As is known, on the initiative of the European Commission the revision procedure of the Key concepts relating to the various Member States of the Union. The latter were invited to proceed by organizing a "transparent data collection process involving all stakeholders". Our country is also interested in this process, now in its final stages, and in the past week two meetings have been held on this topic. The first, Wednesday 17 October, saw the meeting of the Director General Dr. Maria Carmela Giarratano of the Ministry of the Environment - interlocutor with the European Commission -; ISPRA, the national technical institute of reference; the representatives of the hunting offices of the Regions; the representatives of the environmental associations and the institutional and technical representatives of the hunting associations.
At this first working table for Federcaccia there were present in addition to the national president Gian Luca Dall'Olio, Michele Sorrenti, Daniel Tramontana and Valter Trocchi as Federation researchers. With them also Emiliano amore from ANLC. Dr. Michele Sorrenti presented a report, enriched by numerous slides, aimed at analyzing the memories of the ISPRA and the data produced by the AVVs, demonstrating that many assessments of the Institute must be the subject of careful investigation. At the end of the meeting, lasted for many hours, Dr. Giarratano, has decided to establish two further moments of confrontation: one with the technicians of the AAVV on Friday 19 October, and a third, still to be held, with the technicians of the Regions.
The update meeting for all parties is scheduled for Friday 26 October. At the meeting with ISPRA this time Federcaccia presented itself again with Sorrenti and Trocchi, accompanied by Professor Baldaccini and Alfonso Lenzoni, to deepen and illustrate even more in detail data, observations to ISPRA documents, international scientific reading and research carried out in support of their requests for the maintenance of the closing dates of migratory bird species to 31st January, as required by current legislation. The comparison with ISPRA cannot be defined as satisfactory at the moment, since there has been no evaluation of the decades, but only discussion on the works and the observations presented. Certainly ISPRA does not appear very willing to change its guidelines. At the end of the working table, Dr. Eugenio Duprè of the Ministry of the Environment declared that nothing has yet been decided and that the meeting with the Regions must be awaited. On the 26th, the hunting associations will still have the opportunity to exhibit their evaluations. Federcaccia will continue its work of pointing out the facts that demonstrate the correctness of the proposals of the Control room of the AAVV.