In recent days, the Federcaccia Campania has sent the Region its amendments to the proposed amendment to the Regional Law 26/2012 on hunting activities.
On Friday 30 November, the Federcaccia Campania sent the President of the Campania Regional Council, the President of the Campania Regional Council, the President of the 8th Regional Council Commission, the 8th Regional Council Commission Members, the Campania Regional Council, Group leader of the Campania Regional Council its amendments to the proposed amendment to Regional Law 26/2012, concerning "Regulations for the protection of wild fauna and discipline of hunting in Campania".
As President Buglione stated, Federcaccia Campania once again tries to open a constructive dialogue with the Campania Region, hoping to listen in the interest of all: hunters, public and private institutions, citizens.
Below is the text of the proposed amendments.
Proposal of modification at the initiative of the Director Pietro Foglia to the Regional Law n. 26 of 9 August 2012 "rules for the protection of wildlife and discipline of hunting in Campania".
Notes of the Italian Federation of Hunting - Text amended and corrected:
The Italian Hunting Federation of Campania, while understanding the reasons behind the initiative of Councilor Pietro Foglia, aimed at responding to the complaints raised by the regional affairs department of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers regarding the constitutional legitimacy profile of some articles of the LR n. 26 of 9/8/2012, considers it necessary and useful that the interventions, in acknowledging the complaints formulated and the inaccuracies present in the text, do not create further reasons for contradictions as well as restrictions for hunting. To this end, Federcaccia proposes the following amendments to art. 1 paragraphs 9-12-13-14 of the proposal of the director Pietro Foglia.
- Art. 1 - paragraph 9: to be repealed. The text must be confirmed as present in article 14 - paragraph 5, lett. C, LR 26/2012.
Reasons:
- The provision that allows the training of dogs in specially prepared areas must be adopted by the GR and must follow the procedure of all other regulations. It cannot be governed by the hunting calendar and undergo any changes from year to year.
- Art. 1 - paragraph 12: modify only the number of days in which dog training can be allowed, perhaps reducing them from 45 to 35, leaving unchanged what is stated in art. 24, paragraph 5 of Regional Law 26/2012.
Reasons:
- erroneously there is a tendency to confuse dog training, training and competitions with hunting activities. This is an error that does not consider the nature of the athlete-dog, who, like any other athlete, needs continuous training to be kept in the best physical conditions and training to acquire an adequate hunting education, obedience to commands, connection with the hunter etc ...
Having an untrained auxiliary at the start of the hunting season is equivalent to sending an athlete out on the field for a competition without having trained and trained properly. Therefore, the possibility that these subjects are trained and / or trained in view of the hunting season in uncultivated or wooded land, free from crops in certain periods and days, cannot be precluded. Therefore the rule foreseen by the art. 24 - paragraph 5 of Regional Law 26/2012 should not be modified.
Otherwise, an activity that has nothing to do with hunting is penalized. Finally, with regard to the possibility of killing breeding fauna in the special ZACs established for this purpose, this exercise can only be attributable but not configured as a hunting activity and, therefore, cannot be subjected to the timing of hunting.
- Art. 1 - paragraph 13, should be rewritten as follows: "hunt in the woodlands of wooded areas affected in whole or in the majority by fire in the 10 years following the same".
- Art. 1 - paragraph 14, replace the term "June 30" with "August 31" and delete "under penalty of exclusion".
In any case, it should be specified that in order to provide for the consent of the management bodies for the exercise of hunting migratory birds in an ATC other than that of belonging, it is also necessary to modify paragraph 1 of art. 36 of the Regional Law n. 26/2012 eliminating the words "to sedentary fauna". In this way, the management of migratory fauna is also entrusted to the ATC bodies.
Furthermore, a further modification of Art. 36, paragraph 4, lett. a, eliminating the words "one member for each association" otherwise it becomes problematic to establish the management bodies of 19 representatives in compliance with the percentages provided.
Finally, it should be emphasized that the representation of agricultural and hunting associations in the management bodies of ATCs, as provided for by art. 36, paragraph 4, lett. a of the Regional Law n. 26/2012, not only does not take into account the effective representativeness of each association, but above all it appears in contrast with art. 14 paragraph 10 of law 157/92 which reads as follows: "In the governing bodies of the territorial hunting areas, the equal presence, in a total of 60% of the members, of the representatives ....... of the agricultural organizations ... .. and of the associations must be ensured national hunting…. Omitted ".
3 December 2012
Hunting Federation