Hunting: Sicily, Ok to the reorganization of the legislation on hunting according to the proposals of the deputies Clemente, Germanà and Ruggirello.
The new bill on hunting activities that will soon come to the approval of the ARS will contain the proposals presented by the deputies Clemente, Germanà and Ruggirello regarding important innovations in the field of hunting and in particular the exercise of hunting from "fixed post", hunting notwithstanding and selection hunting. The honorable Roberto Clemente of Cantiere Popolare, Nino Germanà of the Nuovo Centrodestra and Paolo Ruggirello of Article 4, with a joint action presented some proposals aimed at reorganizing the legislation governing hunting activities. With a joint note, the three Sicilian parliamentarians affirm, "In fact, Sicily's transposition, with disconcerting delay compared to the other Italian regions, of Law 1997/157, which allowed an alignment to the new principles in terms of hunting, of land management and wildlife heritage. Many years have now passed since that distant 1992, the juridical panorama expressed by the Framework Law has been partly modified, partly upset with the approval of the Community Law 1997 ″.
Continuing we read in the note from the deputies, “Despite the numerous changes made over the years by the Sicilian Legislator to LR n. 33/1997, none of the "experts" had taken the opportunity to remedy those macroscopic gaps in the Sicilian legislation that made it incomplete compared to other Italian regional laws. Basically, none of the experts had realized that hunting from "fixed posting", hunting in derogation, hunting by selection were not practicable in Sicily. Well, the time has finally come to put an end to the discrimination suffered so far by Sicilian hunters who are passionate about hunting from fixed stalking, and hunting in derogation, of selection hunting for ungulates which, according to the current national discipline, can take place beyond normal hunting seasons. The time has finally come to unify the legislation in order to make it fairer and more consistent with the characteristics of the territory ”.
“These in principle - write the three deputies - the requests formulated to the Councilor who will soon be part of the bill on hunting that will arrive in the Assembly. But there is more: it will now be necessary to deal with the never resolved question of the wildlife hunting plan and the sites of the Natura 2000 Network, to abolish the discrimination to which hunters of the Minor Islands are subjected, and to regulate, once and for all, the hunting usability of forest estates but also reviewing the boundaries and distribution of protected areas ".
25 February 2014