Double satisfaction
The Council of State rejects the request for precautionary measures advanced by the environmental and animal rights associations in Lombardy for both of them and Emilia Romagna, accepting the reasons presented by the Regions and by Federcaccia through its legal and technical experts of its Studies and Research Office.
Who filed the appeal
As regards Emilia and Lombardy, the appeal was presented by the League for the Abolition of Hunting (LAC), WWF, the Italian League for the Protection of Birds (LIPU), the National League for the Defense of the Dog (LNDC) and the Anti-Vivisection League (LAV).
The sentence
One of the reasons for the rejections is the following: "The Italian methodology, adopted by ISPRA, for determining migration, is not the one on a statistical basis, according to which a species is considered "in migration" when the majority or the average of the population "starts to migrate" (editor's note: French system), but the one on a "precautionary precautionary basis" which considers the species in migration when it is considered
identify “the earliest movements on the territory”.