Asset Decree
The bones of that old dinosaur that is Law 157/92 are starting to creak and, even if many hunting associations today are struggling to claim that they gave birth to this conquest, I think that instead it should be Free Hunting that tries harder enthusiasm and satisfaction. A satisfaction due to the fact that, after more than thirty years of solitary battles, during which Libera Caccia was accused of hunting extremism and even made the object of ridicule, we are finally witnessing the first real attempt to revise a rule which, as as we said straight away, she was born lame because she was the daughter of an unfortunate alliance that was more political than hunting. With the approval of “Asset Decree”, in which some amendments are inserted that modify law 157/92 and with which it is intended to clarify the age-old question of hunting calendars but also on the new bans imposed in relation to the use and transport of lead ammunition, the new government - and above all the new minister Francesco Lollobrigida - are trying to recover the ground that hunters have lost in over thirty years of undisputed monopoly of environmental and hunting problems by the "ambentanimalist" galaxy backed by the usual well-known political alignments and sometimes (unfortunately) also by some associations. Minister Lollobrigida's immediate declarations are clear: “Hunting activity is legitimate and regulated by state laws.
Useful suggestions
Citizens who contribute economically to repopulation activities and voluntarily to bio-regulation activities. After nine years, I have reconstituted the Wildlife Hunting Committee, which I already convened in September, as a natural place for discussion between interested parties to develop useful proposals for regulating this activity and its implementation. With the changes to the sector envisaged by the Asset Decree, we guarantee respect for the environment and the various activities that can be carried out there". “The decree approved today – the minister then added – intervenes on the hunting calendars, granting the Regions the possibility of modifying the methods and times for hunting certain species, following the opinion of the national wildlife-hunting technical committee as well as of ISPRA for which a certain timeframe is introduced".
Wildlife and sampling
In fact, the head of the Department of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forestry clarified that "The hunting calendar must be published by the Regions by 15 June of each year and must indicate, for each species of huntable wild fauna, the maximum number daily of animals, the removal of which is permitted". Finally, as MEP Pietro Fiocchi also underlined, the decree clarifies the complex issue of the use of lead in wetlands. “An issue that risked creating disputes throughout Italy in its application, deriving from European legislation, with the risk of creating inhomogeneities”. “No one – concluded the Honorable Fiocchi – “objects to the ban on lead in Wetlands, but considering it a criminal offense was disproportionate to the violation committed, therefore the administrative sanction as in the rest of Europe was more appropriate”. Libera Caccia can only applaud this important regulatory achievement, hoping that it represents only the first step of that modification of law 157/92 which, given the epochal environmental and faunal changes that have occurred in recent years has now become too obsolete (Paolo Sparvoli - ANLC President).