La Lombardy region has already started the approval process for the next hunting calendar. Federcaccia Lombardy after the first note of February 2, today sent a further note in which he recalls the Department and the competent Office not to let the Incidence Assessment turn into a Trojan horse to introduce unsolicited restrictions. The note was also sent to the regional councilors Floriano Massardi, Giovanni Malanchini, Barbara Mazzali, Paolo Franco e Viviana Beccalossi. These are the salient passages:
1) to WIN on the calendar it is only necessary in the absence of Vinca on the Hunting Wildlife Plan;
2) into 8 out of 11 Lombard provinces the Calendar is already the implementation of Hunting Wildlife Plans subjected to VINCA;
3) In any case, for the Ministry it is sufficient, if necessary, a reduced and simplified procedure;
4) The calendars approved in the last hunting seasons were already compliant and no adjustments are necessary (read restrictions).
For these reasons Federcaccia has firmly invited the Department and the competent Office to start and governing the procedure pursuing the objective of giving full support to the calendar system already followed, recommending to avoid burdens or, worse, outsourcing to third parties. Federcaccia will not accept reprimands of responsibility on the choices of an act, the calendar, within the competence of Directorate General for Agriculture, which is believed to have the skills and data necessary to support its measures.