Less bureaucracy and simpler procedures for Lombard hunters. Thanks to the amendments to Simplification law, approved on Tuesday from Lombardy Regional Council, numerous changes have been made to the hunting rules in our region. Absolute protagonists of the changes the commissioner Fabio Rolfi and the councilor Floriano Massardi, both from Brescia, who with great satisfaction can use the slogan “Less bureaucracy and less constraints for hunters who carry out a fundamental activity for the Lombard ecosystem with responsibility”. From our point of view, we can only be satisfied that they have been heard all the requests of the hunting world.
The first approved amendment provides that the hunting card returns to be sent directly to the home, as it was until 2015. Still on the card, another important novelty is represented by the marking of the garments, which can take place after recovery, while before it had to be done immediately. This amendment does justice to our hunters who, due to the lack of clarity of the rule, had to suffer several unjustified penalties in 2018. Then there is the overcoming of 55 days for hunting, a limitation foreseen only in our Region. Another important novelty concerns the hunting qualification exam, which can be done at the age of 17 and no longer at the eighteenth; it is not intended to open the hunt for minors, but simply to prevent the new hunter who turns his birthday in the second semester from losing the hunting season.
In this regard, another amendment provides that the hunting qualification exam can be carried out in any UTR of the Region, not only in that of the Province of residence. Hunting from fixed posting will also be allowed near rural buildings, avoiding what has happened up to now, that is, the revocation of postings in the vicinity of this type of structures. Furthermore the recovery of injured game can take place up to a distance of 200 meters, against the current 100 meters. Another amendment changes the concept of measuring distances, which will finally take place following the morphology of the land and not as the crow flies, which had led to the revocation of numerous fixed postings, precisely due to the failure to respect the distance provided by the law. Finally, fox hunting will be allowed, until January 31, that is a month longer than the original forecast also in the Alpine Districts.
The commissioner then promoted an amendment relating to the obligation to use colored garments for those who practice wild boar hunting. In the exercise of wild boar hunting in the collective forms of hunt, turn and beat, it will be mandatory for all participants to wear jacket with bib and back in high visibility colors, as well as headgear with the same characteristics "I wanted to intervene in defense of the safety of hunters since wild boar hunting takes place in wooded areas where there is not always a correct visibility".