The Council of State has canceled the suspension of the Umbria TAR for hunting the hare and the moretta; the Region wins against anti-hunts thanks to the scientific data of Federcaccia.
In Umbria it will be possible again to hunt hare and moretta species, in recent days the Council of State with the Ordinance n.4607 of 21 November 2012 accepted the appeal of the Umbria Region against the suspension of the Umbria Tar 180 of 17 October 2012 and thus canceled the suspension granted to the association Victims of Hunting applicants against the 2012-2013 Regional Hunting Calendar.
Initially, the Regional Administrative Court of Umbria had in fact granted the suspension and postponed the decision on the merits to next spring; in this way the judges had definitively closed the hunt for Moretta for this hunting season while the Hare hunting it would have closed a week in advance, as per the modification to the regional hunting calendar.
With the new ordinance, on the other hand, the arguments present in the first appeal to the TAR are considered unfounded, as well as considering the possible lack of legitimacy of the Association Victims of the Hunt to propose an appeal. On the other hand, the reasons proposed by the Umbria Region in deviation from the ISPRA opinion regarding the maintenance of the tufted duck among the huntable species and the hunting season of the hare are considered valid.
The Region, also thanks to the important contribution of the Italian Federation of Hunting with the scientific data held by its National Resident Wildlife Office, was able to effectively challenge the suspension of the TAR before the Council of State, managing to obtain the cancellation of the suspension. Consequently, with a small passage in the Region, the date of the closure of the hare hunt could be restored to the second Sunday of December, that is the date that the hunters knew at the time of the renewal of the hunting license and the payment of the related taxes.
This ordinance undoubtedly represents another success for the hunting world for the collaboration provided by the Avifauna Migratoria Office and by Face Italia aimed at maintaining all huntable species in the Italian regions. Great satisfaction for the work done was expressed by the National Vice President of Federcaccia, Massimo Buconi, who underlined how the approach taken by Federcaccia and by the other Hunting Associations gathered in Face Italia has once again proved to be the winning one. Buconi then added, "Thanks and appreciation also go to the Umbria Region for its commitment in defending a method based on concrete scientific and technical data and not on suggestions, helping to restore first of all legal certainty and a correct application of the rules ".
Federcaccia Umbria, in thanking the Region, in the person of the Councilor Cecchini and the Regional Wildlife Observatory for having appealed against the suspension and its national offices for the decisive contribution offered in the case, declares itself as always available to continue to collaborate with the Regional Hunting Department also in view of the discussion on the merits of the appeal scheduled for next spring, convinced that only appropriate and documented technical-scientific data, and not the usual populist demagogy, can help defeat anti-hunt positions.
Even with this ruling, the Umbrian hunting calendar is undoubtedly one of the best national hunting calendars. We now ask the Region, among other things, for a strong and urgent review of the ATCs with a substantial intervention to improve them with a view to bureaucratic simplification, cost containment, and a more profitable management, especially of sedentary species, numerically and qualitatively.
November 27, 2012