The Regional Council ofARCI Hunting Puglia, feels the need to express all his disappointment with this civil complaint document. The hunting world in Puglia, is going through one of the darkest moments in its history, we believe it is second only to the years of the referendum. A series of circumstances undermined a minority, which, in its small way, intervened to help the regional budgets at the right time, but this is never reported by the media, because it is more often than not a poacher "pinched" by the Carabinieri Forestali on the prowl, often and willingly confusing the two categories, which are quite distinct, but which often makes it convenient to combine print media for the spirit of economy. As would a balanced and modern rule of law, minorities should be protected, or at least guaranteed in compliance with the level playing field.
However, in our days, all this is not happening, on the contrary, the insults on social networks, the lack of respect for the rules and the lack of respect, dictated (perhaps) by the restrictions of the new regional law that limits the representation of hunting associations to institutional tables. , led to the rise of movements that have little or nothing to do with hunting. Those who should guarantee this minority, which ensures voluntary work in wildlife management, supervision, the containment of damage to agriculture, which also contributes conspicuously, as already mentioned, to the regional budgets, are the institutions. Those institutions that have contributed to creating confusion and despair among the hunters who are paying the highest price, and not only in economic terms. About 10 months after the approval of the new Regional Law 59/2017, which also governs the hunting activity, much desired by the same institutions, there is still no trace of the implementation regulation despite the fact that it is the same law, in art. 11 paragraph 7, to set the deadline of 60 days within which to approve said regulation.
The approval of the regulation, for example, should have governed the issue of the authorizations of the daily and annual permits of the ATCs, where required (Article 11 paragraph 6 of Law 59/2017). On the contrary, the lack of approval of the aforementioned regulation has generated confusion and discrepancies in the procedures, leaving the commissioners (appointed for this purpose) the right to operate as they could or wanted. In some cases, exasperating the administrative procedures, as a result of this, many hunters have not been able, after so many years, to participate in the opening of the hunting season outside the province of belonging. Furthermore, the implementing regulation could have envisaged the hypothesis of a package of free days to be used on migratory game for extra-provincial ones, (proposed by the hunting associations), saving hunters time and money. In the 2018/19 hunting calendar, the same deadline of the previous year for the issue of daily permits was reported with a "copy and paste", that is "from the third Sunday of September", forgetting the unfortunately negative news that introduced the infamous Law 59/2017, it followed that many extra-provincial hunters were unable to take advantage of the pre-opening outside their provincial territory in the absence of the required authorizations.
Not to mention hunters who reside in locations bordering other provinces with properties falling within the same, in fact, in the absence of authorization they have been prevented from practicing hunting on their land, we wonder if this is acceptable. The ATC commissioner (art.11 paragraph 11 law 59/2017) seemed the panacea for all evils, it would have served, according to them, to facilitate the realization of the new organizational design of the ATC, with the approval of the new PFVR, as you know waived and still not yet approved. So we ask ourselves: was it necessary to commission the ATC and delegitimize the legitimate representatives of hunters, farmers, etc…? The appointment of Commissioners is also not without criticism, in fact, the same have been identified among regional or provincial personnel as required by article 11 paragraph 11 of law 59/2017. Well, the art. 11, paragraph 10, of Law 59/2017, states: “the Region has the power to supervise, control and coordinate the activities of the ATC Management Committee. One would say… controlled and controllers !!! The hunting world is tired of this "management" and we do not believe we should always resort to the Magistracy or the Administrative Judge to see our rights guaranteed. The Hunting Associations already pay a very high gap towards the environmental / animal rights associations, which, thanks to the non-profit label, record a not insignificant economic advantage in front of the Administrative Judge.
A separate discussion must be made for those who should guarantee correctness and compliance with the laws. By this I refer to the bodies responsible for hunting surveillance. For the past few days we have been witnessing reprehensible "shows" in our countryside. The lack of a certain point of reference such as that of the Provincial Police it is now a distant memory and the Carabinieri Forestali cannot make up for this lack by covering the entire territory with every consequence regarding the lack of vigilance and the proliferation of crimes that will inevitably follow. I believe that the time has come to say enough to these continuous harassments and, from this moment on, the hunting world is called to gather and unity for see their rights guaranteed without "if" and without "but". The proclamations of some of our colleague of hunting passion, who continue to flaunt optimism and boast uncertain results do not bother us, the reality, on the other hand, is a widespread confusion and a profound discomfort that we hunters are suffering. This is meant to be just an outlet for a representation of citizens who love their passion and who they are tired of chasing their rights without any protection and guarantee that should be recognized to them, simply for their status as citizens of a modern and civil state.