Horses: Hon. Monica Faenzi presents to the Chamber of Deputies a bill on the construction of covered enclosures for equestrian activities.
The Honorable Monica Faenzi presented in recent days to the Chamber of Deputies, an articulated and innovative bill with an eloquent title: "Provisions on construction, for the construction of covered enclosures aimed at encouraging the conduct of equestrian activities".
This is a legislative vacuum that existed in our legal system that Mr Faenzi, a member of the XIII Agriculture Commission, as well as an experienced rider, and therefore competent in the field of horse riding, would like to fill with this bill. "This bill intends to support and enhance the equestrian activity, whether it is carried out in the social, recreational-training or competitive field - explains the honorable member of the PDL -, but also in the tourism and sports field, through the construction of enclosures covered areas able to accommodate horses, in order to allow equestrian practice to take place at any time of the year and promote the economic development and cultural growth of equestrian centers and similar structures, throughout the national territory, in complete respect of the environment ".
In fact, in recent years the number of equestrian centers and associations that carry out equestrian activities throughout the country has grown considerably, confirming that equestrian activities and in particular those attributable to the so-called equestrian tourism, play a social and economic of considerable importance for our country.
"Consequently, it seems acceptable to increase the values and principles that are identified in the proposal, be it sporting or cultural - continues Faenzi -, which make this wonderful animal the protagonist through the enhancement of its qualities and multiple current uses, in the agricultural, tourism, pedagogical, therapeutic and others ".
The provisions set out in the proposed law pursue two directions, both having the same purpose: the carrying out of equestrian activity throughout the year, through the construction of covered fences, commonly called paddocks, which help to safeguard the horse health and protection and therefore allow equestrian centers to spread the practice of correct relational dynamics between animal humans and the environment more widely. For this purpose, article 1 intends to protect and encourage equestrian activities, with purposes of significant social, recreational-training or competitive, tourist and sporting value, through interventions aimed at the construction of covered enclosures intended to house specimens of equine breed. , in compliance with the concurrent legislative power in the building sector and within the existing general regulatory framework.
The following article 2 refers to a decree of the Minister of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies, in agreement with the State-Regions Conference, the definition of standard models for the construction, expansion, restructuring and conversion of equestrian production facilities. of the artifacts in question referred to in the previous article 1.
There is a standard cost, the amount of which must not exceed 500 euros, to finance the subsequent checks by the municipal authority.
Furthermore, it is intended to establish, as foreseen by the following paragraph 2, that construction companies that manufacture standard products and self-certify them, as compliant, are not subject to any other authorization. In this way the aim is to speed up the authorization and bureaucratic procedures necessary for the realization of the infrastructural works identified in the covered enclosures inside the equestrian centers or other structures where the equestrian activity takes place.
The following paragraph 3 specifies that the manufactured articles made in deviation from the authorized standard models, follow the normal authorization procedures.
Article 3 provides for checks on urban-building activity, establishing that for the construction of covered enclosures, provided for by this law, the manager or manager of the competent office of the Municipality on which the building is built, having ascertained the execution in deviation from the standard, it provides for the expropriation of the artifact.
Lastly, Article 4 dictates administrative sanctions both for offenders whose attestation is false and mendacious for the construction of the standard artifacts provided for in paragraph 2 of article 2, and administrative sanctions for the manager or manager of the competent office at the time completion of the works, in the event of failure to comply with the controls referred to in Article 3 above.
Furthermore, for particular infringements or violations of regional urban planning regulations caused by the construction of the artifacts envisaged by the provisions of this proposed law that cause landscape disfigurement located in the faunal territories that suffer evident damage, the Regions provide for further administrative pecuniary sanctions.