Il ripristino delle popolazioni di impollinatori

Within the framework of a legislative intervention aimed at restoring ecosystems, explicit recognition is given to the need to protect wild pollinating insects, organisms that are in- trinsically interconnected with the ecological contexts on which they depend and within which they perform the essential ecological function of pollination. The legislator’s choice to include in Regulation (EU) 2024/1991 a specific provision dedicated to this objective, namely article 10, is based on a dual acknowledgment: on the one hand of the essential role played by the ecosystem services they provide and, on the other hand, of their critical conservation status. This regulatory intervention, acting in synergy with the European Union’s Pollinators Initiative, revised in 2023, addresses the need to establish a dedicated framework for governance and monitoring, while granting Member States significant dis- cretion in designing differentiated national approaches. The adequacy and effectiveness of the measures adopted, which reflect both the ambition of national lawmakers and the need to balance potentially conflicting interests, will be evaluated in light of standardised monitoring activities and the contribution of the most recent scientific findings, intended to form the basis of the measures set out in national restoration plans. The alignment with scientific evidence may ultimately prove decisive, as suggested by recent French case law, in shaping potential liability arising from the failure to implement the Regulation or to achieve the objectives it lays down.