Caccia: Abruzzo, Febbo, “Region incompetent and unaware of the problems above hunting, fishing and agriculture "; the letter to the Ministry reveals serious gaps, prohibited the hunted without data and technical justification.
The president of the Supervisory Commission, Mauro Febbo disputes the contents of the letter that the councilor for agricultural policies Dino Pepe sent to the national institutions. Letter which, according to Febbo, contains colossal blunders and highlights them in a series of points. “First of all - explains Febbo - there are no laws with which the Region has contained the damages; the regulations voted in the last legislature were opposed by its political side and, in implementing them, the forms of control towards the provinces were omitted given that some had completely ignored the obligation to draft five-year plans.
The ineffectiveness is in no way due to Law 157 and Law 394, which do not preclude any of the actions established for the purpose of carrying out the selection and control hunt, the success of which derives from the action of the Provinces and from the controls of the higher bodies. like the Regions.
Sustainable equilibrium is not achieved with Region - Ministry agreements but by putting into practice the tools provided by legislative sources, more than correct and complete, used by all Regions; the Regions already have as a dowry the management autonomy on hunting, if not with the limitation, established by Article 117 of the Constitution and confirmed by the judgments of the Constitutional Court 2014 and 2010 for Piedmont and Liguria, of the minimum levels of protection, concept this which crosses with the general protection of the environment and which has been expressed where some regions have tried to change art. 32 of 394 ".
“Expanding hunting periods by the Regions - underlines Febbo - relates to the variations of the periods of the 157 and that is to the revision of the minimum protection requirements, which cannot be varied through the OFR (Regional Wildlife Observatory): it would be unconstitutional; the rules already distinguish the hunting activity from that of control and are very clear; control is already possible in closed areas forbidden to hunting but the managing body decides.
The letter requests the possibility of using the OFR: finally it is recognized, with this request, that to date this recognition does not exist given the 3 sentences of the Constitutional Court already highlighted by ISPRA (until today the center left said the opposite). It requires the start of the hunting activity in the contiguous areas by modulating the hunting pressure: I inform Pepe that the contiguous areas do not exist today in Abruzzo.
The ZPE is confused with the contiguous areas, established by art. 32 of 394, which are quite another thing. These areas must be identified by the Region after consulting the Parks. It would be enough not to do them until Law 394 is modified, inserting the "hunting residence".
The assignment to the Regions of the contiguous areas is requested: reiterating that there is no reminder to the councilor that the Council of State was very clear, as competing matters in the intersection with the minimum safeguards entrusted to the State, due to the mission of the contiguous areas it would be necessary a revision of Article 117 of the Constitution, for which the Minister can do very little. No regulation overcomes this problem. Even if specific regulations were made, if challenged as happened in the dispute ignited by the ATC Sulmona with the Council of State they would be eternally unsuccessful ".
“Finally - concludes the President of the Supervisory Commission - greater coordination is requested at the institutional level. But this, I would like to say to Pepe, is a request that smacks of mockery for the hunting world and the agricultural world as the Giunta Chiodi had limited the prescriptions to hunting and hunted exclusively in the territories where the bear is present in the periods of hunting activity, making use of the studies of the La Sapienza University and the Ministry, precisely through the restricted technical table (TTR) of point B1 on hunting the Patom agreement.
The Region, with its technician appointed to the Patom table, is annihilating the hunting bans in an indiscriminate manner by decreeing the salvation of wild boars and the end of agriculture by ignoring all the works of the restricted technical table B1, prohibiting the hunt without new data with a map that the commissioner himself published on the Region's website. Did he realize it? ”.
(September 4, 2015)
Mauro Febbo