Question time
"We do not intend to interrupt legislative work, nor that of the government, because of a letter from a bureaucrat." This is what the Minister of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forestry, in a statement released by the ANSA news agency, said. Francesco Lollobrigida he responded, during question time in the Senate, to the prefigured risk of EU infringement for Italy expressed in the question by Senator Gisella Naturale (M5s) regarding the reform of the Caccia Bill.
Broad convergence
"The approval of the reform of Law 157 of 92, which took place yesterday with regard to the amendments in the joint Senate Committees on Agriculture and the Environment, gives us hope," the minister continued in his statement, "that parliamentary work will complete a process that began right here in the previous legislature, when you were in government. There was broad consensus on what the Committee approved, and the conclusion was: you must reform Law 157 of 92, and that is what we, unlike the previous government, are doing."
The arrival in the Chamber
Hunting, the minister emphasized, "is a legal activity, regardless of whether one wants it or not, agrees with it or not. Like all legal activities, it must be regulated, and those who act outside the rules must be punished. The bill will now proceed, first in the Chamber of Deputies and then in the Chamber of Deputies. Regarding the exchange of letters between offices, and I assure you that all considerations emanating from the European Commission are subject to technical scrutiny when they involve matters between bureaucrats, if the bureaucrats discuss them, then, having acknowledged their decisions, the politicians can express their views during the debate."
Wildlife-hunting companies
Lollobrigida then clarified that "the conversion of wildlife and hunting farms into agritourism and hunting farms will not be automatic, but will be authorized by the Regions following an administrative process that requires compliance with particularly stringent conditions." "The Italian legal system," Minister Lollobrigida concluded, "considers a criminal, a delinquent, anyone who commits a crime—not someone who engages in an activity permitted by law, but rather anyone who intends to prevent it by violating it. This also applies to hunting." (ANSA Source)
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