1st World Congress on Wine Tourism and the Law municipalities, which should also carry out spot checks on at least ten percent of the existing facilities in each territory, and by March 31 of each year should send a report to the regions on the matter. This provision is more detailed than Article 4 of the current decree, for which the regions define the controls, but this does not alter the existing regulatory framework designed with dual national and regional interventions. Finally, Article 4 of the proposal provides for the establishment at the Ministry of Tourism of the national portal, which should collect all information related to wine tourism offerings, with the aim of "disseminating, enhancing and communicating knowledge of data related to the goods, services and cultural reproduction of the national wine tourism activity". Overall, this proposal raises concerns; in some parts it confuses the two issues of wine routes and wine tourism initiatives, resulting in an overlap that would make the regulations unclear and difficult to implement. Otherwise, it retains the current system, so that the national law sets the general criteria and entrusts the regions with detailed regulation. Compared to the current 2019 decree, municipalities and not regions would be called upon to perform control functions and enforce fines. This change does not justify a new text, not least because, in practice, even now regions involve municipalities with the delegation of the exercise of relevant powers. The main innovations concern the establishment of the national portal and the requirement of a sommelier qualification for the person in charge of wine tourism initiatives. It would be superabundant to have a law for these two profiles, and these goals could be achieved by other, certainly faster ways, for example by a new decree. Next, it is not appropriate to require the additional qualification of sommelier for the enhancement and promotion of wine tourism, as this could discourage new initiatives. However, although questionable in its approach, the
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