greens Federation

since may 2006:  Minister of  the Environment, Land and Sea, second Prodi’s Government