Hunting: Piedmont, in the areas adjacent to the parks, hunting activities will be allowed only for hunters residing in the municipalities of these areas; LR11 / 2013 is unconstitutional.
The Piedmont Region, with the law n. 11 of 2013, had regulated the so-called "hunting residence", effectively opening to all hunters enrolled in the various ATC (Territorial Hunting Areas) the possibility of hunting also in the Contiguous Area, in contrast with the provisions of the framework law on parks ( law n.394 of 1991), which allows hunting in contiguous areas only to those who reside in the municipalities of the area itself.
The Liguria Region had also legislated in the same way, but then there was the intervention of the Constitutional Court, which declared the constitutional illegitimacy of this provision of the Ligurian law. On 19/5/14, with sentence n ° 136, the Constitutional Court also declared the constitutional illegitimacy of the Piedmontese Regional Law 11/2013. Following this sentence, the situation, for the moment, returns to the one prior to Regional Law 11.
Therefore in the Contiguous Area in the 2014/15 hunting season, except for new legislative interventions, only residents of the municipalities of the Contiguous Area will be able to hunt, which are the following: Baldissero, Beinasco, Borgaro Torinese, Brandizzo, Bruino, Brusasco, Carignano, Carmagnola, Casalgrasso, Castagneto Po, Castiglione Torinese, Cavagnolo, Chivasso, Cigliano, Crescentino, Gassino Torinese, La Loggia, Lauriano, Lombriasco, Mazze ', Moncalieri, Monteu Da Po, Nichelino, Orbassano, Pino Torinese, Rivalta di Torino, Rondissone, Saluggia, San Mauro Torinese, San Raffaele Cimena, San Sebastiano Da Po, Settimo Torinese, Turin, Torrazza Piemonte, Venaria, Verolengo, Verrua Savoia, Villareggia, Villastellone. The hunters residing in one of these municipalities can hunt in all the territories of the Contiguous Area, obviously on condition of having the registration to the relative ATC, without regard to the Province. For example, the resident of Saluggia (VC) can also hunt in Carignano (TO) or Casalgrasso (CN), because they are always Municipalities of the same Contiguous Area of the Po Park and Collina Torinese.
More fortunate are the residents of the Municipality of Casalgrasso, as it is a municipality included in the contiguous areas of both the Parco del Po Torinese and the Parco del Po Cuneese. Therefore, without prejudice to the registration to the relevant ATCs, they could hunt in both contiguous areas. The same applies to the residents of Crescentino and Verrua Savoia, as regards the Po Torinese and Vercellese-Alessandrino Parks.
For the moment, the tabellation of the boundaries of the Contiguous Area is not mandatory and it is not even known if and who should carry it out. The only obligation for managers, pursuant to Regional Law 19/09, is to ensure the necessary information on the boundaries of the Contiguous Areas. The Management Body of the Protected Areas of the Po and the Torinese Hills performs this task by providing the topographic maps of the Contiguous Areas, publishing them on its website at parchipocollina.to.it/par.php.
21 June 2014
Source: Parks