Hunting in derogation: Veneto, the councilor for hunting, Daniele Stival, writes to the Government and to the presidents of the Chambers on the ISPRA issue; "The institute shirks its duties".
"On the basis of European standards, the Regions, in order to authorize hunting in derogation, must obtain from the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, ISPRA, a mandatory and binding opinion where the concept of" small quantity "sampling is concretely defined . But since 2006 ISPRA seems to evade this advisory function by first invoking the insufficiency of the available data and then, starting this year, the impossibility of calculating the so-called “small quantity”. This is the situation that prompted the Veneto Regional Councilor for Hunting to write a formal letter to the Prime Minister, the Ministers of the Environment and Agricultural and Forestry Policies and the Presidents of the two branches of Parliament, underlining "the unsustainability of the situation, which arises from the fact that it was intended to give the Ispra opinion the value of a mandatory and binding opinion by law, without at the same time providing for the possibility, if Ispra is not in possession of the necessary cognitive elements, to have recourse to similar opinions authoritative such as those provided by Universities ".
"In other words - continues the letter - it is not possible to honestly accept, given the position of exclusivity and technical-scientific unquestionability that Ispra wanted to recognize in the matter of hunting in derogation, the persistence of operational difficulties of the Institute which result in the inapplicability of the relevant national and community legislation ". With these premises, the Veneto Councilor for Hunting asks that Ispra be assured "ample support also through the repositioning of the supervision of the Institute by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, as it was in the past"; and that "we can get out of the current stalemate by activating a specific technical table between the competent Regions and Ministries at the Presidency of the Council, which will allow us to identify solutions for the long-standing problem".
“The matter of hunting - also says the Venetian Councilor - is so delicate and so conditioned by ideological contrasts that it requires cognitive tools in step with the times, which are obviously lacking. It is not a marginal question - concludes the exponent of Palazzo Balbi - because it concerns the maintenance, not only in the Veneto, of traditional forms of hunting that must be safeguarded, while respecting the principles of sustainability, in defense of a hunting world whose rights and whose expectations must be recognized and be able to contribute, in Italy as in Europe, to planning a compatible use of environmental resources. Not to mention, finally, the important economic inducement, which can be estimated in billions of euros, that the sector triggers ”.
28 May 2014
Daniele Stival - Veneto Region