Hunting: Tuscany, the "mess" of hunting huts, fears of culling and the regional legislation that clarifies.
In recent days, conflicting news has spread regarding the hunting lodges with the alleged subjection of these to the regional legislation that regulates building permits and consequent demolition in the case of found abuses. It all stems from the statements of Franco Mungai, mayor of Massarosa in the province of Lucca, who has focused on over 500 hunting huts in the municipal area which, according to him, risk being demolished because they could be abusive. “The current regional law - explained the mayor - provides that the construction of hunting huts is subject to the same rules that regulate building permits, thus providing, in some cases, even the acquisition of landscape authorization. A legislative mess of difficult and quirky interpretation that we want to solve in order to safeguard centuries of rural and hunting tradition ”.
Continuing, Mugai then explained, "For this reason we have invited all the hunting associations in the area to make contact with our offices where we will examine the issue trying to find viable solutions, at the same time starting a comparison in the Region to find a synthesis of our doubts and to be able to give certain answers to hunters ”.
The regional councilor Marco Spinelli then intervened on the question, who brought up the Regional Law on hunting to clarify and consider unfounded the news spread regarding fixed hunting stalks. Spinelli has in fact declared, “Those reported by some newspapers and blogs are alarming and unfounded statements on the regional law governing fixed hunting stalks (65/2013 which modified the previous text). In a nutshell, from what I have read it seems that the Region has raged against stalking ”.
Continuing, the councilor said, "The mayor of Massarosa, Franco Mungai, among other things, said that it is a legislative mess of difficult and quirky interpretation, and that the current law provides that the construction of hunting lodges is subject to the same rules for building permits'. Here, I would like to explain that this is not the case ”.
Spinelli then explained that "Following the ruling of the Constitutional Court which declared the regulations of the Veneto region illegitimate, it is thanks to our law that all the fixed posts in our territory have not ended up being subject to the permits required to build any other structure. building. In fact, Tuscany, with Law 65/2013, has responded to the problems by defining the characteristics that the stalking must comply with (Article 6 bis - that is, anchored to the ground without foundation works, immediately and easily removable upon expiry of the authorization, with light material or material typical of the area, without conditions that allow for residential use, which do not cause permanent changes to the places ...) ".
No mess, therefore, and no regulatory cavilliness. - Spinelli confirmed - In reality, we have clarified; ours is a law that puts the rules in order and safeguards the majority of existing stalking. The legislation obviously intervenes on what is within the competence of the Region, other aspects remain, however, the competence of the State ”.
Finally Spinelli concluded by underlining, “how the Council of Ministers, after challenging the Veneto law, felt it did not have to do the same with the Tuscan legislation; evidently judging it constitutional and congruous ”.
(February 22, 2014)