I ask environmental groups following the sensational appeal of EU law by the regional government.
Immediately suspend the hunting season 2009-2010: the urge WWF, Legambiente, Lipu, Lac Lav and following the decision of the Council of Ministers to challenge proposal of the Minister for Relations with the Regions Raffaele Lease, the Regional Law 13/2009 (the "EU law", as provisions for the fulfillment of the obligations arising from Italy's region of the European Community) in the section on hunting.
According to the government, the law of 13 is unlawful because it "regulates huntability of some species precluded from intervening in an area to the regional and subjects, albeit temporarily, the whole region Friuli Venezia Giulia to the legal regime of the wildlife area of \u200b\u200bthe Alps limiting the portion of land to be devoted to wildlife protection. " In
detail, there are two contested articles: Article 37 on huntability of wild birds, as the Region Friuli Giulia, without mentioning any scientific body or control at the regional or national responsibilities that are inherent, such as those to expand the list of species, and art. 48, which extends throughout the region, the wildlife area of \u200b\u200bthe Alps
After the Regional Law 6 / 2008 on hunting, environmental protection associations had in fact brought an action on several points of the standard and in particular on all the region of the wildlife area of \u200b\u200bthe Alps, which provides a percentage of protected land less than expected in the remaining territory.
The complaint was upheld by the Constitutional Court, which had held that the decision to extend the wildlife area of \u200b\u200bthe Alps in the Friuli Venezia Giulia everything unnecessarily limited the protection of animal and was therefore quashed the law.
Facing the regulatory vacuum has arisen, which threatened not to allow the start of hunting season a few weeks after its inception, the majority of regional councils has seen fit to run for cover in the law by entering a regional community that extends back to the article wildlife area of \u200b\u200bthe Alps to the entire territory of the Friuli Venezia Giulia, even if only until January 31, 2010, that is until the end of hunting season.
In essence, the environmentalists complain, but to allow hunters to take up the shotguns, Regional Councillors who voted for the lr 13/2009 seriously ignored a Constitutional Court ruling, allowing the slaughter of thousands of wild animals in the absence of the conditions provided by law, with the risk of causing irreparable harm to the wildlife of the region.
Hence the request to suspend the hunting associations will not be restored until such conditions.
(not alone. In the face of the arrogance of the junta Tondo - which has adopted these standards and confident that any appeal would not have expected effects resulted in time - the association will proceed by challenging all acts administrative approval of plans for demolition of the hunting, seeking to protect the measure of immediate suspension). The provisions
just regional appeal by the Council of Ministers is another worrying sign of how the junta is prostrate Tondo hunting needs. The association
have recently noted as the Regional Wildlife Committee, the body that directs the policies of protection of wildlife and hunting management of the Regional Administration, which by law should represent all relevant stakeholders, is in fact monopolized by hunters, and this is because the regional councilor and director of the department responsible have chosen to be represented by two members of the hunting world.
In our region, concludes the associations, not only relies on hunters to the task of directing the policies of protection and study of wildlife, but it goes so far as to ignore a ruling by the Constitutional Court but to ensure the start of hunting season , confirming the predominance of the interests of shotguns up to protect the environment. Enacted by Act 157/1992.
