Regarding the news that the organizing committee of the referendum Yes we abolish hunting he would be able to collect the 500 thousand signatures necessary for the submission of referendum questions, the Associations, through the Control Room of the Hunting World, intend to clarify. Once the signatures have been collected, the referendum questions must pass a double screening: by the Central Office for the Referendum set up at the Court of Cassation, for the examination of the validity of the signatures presented, with the novelty of the electronic signatures and the method of collection and subsequently of the Constitutional Court, to verify compliance with constitutional limits.
In this regard, the Control Room is ready to field all the skills necessary to acquire, after the deposit of signatures, any useful support for verifying the full compliance of the referendum proposal with the regulatory provisions and the constitutional provisions. The recognized hunting associations and the CNCN, gathered in the hunting control room, which closely followed the activity of the promoters from the very beginning of the presentation of the initiative, they are also ready to develop a valid campaign in support of the NO should the Referendum actually be called.
The Cabin takes the opportunity finally for emphasize the positive role that hunting, through the Associations, ATCs, CAs, Wildlife Companies and the hunters themselves, it is carrying out to protect the territory, local communities and the balance of nature, through countless initiatives throughout the national territory. Furthermore, remember that the hunting exercise constitutes, first of all for farmers and public administrations, a fundamental and absolutely irreplaceable barrier to prevent damage to crops, to infrastructures and contributes to the control of invasive species, which represent a threat to biodiversity, habitats and citizens themselves.
The hunting world, whatever the outcome of the collection of signatures of this referendum, is open in its Associations to constructive dialogue and collect the solicitations for sustainable hunting wildlife management to make known the spirit that animates it and the objectives it sets: therefore it will be activated with the Regions, Local Authorities, Environmental Associations - which have not already supported the Referendum for the abolition of the 157/92 law framework for the protection of wildlife - and agricultural, political and social forces, trade union representatives, for a comparison that places as an absolute priority, without preconceptions and ideologies, the protection of the territory and biodiversity. Components of the control room of the hunting world: Italian Federation of Hunting, National Free Hunting Association, Enalcaccia, Arcicaccia, AnuuMigratoristi, Italcaccia, Ente Producers Game, CNCN (National Nature Hunt Committee).