We receive from the Hon. Raffaele Nevi (FI), Group Leader in the XIII Commission (Agriculture in the Chamber of Deputies, the text of a motion presented yesterday and approved by a very large majority aimed at soliciting the Government's intervention in terms of prevention and interventions on African Swine Fever.
In the text of the motion, which can be shared and with ideas that go in the desired direction of a rapid and incisive intervention towards the PSA and a revision of the current legislation on hunting and wildlife interventions, the Government undertakes, in particular:
to adopt initiatives to improve the prevention policy for the containment of wild boars, also through changes to the current regulatory provisions;
to ensure speedy updating of the database relating to the actual number of wild boars starting from the culled animals as well as the damage recorded in the area (already announced as imminent by the Minister of Ecological Transition on 1 June last, in response to a query to immediate response in the Assembly), evaluating the modification of hunting calendars where extraordinary needs, such as the current one, make it indispensable;
to adopt, to the extent of its competence, further urgent initiatives in order to contain the proliferation of wild boars, also by providing for rules that allow for more effective wildlife control throughout the national territory, extending the number of authorized subjects as long as they are in possession of the hunting license and of specific training, to be combined with other numerical control systems of the population based on recognized scientific methods.