The vote of the Regional Council
5 amendments regarding the approved hunting from fixed position during the Regional Council last Tuesday. We had already analyzed some amendments proposed by regional councilors Floriano Massardi and Carlo Bravo and obviously signed by many other councilors; some were withdrawn but others landed in the Chamber receiving the favorable vote of the Assembly. These are amendments that concern exclusively the form of hunting from a fixed stand. The interest of the councillors, both hut owners, may seem monothematic but it should not be forgotten that hunting from fixed positions involves around 7.000 practitioners in our province alone, so much so that it is identified as our traditional hunting. Furthermore, in recent years this form of hunting has been heavily penalized and some abstruse interpretations, obviously always in a restrictive sense, by some provincial offices, have meant that the law had to be addressed to clarify some aspects. Of course today the amended articles, due to the amendments proposed in recent years, have increased in length but precisely to avoid interpretations it is unfortunately necessary to specify every comma.
The most important amendment
The amendment to article 25 paragraph 5 "sexies" is certainly the most important because it clarifies very well, without giving rise to interpretations, which sheds are which, being within the Natura 2000 network areas or within a radius of 100 metres, from them, they must carry out the screening procedure and the incidence assessment procedure: only the new ones! All the others, i.e. the existing ones, do not have to do it and this is an important result because it frees hunters from onerous practices from an economic point of view and from the danger of having their application rejected. By then modifying article 25 again in paragraph 5, it is clarified that failure to renew or take over the authorization of a shed does not lead to its revocation if the procedure is completed by 31 December of the same year. This clarification was necessary because people who forgot for a thousand reasons to renew before the deadline had to give up a cabin where they had perhaps been hunting for thirty years. So a common sense change.
Some of the changes
Again, article 25 was then amended to paragraph 9 which proposes the possibility of recovering a wounded leader with the use of the weapon by leaving the shed up to a maximum of 200 meters from the fixed position, clarifying that even those who have a lookout for aquatics, the "sguass", throughout the flooded area. Furthermore, this possibility also applies to those days in which roving hunting is prohibited. Finally, paragraph 5 of article 27 is reformulated which provides for the possibility of building new huts in the most protected sector, zone A, of the Alpine districts, but verifying their compatibility with the current Venatori wildlife plans and providing for an impact study if positioned within the Natura 2000 network areas. A lot of work was then done on article 26, which introduces the new band for decoy birds provided by the Lombardy Region to try to bring order to a situation that has deteriorated over the years. In essence this article, which we will analyze in a dedicated Cacciapensieri because it is very substantial, incorporates the indications provided by the Ministry of the Environment. In fact, if on the one hand the Meloni Government did not challenge the law, it did however impose some changes, which were otherwise acceptable.
The problem to be solved
What in our opinion will be very important to calibrate will be the way in which these bands will be distributed, which will have to be established by the Council with a specific resolution, not so much for new recalls but for existing ones since in our opinion this is precisely the true rock. Doing it in one way rather than another will establish the usefulness or otherwise of the new article of law. We know that the offices are hard at work but we believe it is appropriate for the regional councilors to continuously verify the work carried out. As we said at the beginning, all the changes to regional law 26/93 concern hunting from fixed stands and we have clarified the reasons. We continue to insist, however, that the problem of the problems to be solved is Ispra's attitude when every year in March it expresses its opinion on the draft calendar sent by the Lombardy Region, an opinion also sent to all the other Italian regions. Ispra's obsessive request to open hunting at all costs on October XNUMXst, providing reasons that in our opinion are ideological and not technical, undermines the interest of all hunters, not just hut owners. For this reason the amendments are welcome, they are important, but if they then make us open the hunt on October XNUMXst you understand that they lose a lot of their value (source: Federcaccia Brescia – Cacciapensieri).