Hunting: Piedmont, green light for the new bill on Hunting Activities; for Sacchetti “significant innovations”, for the opponents instead “total deregulation”.
The new bill for the regulation of the hunting activity in Piedmont has been presented in the Region amidst applause and controversy. For Claudio Sacchetti, Regional Councilor for Agriculture, it is a bill with "significant innovations introduced that allow us to believe that it is not a simple" modernization "of the regional law on hunting but a new regulation of the sector". For the opponents, however, from Monica Cerutti (Sel) to the former grillino Fabrizio Biolé it is “basically a liberalization”, a “total deregulation of the sector”.
The political clash over hunting, therefore, starts again. Yesterday has approved a bill of 36 articles that dictates the new guidelines for the sector that are "attentive also to the most interesting innovations introduced by the legislation of other Regions", explains the commissioner. The bill deferred to subsequent regulations approved by the regional council the times, ways and species that can be hunted. But in the report accompanying the text it can be read how it also speaks of the possibility of regulating the marketing of culled animals but specifying that "it is not a question of attributing an economic advantage to the hunting activity as such, and for it to the individual hunter, but to make the most of the concept of fauna as a public good ".
The rules, therefore, provide for a regularization not only of the protection and methods of hunting "but also of the destination of the culled animals for purposes of public interest (first and foremost), to compensate for the growing damage caused by fauna to agricultural crops, compensation now made perhaps by the scarcity of financial resources available to the Regions and local authorities ”. The commissioner explains that the text of the bill was drafted in collaboration with the legal office of the junta and was created with the aim of defining general guidelines in an attempt "to dampen the ideological conflict".
The political clash, on the other hand, will take place. “The council - Cerutti attacks - does not seem to have taken the path of common sense. Our response can only be an initiative to block the approval of the bill ”. For the parent company of Sel "Sacchetti re-proposes a" fundamentalist proposal that goes in the direction of a wild deregulation from huntable species to hunting reserves ".
And Biolé adds: "At a first reading, the dusting off of" workhorses "by Councilor Sacchetti stands out, such as the possibility of hunting in Natural Parks, hunting in derogation of protected species, the extension of the number of species and the number of heads of the game bag and the disproportionate extension of the hunting period ".
6 March 2013
Source: La Stampa - Turin