Decree-Law No. 377 providing emergency measures to deal with forest fires throughout the national territory.

In view of the urgent need to mobilize every means available to combat forest fires during the summer throughout the country, this Decree-Law authorizes a total of 65 billion liras to be spent for the year 1994 to enable the relevant authorities to deal with the serious threat to life and property posed by these fires. Thirty billion lire is allocated under this measure to finance the work of the National Fire Service, and the same amount is allocated to units of the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forest Resources (for ground and aerial fire-fighting equipment). The balance of five billion lire is to be used to launch a forest fire inventory plan jointly by the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forest Resources.