Conviction and costs
The Regional Administrative Court of Lombardy, Brescia section, has annulled a large portion of the wild boar selection hunting regulations relating to the CAC Bergamo Prealps. In practice, the request of 73 hunters was accepted, assisted among others by the lawyer Antonio Bana, with the consequent sentence to pay the costs (between 12 thousand and 14 thousand euros).
Regional ordinance
The judges went well beyond what had previously been the case law on the matter, interpreting a recently published ordinance, 105 of 2023 issued by the Lombardy Region (“Provisions for the prevention and control of the spread of African Swine Fever”).
Bana's words
Lawyer Bana, who is also president of Assoarmieri, expressed himself as follows: "In any case, the inadequacy created in the context of the committee on both a legal and faunal level is evident. The Cac stands as the only false note, in antithesis to the global chorus of the rest of the citizens, who ask for the depopulation of the wild boar. Selection hunters, with approximately 1.500 animals killed in 2023, have proven to be the most valid tool for the containment of this harmful and invasive species. It is logical to imagine that the Lombardy Region, which the judges also order to carry out the sentence in question, will only be able to take note of the formal illegality of the CAC's acts then and today".