On the subject of hunting in derogation, the IdV asks the Government for a single law that puts a definitive solution to the question.
To put an end to the age-old question of hunting in derogation of non-huntable species in Italy, Niccolò Rinaldi and Andrea Zanoni, MEPs of Italia dei Valori, expressed their criticisms and their proposals in a letter sent to the Prime Minister Mario Monti and to Ministers of the Environment, Corrado Clini, of Agricultural Policies, Mario Catania and of Regional Affairs, Piero Gnudi.
The letter from the IDV reads, “The government proposal to amend art. 19 bis of national law 157/92, Rules for the protection of homeothermic wildlife and for hunting, should constitute a response to the formal notice of Italy following the incomplete adaptation to the various sentences issued by the Court of Justice European Union and the persistence of a critical situation regarding hunting in derogation, or hunting for species protected by the EU Birds Directive, but made huntable in particular by regions such as Veneto and Lombardy ”.
Continuing in the letter, Rinaldi and Zanoni affirm, "Well, in the face of some positive aspects of the proposal, the bill is missing essential elements which, if not corrected, will continue to produce very negative consequences on the matter, making the proposed amendment weak and largely ineffective with respect to a problem that requires an adequate solution ".
Continuing explain Rinaldi and Zanoni, “Going into the details, some crucial clarifications are missing: for example, the lawful quantity of the abatements in derogation is not determined; moreover, the opinion of Ispra is equated with the opinion of the regional institutes and is not considered binding but purely consultative. And again, there is no identification of a single state entity with the power of control and intervention in the event of regional measures not in accordance with the law and the regions are allowed to create regional institutes that are useful only for giving more easily "tameable" opinions on the subject of hunting in derogation ".
"And finally - add the two MEPs - the strict controls foreseen during the derogation activities are not specified and the culled animals will be recorded in the hunting card only at the time of their recovery and not immediately after the killing".
Rinaldi and Zanoni conclude their letter with the hope that their observations "will also be accepted to put an end to the numerous expedients of local administrations that have provoked and still cause an offense to the law and to the civic sense of that line identified by Community directives "in order to avoid other damage to the fauna and to comply with Community legislation.