Hunt - Live Calls: The EU had already started a procedure with the risk of sanctions. M5s on the attack: "Either the commissioner Fava protects the interests of someone or does not know the subject". He doesn't reply.
The Lombardy Region insists: a resolution has been approved that authorizes the use of live calls for hunting, birds specially captured with nets and locked up in cages to attract similar ones and bring them closer. Yet the European Union has opened an infringement procedure against Italy for resolutions similar to this, passed by the regional councils of Lombardy and Veneto in 2013. "There are two cases - attacks the regional councilor of the M5s Giampietro Maccabiani - O the commissioner Gianni Fava protects the interests of someone or does not know the subject on which he deliberates. This is why we ask for his resignation from the Lombardy regional council ”. To prevent the EU procedure from turning into heavy fines and judicial disputes at EU level, the government had to intervene which on December 2, after having warned (unheard) the Lombardy Region to withdraw it, was forced to cancel it by force. "Already in June of this year - continues Maccabiani -, when the resolution was approved, we asked Fava to withdraw it because it was practically identical to the one that had created problems with the EU". And since when the European Union sanctions it is the citizens who pay, the intention was to prevent the situation from worsening and adding other fines. "On June 30 - continues the pentastellato councilor - we filed a question on this issue and we were told that the resolution had been improved by adopting the opinions of Ispra and that a gradual disposal of the roccoli, places for capturing birds was planned. wild. But all the critical points remained for which the EU opened the infringement procedure. The use of nets for trapping is expressly forbidden by the legislation and the calculation of the number of prey must be done on the basis of the mortality rate of the birds and not on the number that can be assigned to each hunter ”.
The commissioner Fava, contacted by ilfattoquotidiano.it, preferred not to make statements but his position expressed it a few weeks ago in a letter published in a local newspaper in Mantua, in response to an attack by the M5S regional councilor Andrea Fiasconaro always on the subject of live warnings: “I do not intend to cancel - wrote Fava - absolutely legitimate acts, as demonstrated by the ordinances of the TAR and the Council of State. If the government believes it has good reasons to cancel the Lombard measures, go ahead, but I am obliged to reiterate the concept that the law is the same for everyone and the rules cannot be applied only when it suits or as a club against any opponents. politicians. I also remind you that the national legislator has entrusted Ispra with the expression of an opinion on the compliance of the resolutions on the subject of hunting, on which I do not go into the merits of whether the use of live decoys is right or wrong. I stop at the objectivity of things. I will limit myself to remembering, however, that Ispra - an emanation from the Ministry of the Environment - gave the Lombardy Region a favorable opinion ”.
Clarifications that have not convinced and do not convince the Five Star Movement and not even the Lav, which supports the request for resignation of the councilor Fava brought forward by the grillini: "If a regional councilor - explains Massimo Vitturi of the Lav - exposes the Lombard and Italian citizens to the real risk of paying hefty fines from the EU, for a resolution on which 'dangerousness' and illegitimacy has been warned several times, then it is right that he resigns. And if he doesn't do it, it must be Maroni, the governor of Lombardy, who sends him home ”. The practice of using live calls and the methods of capturing these birds are "barbaric and cruel", explains Vitturi: "Once the birds have been captured - larks, cesene, thrushes, stone throats, song thrushes, starlings, sparrows, tree sparrows , lapwings and wood pigeons - are locked up in small cages in which they cannot move and placed in cold cellars. Their life cycle is upset with tricks in order to make them sing when the hunters need it, in September-October, while they usually do it in May during the mating season ”. Captured, cheated and mistreated to have their fellow men killed.
11.12.2014
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