Hunting to the harmful. "It is good for the agricultural world to know, once and for all, that it is facing a careless government, bolted to usurped seats and inadequate for its role, to the point of failing in the malicious intent to obstruct the legislative activity of the Lombardy Region in the fight against otters ". The Councilor for Agriculture of Lombardy, Gianni Fava, says this about the activity of contrasting nutria.
The commissioner announces that the Constitutional Court agreed with the Lombardy Region in the context of the appeal presented by the Government, which had raised constitutional objections on the Regional Law 32/2014 on the eradication of coypu.
In particular, the Government had argued that the Region had overruled state powers, since Lombardy had foreseen the convocation of the prefectures to the provincial coordination tables.
FULL LEGITIMACY OF THE LOMBARD REGULATION - “Palazzo Chigi - Fava summarizes - illegitimately supported the provision of tools to be used in the control activity, such as firearms and trap cages. Well, the Court rejected both exceptions, arguing instead the full legitimacy of the Lombard law ”. "The fury against the Region borders on persecution - he explains - and it is an attitude that finds no explanation, other than a useless flag war, costly for citizens and which, specifically, damages agricultural entrepreneurs, Lombard citizens and first agricultural reality in Europe ".
ATTITUDE OF THE SINGULAR GOVERNMENT - Furthermore, continues Fava, "the attitude of the Government is singular, which, first, demolishes the system of the Provinces and the Provincial Police, bodies responsible for the control of wildlife in the area, then, by decree, modifies the status of the nutria, forcing the Region to intervene with its own norm and its own program, in order to continue to face the problem; not satisfied, with the environmental colleague the Executive forces us to ask Ispra for an opinion, with the consequence that the application of the control plans has become even more complicated. And to crown an insane plan, the government also finds time to challenge our law, to hear from the Constitutional Court that it had made a mistake ”.
REGION CONTINUES IN ITS COMMITMENT - “If it were not surreal - says Fava - one would think that there is a design by the national government aimed at preventing the Lombardy Region from solving the nutria problem and giving relief to the territory and the agricultural world. But the Region was wrong, if it thinks that we turn our backs on our citizens. Although the Government is progressively depriving us of human and financial resources to tackle the nutria issue, the Lombardy Region continues its commitment ”.
OUR VALID LAW - "Our law is valid - concludes the commissioner - and the Government did not miss the opportunity to demonstrate, on the one hand, the bitterness towards the good Lombard government and, on the other, the full disinterest in issues that are now vital for the agricultural world ".
(January 22, 2016)
Lombardy region
Dear councilor, unfortunately it will always be like this as long as there are anti-hunt parliamentarians elected with the votes of their condominium alone, who, in order to be opposed to everything, also do so with sensible laws and with Bramby their ally who gets photographed with a Nutria in her arms as if it were a cat or a pet dog, asserting that it should not be eradicated.
Do not be disheartened and best wishes for a good job
Ferdinand Ratti
interprovincial president Italcaccia Como-Lecco