Su Brescia Today a statement from the association appeared ANUUMigrators regarding the live calls, a topic that has always been much discussed. Here is what can be read in the note: “The requests for clarification continue after the opening of the“ confrontation ”at the level of Lombardy region on future hunting activities. Many ask us how we can read in a negative sense the application of article 4 of the current law 157/92 in which, in perfect Italian, the following is written: "the capture activity for ringing and for transfer for the purpose of recall can only be carried out with means, plants or methods of capture that are not prohibited pursuant to Annex IV to Directive 2009/147 / EC by plants whose authorization is held by the provinces and which are managed by qualified personnel and assessed as suitable by Ispra.
The authorization for the management of these plants is granted by the regions on opinion of the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, which also carries out tasks of control and certification of the activity carried out by the plants themselves and determines their period of activity ". At this point one wonders, re-reading the intervention of the then responsible, the opinions of Ispra in Agriculture Commission of the Lombardy Regional Council (on September 26 of last year), which is the national law that closed "any possibility of capturing animals with nets for the purpose of recall", in the face of a clear diction of the Italian law, and which is "The legislative intervention that closed this possibility".
Indeed, at the community level, unless fireflies are taken for lanterns (by now the nodes of the competent department are coming to a head), the situation is clear when the "Interpretative Guide" of the European Commission provides for it, and the same Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) allows it. In the first case, it is sufficient to read point 3.5.45 of the Guide (ed. 2004) where it indicates "the need to avoid mass or non-selective capture and killing, and in particular, the methods set out in Annex IV of the directive Birds "and, in the second, the decision of the CJUE which, since 8 July 1997 - case 262/85, specifies that" the capture and transfer of wild birds even outside the hunting season for the purpose of their detention to be used as live reminders or for amateur purposes in fairs and markets "corresponds to a measured use authorized by article 9, paragraph 1 lett. c) of the Birds Directive.
Point 3.5.22 of the Interpretative Guide 2004 edition is recalled. Therefore we will continue to respond on these points, hoping that the air at the Pirellone will finally change before May. And the regional councilors in Lombardy, Floriano Massardi and Barbara Mazzali, did well to take an interest, since last year, on this point of truth when, in neighboring France, the replenishment of live calls is regularly implemented on species that all enjoy a good state of conservation, scientifically proven. Essentially: in France yes, in Italy no".