Hunting: Calabria, the Regional Council unanimously approved the combined text of the draft laws relating to the Regional Hunting Calendar and the rules for the protection and management of wildlife and the organization for the purposes of the planned discipline of the hunting exercise.
The combined text of the bills relating to the Regional Hunting Calendar, amendments to regional law n. 8 of 1996, the regional law n.17 of 1996 and the rules for the protection and management of wild fauna and the organization for the purposes of the planned discipline of hunting. The rapporteur of the legislative proposal, councilor Gianluca Gallo, explained that it is "A text that arises from the pressing need for combine conservation and protection of the environment with correct hunting practice. In fact, the new text provides for the establishment of the Regional Wildlife Observatory as a primary body of consultancy and scientific investigation in hunting matters ”.
Continuing on the issue, Gallo added, "Other relevant innovations contained in the article are represented by the provision of a specific regulation for the determination of the criteria for identifying the territories to be used for the establishment of wildlife hunting companies, as well as for the determination of the criteria for the implementation of environmental improvements, including the creation of wetlands, establishing that the preparation of the provincial wildlife-hunting plans takes place well in advance of the issuance of the regional one and, in any case, no later than XNUMX May of the reference year, by increasing the term of formal notice by the Provinces from thirty to sixty days ".
Finally, Gallo underlined "the choice, included in the article, to regulate in detail the procedures and requirements relating to the establishment of superficial wetlands". In the declaration of vote, positive opinions came from the representatives of all the groups. Giovanni Nucera (Pdl) pointed out that the approval of the new rules “fills a legislative vacuum that has been going on for about 18 years, and adapts it to the new needs of the sporting world. But it is also - he added - a breath of fresh air for a system that over the years had become asphyxiated, but which in the past had represented an important income item for the regional economy".
Nucera highlighted "the impetus that will be given to the economic-entrepreneurial activity, linked to the use of the regional hunting property; system in which to develop another important resource: tourism". Substantially similar judgments, while highlighting various aspects, came from Giuseppe Giordano (Idv) who highlighted "the work with an attitude of participation, carried out in the Commission, in favor of a law that gives a lot of space to environmental improvements, to the protection of habitats that have been put at risk ".
Antonio Scalzo (ardia to the amPd), in announcing the favorable vote of his group, highlighted the double value of the provision "that if on the one hand it regulates the sector, on the other it proposes to give absolute protection to the regional ecosystem". Pasquale Maria Tripodi (Mixed) then spoke of “harmonization”, while other confirmations and positive judgments came from Mario Magno (Pdl).
22 May 2013
Calabria Region