HUNTING IN VENETO: APPROVED THE RESOLUTION ON HUNTING IN DEROGATION
After having acquired the expected opinion of the IV Commission, advise the Regional Council of Veneto, on the proposal of the Regional Councilor for hunting Elena Donazzan, definitively approved the resolution on hunts in derogation for the 2009/2010 hunting season.
The Regional Councilor Elena Donazzan thus remedies the stalemate that has arisen in the Regional Council due to the inopportune forcing of the Northern League Group which, badly advised by the Federcaccia management, had tried to propose the hunt in derogation of as many as 11 species , for many of which the required mandatory opinion of the National Institute for Wildlife (now ISPRA) was missing.
Precisely on this lack of opinion of the INFS, the Northern League initiative ran aground and with it all the provision that would have allowed, also for the 2009 season, the application by law of the derogation regime in Veneto, as has happened continuously in our region from 2002 to 2008.
It is therefore useless to continue to complain about the well-known causes that led to the stalemate in the Regional Council.
The most important thing now is to remedy the mistakes made in such a way that the consequences of these mistakes do not fall on the heads of all the hunting citizens of the Veneto.
If for this hunting year it will be necessary to make a virtue of necessity and apply the regime in derogation in the Veneto with a resolution of the council or, in the event that the first resolution is suspended by the TAR, with a series of resolutions until the agreement with the TAR itself, it is necessary that for the future years the majority that governs the region demonstrates that it wants to equip the Veneto with its own regional institute for wildlife, to which to entrust the task of providing opinions on the conservation status of some species, so far not provided by the INFS.
If the Veneto regional council had approved the proposed law no. 6 lying in the Region since 2005, the problem of exceptions in Veneto would not even exist this year and it would have been possible to hunt in Veneto not only finch, brambling, starlings and pipits but also many other species that the European Union considers in excellent condition conservation but which cannot be expelled in Italy without the mandatory opinion of the INFS or, as required by state law 221/2202, of the equivalent regional institutions.
Since we do not dare to think that the lack of approval of the Veneto Institute for Wild Fauna from 2005 to today is caused by the fact that this legislative initiative was presented to the Council by the Advising Group of the National Alliance (now PDL), first signatory Elena Donazzan , and since the fears of the Lega Nord Group on an alleged "berlatization" of the Venetian Institute seem unfounded, we invite the entire majority that governs the Region to approve the proposed law n. 6 on the Istituto Veneto per la Fauna Selvatica in order to avoid that, in anticipation of the next hunting season, the hunters of the Veneto have to witness again the squalid spectacle due to which they had to suffer the consequences of a political blunder worthy of a better cause.
In the coming weeks we will see the willingness of all political forces to try their hand at this commitment and to equip the Veneto with its own scientific institute that will provide our region with all those opinions that the economic and social categories need to properly manage the fauna and environmental heritage. of Veneto, in compliance with Community Directives and in the interest of the entire community.
To read the text of the resolution: www.sergioberlato.it
We. Sergio Berlato
Italian Member of the European Parliament