Hunting in Valle d'Aosta: the TAR rejects the request for suspension of the Hunting Calendar in the part concerning fox hunting, advanced by environmentalists.
For the judges there are no extremes of gravity and urgency. The League for the abolition of hunting had asked to stop hunting "in search" by challenging the hunting calendar for a difference with respect to the indications of Ispra.
The fox hunt that began yesterday with the start of the hunting season can continue, at least for next month. This was established by the Regional Administrative Court of Valle d'Aosta, rejecting for lack of "gravity and urgency" the request for precautionary suspension presented by the League for the abolition of hunting and by the Association of victims of hunting, which challenged part of the calendar hunting 2012-2013 approved in June by the regional council. The council chamber is scheduled for October 17.
Compared to the indications of the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (Ispra) which had suggested the date of October XNUMXst for the start of hunting for foxes in roaming form, the hunting calendar anticipates the start of the period on the third Sunday of September, as permitted by the hunting framework law.
An "extremely limited" period of time, that between 16 and 30 September, writes in the decree the president of the Tar of the Aosta Valley Calogero Adamo. Consideration that, together with the fact that the appeal "concerns a single species (the fox) and a single method of hunting the same (hunting)" led the administrative judge to believe that "the conditions for acceptance do not exist" given that there is "in the case in question a situation of extreme gravity and urgency, such as not to allow even the delay until the date of the council chamber".
The Regional Council had justified its choice to bring forward the roaming fox hunt with respect to what is indicated by ISPRA, explaining, in the contested resolution, that "it is considered useful to keep the opening date of the hunt on the third Sunday of September or at the general opening of hunting as that date is part of local customs ". The appeal of the two associations against the Valle d'Aosta Region and the Italian hunting federation was filed last Friday.
Source: LaStampa.it