During the Weidmanns'Heil 2011 event held in Spello (PG), Luca Stincardini, from the technical-legislative office of the Libera Caccia, presented a report containing his observations resulting from a working group on the future prospects of the hunting regime in derogation.
Stincardini emphasizes, in the context of preventing damage to agriculture caused by volatile species such as starling, the question of the use of means of recall to be "re-discussed after the" reformulated negative opinion "issued by ISPRA".
According to Libera Caccia their use is not expressly prohibited by European legislation, therefore possibly allowed in the context of hunting in derogation aimed at preventing damage to crops "in the absence of other satisfactory solutions" and the failure of deterrents. Just referring to the Cancellation writes Libera Caccia, "if at least threatened with the use of plastic decoys, pinwheels and swivels, it would guarantee a concrete result, fully fulfilling the criteria and application requirements of the derogation regime not only aimed at preventing damage to agricultural crops, but also to the connected and not secondary requirement of reaching the numerical quota of transfers to be killed ".
Referring then to the application of hunting in derogation in the respect of certain hunting traditions, Stincardini exposes the question of the problematic calculation of small quantities. ISPRA has always admitted the absolute lack of sufficient data and based on this lack the Institute does not express favorable opinions with respect to the requests. Libera Caccia, on the other hand, makes it known that the requested data exist as they are supplied in large quantities and in a homogeneous way from all over the national territory, at the same time there are no official information from which it is possible to deduce the worsening of the conservation status of the species subject to derogation.
Stincardini suggests giving greater importance to the activity of the regional wildlife observatories in collecting the type of information necessary. According to an official note in 2005 by the head of the Derogations Operating Unit of the EU Commission, in 2005 it is "the responsibility of the Member State to determine the small quantities on the basis of the best information available".
Concluding the presentation of the contents of his report, Stincardini addresses a clear invitation to the Observatory of Natural Habitats and Faunal Populations and to the Fauna Management Services of the Provinces of Perugia and Terni to take action in requesting ISPRA for the application of hunting in derogation from Finch already during the current hunting season; to this end, the Authorities must carry out a correct calculation of the "small quantity" by referring to the data provided by Birdlife regarding the size of the population of the species in question.
Finally, Stincardini's speech closes: "Our Association will make the legislative documents, deeds, cards and technical reports necessary already appropriately prepared for the determination of the already calculated" small quantity "available to the institutions, which will enrich the survey work on the species carried out jointly between the Province of Perugia and the Observatory in the years 2008/2009 and which we hope will allow Umbrian hunters to finally take advantage of a traditional form of sampling legitimized in other Regions (Veneto and Lombardy) ".
Source: Technical Report on “Exemptions: what prospects? by ANLC