The Lombardy regional law on live recalls was challenged before the Constitutional Court by the new government.
The newly installed Monti Government, during the meeting of the Council of Ministers on 21 November last, decided to submit the Law 16/2011 of the Lombardy Region to the scrutiny of the Constitutional Court concerning the supply of birds to be used as live decoys by hunters who they practice the type of stalking hunting.
In fact, the regional law in question approved a plan for capturing birds of certain species to be used as live calls in the 2011/12 hunting season by those hunters who practice hunting with live calls.
The reasons for the appeal by the Government are found in the fact that it was found that "there was the absence of the mandatory opinion of the Higher Institute for Environmental Research - the prerequisites provided for by the EU directive for the protection of avifauna are lacking. .147 of 2009, which also requires the requirement of the absence of alternative solutions (for example, calls raised and not taken in the wild) ".
Obviously the satisfaction of the environmentalists that is added to that for the news of the closure of the Brescia roccoli by the TAR.