The Agriculture Commission of the Chamber has resumed the examination of the legislative proposals for the containment of wildlife and limitation of the damage to agriculture caused by wild animals. Animal rights activists protest, "No to wild hunting".
In recent days, the Agriculture Commission of the Chamber has resumed the evaluation of the legislative proposals concerning the containment of wildlife in order to limit excessive damage to agriculture, combined with the unified text of which the Hon. Monica Faenzi of the PDL. The proposed legislation provides for better management of emergencies linked to the excessive presence of wildlife in certain territories where human activities are at risk.
Protest the environmentalists of Enpa, WWF, Lav, Legambiente, and Lipu who cry out for "wild hunting" and "hunting deregulation"; the environmental associations have in fact addressed the members and the president of the Commission, launching the alarm appeal and denouncing "Under the pretext of enacting the legislation on damage caused by wildlife, a very dangerous text has been drafted, which opens every legislative link" .
"Stop the umpteenth, very serious, attempt at" wild hunting ": do not grant the legislative seat to the provision on" fauna damage ", which instead hides a full hunting deregulation, which we would like to have approved in the closed chamber of the Agriculture Commission of the Chamber, without allow them to pass through the Montecitorio hall ”shout the environmentalists.
According to the environmental associations, in fact, "Under the pretext of enacting the legislation on damage caused by wildlife, a topic that has been on the agenda for years, a very dangerous text has been drawn up, which opens every legislative framework: once again, we try to give to the discretion of the Regions and Provinces every species, even rare and protected, such as bears, wolves, eagles, in an exercise of alleged hunting "control" that knows no time limits, nor protection areas, such as national and regional parks. All this in defiance of the principle codified in our country that wildlife is an unavailable heritage of the state ”.
In conclusion, the environmentalists say, it is “A script seen so many times, so often rejected; an example of overdone politics against nature, against European and national rules, against science, against the will of the Italians, in the name of the increasingly reduced consensus of hunting extremism, now alien to the common feeling ”. The environmental associations therefore ask the government to immediately take a position on the issue.
Below is the unified text showing the "Provisions for the containment of damage caused by wildlife to agricultural and livestock production ":
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday December 4 2012
748.
XVI LEGISLATURE
BULLETIN
OF PARLIAMENTARY JUNCTIONS AND COMMITTEES
Agriculture (XIII)
ATTACHMENT
ATTACHMENT
Provisions for the containment of damage caused by wildlife to agricultural and livestock production (C. 781 Carlucci, C. 2117 Bellotti, C. 2354 Cenni, C. 4414 Nola, C. 4588 Negro and C. 5340 Regional Council of Lombardy).
SCHEME OF UNIFIED TEXT DRAFTED BY THE RESTRICTED COMMITTEE
Measures in favor of agricultural enterprises for damage caused by wildlife.
Art 1.
(Action plans).
1. The regions, in agreement with the provinces, the management bodies of the protected areas established pursuant to the law of 6 December 1991, no. , within six months from the date of entry into force of this law, appropriate intervention plans for the prevention of damage caused by wildlife to zoo-agro-forestry and fish production and to the works prepared on cultivated and pasture land, hereinafter referred to as " intervention plans ".
2. As part of the intervention plans, the following are defined:
? a) areas dedicated to agro-forestry-pastoral activities in which it is necessary to reduce the fauna pressure of some species in order to limit damage;
? b) the areas where there is an imbalance of the fauna population, providing, if necessary, the movement of the species towards the areas where there is a shortage;
? c) the measures for the management of the contiguous areas referred to in article 32 of the law of 6 December 1991, n. and the management choices made by the managing body;
d) the possibility, once an excess wildlife pressure has been found, to resort, within the limits and under the conditions provided for by the legislation in force relating to the species concerned, to the killing method even outside the hunting period and within the areas protected natural;
? e) the persons authorized to kill, the necessary controls and qualifications.
3. The intervention plans establish times and methods for carrying out the measures envisaged therein.
4. The opinion of the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) is obtained on the schemes of the intervention plans, which is expressed within thirty days of transmission, which can be extended for a further thirty days, upon a reasoned request from the same Institute. Once the assigned deadline has expired, the plan can still be adopted.
Art 2.
(Monitoring and data collection).
1. A specific database has been set up at the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) aimed at collecting data relating to the numerical consistency of the various species and the damage they cause in the various territorial areas.
2. The Regions shall collect data relating to damage, the measures adopted for the prevention of the same and the killing carried out under ordinary hunting activities and for numerical control purposes. The collected data are communicated to ISPRA.
3. The management bodies of the protected areas established pursuant to the law of 6 December 1991, n.?394, provide the regions concerned with the data referred to in this article in relation to the territory of competence.
Art 3.
(Participation in wildlife management and damage containment activities).
1. For the management of wildlife and for activities aimed at safeguarding zoo-agro-forestry and fish production from the damage caused by the same fauna, the bodies concerned, within the scope of their respective competences, can stipulate specific collaboration contracts and conventions with farmers pursuant to articles 14 and 15 of legislative decree n.228 of 2001, as well as agreements with recognized hunting associations present in these territories.
2. The reclamation consortia participate, as far as they are concerned, in the implementation of the intervention plans referred to in article 1.
Art 4.
(Traceability of wildlife).
1. Specimens of wild fauna, killed as part of the intervention plans aimed at their numerical control, must, immediately after killing, be equipped with a numbered and irremovable mark, in compliance with the model approved by the Ministry for Agricultural, Food and forestry workers, having consulted ISPRA, and bearing the date of felling and a bar code. The carcasses, identified by the mark, must be delivered to specific control centers, identified by the regions and provinces, to be subjected to biometric surveys as well as to the health checks required by current legislation, within the times and in the manner established by the regions.
Art 5.
(Prohibitions and sanctions).
1. It is forbidden:
? a) introduce in nature throughout the national territory specimens of the species indicated in the regional intervention plans referred to in article 1, with the exception of the areas pertaining only to the wildlife-hunting institutes envisaged by the regional wildlife plans capable of guaranteeing fenced areas in in such a way as to prevent any possible escape;
? b) supplying food to wild fauna in an artificial way, except for census and capture operations expressly authorized by the competent bodies and carried out in accordance with the provisions of the regions and management bodies of the protected areas established pursuant to the law of 6 December 1991 , no.? 394.
2. The regions define the methods for controlling the breeding of the species indicated in the regional intervention plans and may prohibit or define the methods for controlling the presence of animals in the fenced areas referred to in paragraph 1, letter a).
3. In the event of violation of the prohibitions referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2, the administrative sanction referred to in letter f) of paragraph 1 of article 31 of the law of 11 February 1992, no. 157 shall be applied. If the violation of the prohibition referred to in letter a) of paragraph 1 of this article is carried out by importing one or more specimens into the national territory, the administrative sanction referred to in letter l) of the aforementioned paragraph 1 of article 31 of the law is also applied. n.?157 of 1992.
Art 6.
(Interventions for the prevention of damage).
1. The resources allocated to the regions pursuant to article 66, paragraph 14, of the law of 23 December 2000, no. wild.
2. The regions and autonomous provinces, in the context of rural development programming, provide for specific support measures for the implementation of interventions for the management of wild fauna aimed at guaranteeing their coexistence with agro-forestry-pastoral productive activities.
3. The regions and autonomous provinces, within the scope of their competences, promote studies and research aimed at identifying the damage caused by wild dogs or hybrid species.
Art 7.
(Compensation for damage caused by wildlife).
1. For the compensation of damages not otherwise compensable caused by wild fauna to zoo-agro-forestry and fish productions and to the works prepared on cultivated and pasture land, a Fund is set up at the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies, the endowment of which is fed by an additional 5 euro of the government concession tax referred to in article 5 of the tariff annexed to the decree of the President of the Republic October 26, 1972, no. 641, as replaced by the decree of the Minister of Finance of December 28 1995, published in the Official Gazette no. 303 of 30 December 1995, and subsequent amendments. The funds are distributed among the regions, by March 31 of each year, by decree of the Minister of Economy and Finance, to be issued in agreement with the Minister of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies, subject to the opinion of the Permanent Conference for relations between the State, the regions and the autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano.
Art 8.
(Interventions of the National Solidarity Fund).
1. The following amendments are made to article 1 of legislative decree April 18, 2004, n.?102:
? a) in paragraph 1, after the words: "in areas affected by natural disasters or exceptional events," the following are inserted: "or by wild fauna, in particular by the protected one,":
? b) in paragraph 3, the words: "events referred to in paragraph 2" are replaced by the following: "events referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2".
2. The following sentence is added at the end of article 2, paragraph 2, of legislative decree 18 April 2004, no. limit referring to the entity of the damage established by the first period ".
3. The following sentence is added at the end of article 5, paragraph 1, of legislative decree 18 April 2004, no. damage established by the first period ".
Art 9.
(Amendment to article 2 of the law 11 February 1992, n.?157, and other provisions for the control of otters).
1. The following words are added at the end of paragraph 2 of article 2 of the law of 11 February 1992, n.
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