There were over 700 hectares of huntable land that the Lombardy region had taken away from the competence of the Alpine District of the Bergamasque Prealps, entrusting them to WWF, called to manage the access of 20 lucky hunters who are members of the District in order to carry out a plan to kill 400 wild boars. The Region had also generously abolished the contribution provided by the District for the collection of wild boars in addition to those included in the registration fee for the hunting specialization. In fact, the Region, also recalling the current Faunal Plan has Bergamo, made an enormous confusion and mixture between hunting and wildlife control. Now the TAR inprecautionary order, has largely accepted the defensive theses of the Alpine District, putting things back in order, at least until December:
1) first of all recognized that hunting planning acts and control planning acts are deeds of competence of different bodies, and the Region cannot transform the hunting planning acts of competence of the Alpine districts into its faunal control acts;
2) also acknowledged that in no case, not even through Incidence Assessment, the administrative competences can be modified, so that the management of the hunting activity in huntable territory is a matter that cannot be entrusted to the WWF as manager of a Special Conservation Area, especially for areas that do not fall within a park forbidden to hunting and operated under the Parks Act.
The Alpine hunting district also contested the fact that the Bergamo UTR had argued that the opinions of theManaging Body of Valpredina returned within the VINCA procedure on the 2021/2022 calendar were to be considered transposed even where not imposed as provisions in the VINCA decree of the Region. And thanks to this "cleverness" of the UTR of Bergamo, the Regional Administrative Court was led to give the site manager's opinions a weight that goes far beyond the National Guidelines on the Assessment of Impact. Now we must hope that in the final sentence (the appeal will be discussed in December) also this aspect find accommodation, but we are curious to see what the defense of the Region will be. Because thanks to the stubbornness of going against the legitimate competences of an Alpine Hunting Area and yet entrust the hunt to the WWF, which had not even asked for it, the regional offices, not denied by the lawyer, have in fact argued that the opinions of the managing bodies are accepted even when they are rejected! A spectacular forcing!
Before reaching this point, the Region actually had a month to settle things: the Alpine District in fact presented to theUTR of Bergamo, to the DG Agriculture of Milan and to the Councilor Rolfi an application for cancellation and waited a month before notifying the appeal to the Regional Administrative Court. But the day after having notified the appeal, the Region rejected the request, also claiming to understand the opinions of the managing bodies regardless of the actual implementation, confusing "mandatory opinions" and "binding opinions".
Moreover, the aspect of the opinions was completely marginal because they dealt with other issues, the use of the ban on lead and the ban on collective hunting, but in order to blame the hunters, or to please 20, the Region has decided to give a coup de grace to all sectors: all of them will have to submit an initiative to an Incidence Assessment, from the renovation of a building to the expansion of a production plant, from the quarry floor to the construction of a photovoltaic system , up to any initiative, plan or program that may have an impact on a site Natura 2000 network, including the PGTs of the Municipalities, but by decision of the Regional Offices they will all be hostage to the Managing Body of a site located even at Kilometers away, without being able to rely on the impartial supervision of a public body. For what?
Just to be able to say that the regional offices can ignore the prerogatives of the Alpine Districts; that the offices, even without the necessary professionalism, they can modify the management plans for which they force the District to spend thousands and thousands of euro per year (because to make the management plan the District must contact a professional Wildlife technician); all just to manage the hunt with the WWF. (Source FEDERCACCIA BRESCIA - HUNTING THOUGHTS)
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