The local communities of the Veneto region are mobilizing to find a solution to the problem of artifacts set up in the area for hunting and agricultural use.
In recent days, a meeting was held in Recoaro terme on the subject of artefacts for hunting and agricultural use whose owners are subject to criminal complaints as a result of an interpretation of the regulations in force according to which all the artefacts set up in the agrosilvopastoral territory for use hunting or agricultural use should be subject to prior planning / building and landscape authorization.
Present at the meeting the mayors of the municipalities of the upper Vicenza, together with the presidents of the Territorial Areas of Hunting and of the Alpine Districts of the province of Vicenza, to the Hon. Sergio Berlato called as an expert on the subject, by the regional commander of the State Forestry Corps dr. Daniele Zovi.
During the meeting, the situation that had arisen following some complaints presented to the Public Prosecutor's Office by some ecological associations was discussed, following which the Prosecutor has instructed the State Forestry Corps to carry out the monitoring, the identification of the location of such artifacts and the identification of their owners. As a result of the work carried out by the State Forestry Corps, numerous criminal complaints have begun to reach the owners of these artifacts, which can lead to the imposition of penalties of a criminal nature that can exceed 100.000 euros each.
Hon. Sergio Berlato called to provide his point of view on the subject, recalled how the owners of these artifacts have been authorized to build them on the basis of the regulations in force which have remained unchanged from 1992 to today, also recalling that over the last twenty years have been carried out frequent and accurate checks by the competent authorities without the same recognizing any hypothesis of infringement of the regulations in force. So, one of two: if these artifacts have always been considered legitimate and regular by the competent authorities, they must be considered as such even today, given that the regulations have not changed.
If, on the other hand, someone considers the current situation to be irregular or illegitimate, it means that the situation found in the last twenty years was also illegitimate and irregular. But the owners of the artifacts should not be held responsible for this, but the authorities in charge who provided the authorization and those who periodically carried out the checks.
Hon. Sergio Berlato highlighted how the problem of artefacts for hunting or agricultural use is not linked to the application of current legislation but to the attempt to provide a distorted interpretation.
The same honorable reminded those present that he had already moved to the Veneto Regional Council to request the issuance of an authoritative interpretative rule that can provide legal certainty to many tens of thousands of people who ask to be able to exercise their activities in compliance of the law.
All those present agreed on the need to intervene at the Veneto Regional Council to request urgent action in order to clarify this matter which runs the risk of escalating into tens of thousands of criminal complaints against unsuspecting citizens in good faith .
To this end it was decided, after the letter sent by the Hon. Sergio Berlato on March 5 last year to all the Veneto Regional Councilors to send a further letter with the same requests signed by all the mayors present.
Vicenza, April 4, 2012
Press office on. Sergio Berlato