Environmental associations send a warning to Marche region and to all the bodies in charge of hunting control and surveillance to enforce the hunting ban from 01/01/2020. From 1 January 2020 it will no longer be possible to hunt in the SIC - SAC - SPA areas of the Natura 2000 network of the Marche. This is the most important consequence of the Judgment n. 258/2019 of the Constitutional Court which declared the constitutional illegitimacy of the Regional Law n. 44/2018 and which allowed the Marche hunters to shoot in the areas of the Natura 2000 Network, albeit in violation of the rules dictated by the Italian Constitution. Provincial Hunting Wildlife Plans was limited to 31/12/2019, as was hunting in Natura 2000 areas, for which, in addition to the extended PFVP of validity, it was also required to be subjected to an Incidence Assessment.
A "gift", we remember, that the Regional Council he had done last year to the Marche hunters after the Council of State, to which our environmental associations had appealed, had blocked hunting in those areas. A rule, the one canceled by the Constitutional Court, which it had been written in haste by the regional council, under the pressure of hunting associations, to save a hunting season compromised and mutilated by the sentences of the Council of State.
This time, however, the "Christmas gift" was given by the Constitutional Court to the environmental associations of the Marche region, but above all to the hundreds of thousands of wild animals that are killed and massacred in every hunting season. SIC - SAC - SPA of the Natura 2000 network, despite the fact that the European Union has established for years that these areas are of particular importance and environmental, wildlife and landscape value and therefore deserve particular protection and protection, especially from hunting! The Marche Region has therefore violated the Italian Constitution, approving a law outside its jurisdiction, invading the jurisdiction of the State regarding environmental protection, in order to worsen the rules set up to protect wildlife which, we remind you, is a heritage. unavailable to the State, and therefore belongs to all Italian citizens e it cannot be granted for the exclusive use and consumption of a small minority: the hunters!
For this reason, the Marche environmental associations will send a warning to the Hunting Office of the Marche Region, to the ATC, to the Provinces, to the Forest Police Commands, to the Prosecutors, Prefectures and Police Headquarters, to hunting associations, to enforce the aforementioned ban on hunting in the Natura 2000 areas starting from 01/01/2020. Furthermore, they have already given a mandate to the lawyer Tommaso Rossi of the Ancona Court to proceed with a complaint for tax damage against the regional council, for having allowed hunting in those areas, using a law later declared illegitimate and unconstitutional by the Court. Constitutional (Alliance of Marche's Environmental Associations).