Hunting in Veneto: the TAR rejects the request for suspension of the environmentalists, on October 30 the session for the evaluation of merit.
The legal dispute on the subject of hunting, the hunting calendar and the birds directive continues. The Veneto TAR has published the ordinance with which it rejects the request for suspension presented by some environmental associations on the management of bird catching plants. And the commissioner Daniele Stival sings victory: “We have respected EU laws and directives. The TAR took note of this by not accepting the request for suspension of the resolution authorizing the management of bird catching plants presented by Lac, the League for the Abolition of Hunting. Law prevailed over ideology ”.
This is the comment of the commissioner for hunting on the order of the Regional Administrative Court on the matter. Upon initial examination of the matter, the TAR did not accept the request for suspension as it did not find the conditions for violation of laws and regulations nor the need to adopt precautionary measures as no irreparable damage can be found, postponing the discussion to the merit of the appeal to the Council Chamber scheduled for October 30, the same day on which the new regional hunting calendar will also be discussed.
“I also consider this pronouncement - said Stival - confirmation of the good work carried out by the regional council in the field of hunting, to ensure compliant rules and compliance with community regulations. I am calm about the judgment on the merits that will be expressed at the end of October, in the face of a punctual administrative action always inspired by fairness, in the face of oppositions that consider the hunting practice prejudicial as illegal, which is not illegal ".
The story has been going on for some weeks. With the council that adopted the 2012-2013 hunting calendar for the first time, the TAR that rejects it, the council that re-adopts it.
Now the attention is focused on next October 30th, when the regional administrative court will discuss the merits of the appeals of the environmental associations which, in fact, want to block hunting in the Veneto. "We await the judgment on the merits before the TAR - continues Stival - but the adjustments made tell us that the path taken is the right one, in the wake of a correct, analytical and non-prejudicial reading that the regional council has always made of the rules and the opinions of the institutions called to operate in this matter ”.
24 October 2012
Source: Il Mattino di Padova