Final pronunciation
The dispute over the borders of the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise on the Lazio side. With Ruling No. 104 of January 7, 2026, the Council of State, making a final ruling, rejected the appeal filed by a wildlife and hunting company against the ruling by the Lazio-Rome Regional Administrative Court (TAR) that clarified that the Park's boundary is that shown on the map attached to the 1976 Presidential Decree. The case arose from an appeal filed by the Park Authority against a decision to renew the concession for the wildlife and hunting company located in the Municipality of San Biagio Saracinisco (FR). In that case, the Park complained of an overlap between the boundaries of the company itself and those of the protected area: a clearly intolerable overlap, given the general ban on hunting in protected areas.
Technical and administrative checks
To resolve the issue, however, it was first necessary to define the actual boundaries of the Park on the Lazio side and to establish the actual situation, given that the Park considered those on the map attached to the 1976 Presidential Decree to be valid. This long-awaited provision allowed the entire Monte Marsicano area and other territories on the Abruzzo side to be included in the Park. However, the attached map, an integral part of the regulatory provision, also redrew the perimeter on the Lazio side. To resolve the matter, the Lazio Regional Administrative Court entrusted the technical and administrative verifications to ISPRA, which, in its opinion, provided an interpretation consistent with that supported by the Authority's Legal Service. Following the preliminary investigation, the Administrative Judge, in a ruling issued in the fall of 2024, finally clarified and ruled that the Park's boundaries on the Lazio side were those expanded by the 1976 Presidential Decree.
A situation that has continued over time
The affected wildlife and hunting association and the Lazio Region appealed this decision, while the Municipality of Campoli filed a third-party appeal, claiming it had not been involved in the first-instance decision. The Council of State, in its ruling of January 7, upheld the Lazio Regional Administrative Court's decision, establishing that, for the identification of the Park's perimeter, on the Lazio side, reference can only be made to the cartography attached to the 76 Presidential Decree, which complied with the procedures required by the legislation at the time. The ruling definitively and unequivocally clarifies a situation that had dragged on for far too long, causing misunderstandings and critical issues, and will now allow the Park's external boundaries to be established along the lines identified by law (source: PNALM).
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