"With a sentence filed today, the Constitutional Court, accepting the appeal of the Government (solicited with statement of LAC and other environmental associations), declared the constitutional illegitimacy of an article of the regional “stability 2021” law of Liguria , in which a provision was inserted to surreptitiously prolong the hunting of some species of birds ". This was announced by the League Abolition Hunt. “The argument - the association continues - is the so-called“ time frame ”of hunting for each species, established by the state hunting provisions.
If, for example, a species is huntable for three months, when the opening date of the hunting season is brought forward, the closure must also be brought forward, respecting the continuous time span of the maximum period that elapses. The ploy of the Liguria Region consisted in the possibility of breaking up, dilating it, the time span of hunting certain species, like the wood pigeon, in several separate periods, in order to make the species huntable both in September and (by way of derogation) in the first days of February.
The Consult reiterated that “if i terms of hunting periods are modifiable, however, the relative durations are not, which cannot be greater than those established, and which, in any case, cannot be extended toentire hunting season"".