The Department of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environmental Protection of the Puglia region officially decreed the dissolution of the current one Management Committee ofTerritorial area of hunting Province of Lecce. At the same time an extraordinary commissioner was appointed for the ATC itself. It is about Luigi Melissano, resident in Cutrofiano and employee of the Region. The commissioner was granted the same powers as the management committees envisaged by the legislation currently in force.
The reimbursement of expenses, on the other hand, will not exceed 1500 euros, to be attributed to the relative budget funds of the Lecce area. What exactly happened? The local authority has taken note of the proposal of the Department of Agriculture, following to the letter the provisions of the paragraph 11 of article 11 of Regional Law 59 of 2017 ( "Rules for the protection of homeothermic wildlife, for the protection and planning of wildlife-environmental resources and for hunting").
The article is dedicated to the Territorial Areas of Hunting and the eleventh paragraph provides dissolution of the committees e appointment of the commissioner. Just last December, the Regional Council of Puglia had approved the new law on hunting, a text passed twenty years after the previous one. In addition to the reorganization of the ATCs, the other objectives to be achieved are the approval of the new one regional hunting ground plan and the enhancement of wildlife observatories.