Hunting: Como, the Lombardy Tar has decided to cancel the regulation for hunting ungulates in the provincial territory by adhering to the requests of animal rights activists.
The TAR of Lombardy, with its sentence n.1284 of 16 May 2013, annulled the Regulations governing the hunting of ungulates in the territory of the Province of Como and the hunting of wild boar in the Alpine Districts, accepting the appeal presented by the animal rights activists of the Lac. The Regulation in question was approved with Resolution 123 of May 17, 2012 of the Provincial Council of Como. The judges of the TAR considered the reasons brought by the animal rights activists to be well founded, in particular in the vice according to which the council had no power to adopt provisions of a regulatory nature as this faculty is to be attributed instead to the provincial council.
In addition, the approved document violated the national hunting law 157/92 as the Province had the right to allow the killing and recovery of previously injured ungulates even if in the days of "hunting silence" and in areas where hunting is not allowed.
Finally, according to the TAR, the provincial administration is required to provide adequate motivation regarding the failure to apply the obligation to use non-toxic ammunition in hunting ungulates, as required by the opinion of ISPRA, Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, to in order to avoid the possible contamination of the meat that would constitute a danger both for the man who consumes the meat and for the carnivores that could feed on the gutted parts of the preys and left in the woods.
22 May 2013