Arcicaccia and Legambiente ask the Roman Minister for a detailed report of the last year - "How are the funds managed for the hunting committee which in all of 2010 was convened only once?".
"We ask Minister Saverio Romano to know in detail the administrative and financial support that the Ministry of Agricultural Policies has 'provided' in the last 12 months to support the activities of the National Wildlife Hunting Technical Committee (Ctfvn), whose advice, however, was considered to be little important from the ministers who preceded him: in the whole of 2010 they called him only once! ": this is the request contained in a joint letter sent by Osvaldo Veneziano, national president of Arci Caccia and Antonino Morabito, National Head of Fauna and Biodiversity of Legambiente, to the Minister.
The application (submitted pursuant to Law number 241 of 1990, as the requesting associations are part of the Ctfvn) concerns, in particular, all the administrative measures and acts taken by the department in question and which should have financed the activities of a committee which has not even been reunited!
"On the other hand - reports a joint note from Arci Caccia and Legambiente - it is appropriate to recall the important composition of the National Wildlife Hunting Technical Committee, the technical-advisory body of the Ministry for what concerns the application of Law number 157 of 92: three representatives appointed by the Minister of Agriculture and Forests, three representatives appointed by the Minister of the Environment, three representatives of the Regions appointed by the Permanent Conference for relations between the State, the Regions and the autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano, three representatives of the provinces appointed from the Union of the Provinces of Italy, the director of the former National Institute for Wildlife (today Ispra), a representative for each recognized national hunting association, three representatives of the most representative agricultural professional organizations at national level, four representatives of the associations of environmental protection present in Council no national association for the environment, a representative of the Italian Zoological Union, a representative of the National Body for the Italian Cynophilia, a representative of the International Council for Hunting and Game Conservation, a representative of the National Body for the Protection of Animals, a representative of the Italian Alpine Club ".
“It is the second time in a few weeks - continues the note - that the Ministry of Agricultural Policies has been consulted on the management of the National Wildlife Hunting Technical Committee.
In recent days, Susanna Cenni, deputy of the Democratic Party, has in fact presented a question to understand why, with a specific decree, allocations of about 90 thousand euros already committed for the activity of the Ctfvn, have been 'hijacked' to cover 60 thousand euros respectively of "travel" expenses managed by the Italian delegation of the Cic (International Hunting Committee), whose registered office seems to be located in a private dental practice, and 30 thousand euros in favor of Ispra, a body supervised by the Ministry of the Environment , to produce scientific studies drawn up and delivered only a few months before funding! "
"An operation therefore of administrative transparency, promoted by Arci Caccia and Legambiente, to understand the inconsistencies between the failure to use an important consultative and consultation tool required by law, the Ctfvn, and to know in detail how public funding is managed in the meantime specifically intended for this ".