A question in the Regional Council of Puglia allowed to make order regarding the granting of annual hunting permits for those who are not resident in the region and the conversion into daily permits by theTerritorial hunting area of Foggia. The Councilor for Hunting, Leonardo DiGioia, explained how the law establishes the procedures for granting these permits, while in Foggia criteria not provided for by the law were used.
According to the regulation, in fact, the residual annual permits can become daily: on the contrary, in Foggia the annual permits lasted ten days, a use defined as "creative" by Di Gioia himself. The ATC had motivated everything with the will of consolidate hunting tourism, but in this way the hunting pressure limit would not have been respected.
The regional department asked to review this position and now it will be necessary to standardize the working methods of all ATCs. The operation will have to take into account the new law, in order to combine hunting pressure, the needs of hunters and the economic benefits that are linked to thehospitality of non-regional people.