Ordinary Law
On 31 October, regulatory changes were introduced to the Lombard regional law in hunting matters through amendments to the so-called Ordinary Law. Thanks to the entire majority who supported them, but in particular to the Regional Councilors who presented them as signatories, above all Floriano Massardi and Carlo Bravo, President and Vice President of the VIII Commission, and to Councilor Beduschi, who grasped the importance and appropriateness of certain changes, finally also giving its favorable opinion. One above all is very important: paragraph 25 septies is introduced in article 5. Now there will be no more uncertainties and disparities as to which fixed locations are to be subjected to VINCA: they will be exclusively those within the Natura 2000 sites and within a radius of 100 meters from them.
Huge simplification
No longer 1000 meters like in Bergamo or even without distance limits and at the discretion of the managers like in Lecco around Pian di Spagna. A very important rule, supported for some time primarily by FIDC and ANUU who had already met the Councilor together with Councilor Zamperini to raise the problem: the new provision will lead to enormous simplification (also for the Park Authorities) and a significant saving of money both for hunters and for organizations, who will not have to waste time and resources to avoid practices that are completely unreasonable and disproportionate to their very object. Other changes were then introduced to articles 25, 27 and 33, which were largely acceptable and appreciable. First of all, it was clarified that the application for the renewal of a stakeout, or for taking over, is timely if presented not by the last date of the reference decade, but by 31 December of the year in which it expires: this change puts an end to vexatious applications practiced at certain local offices.
Hunting from a temporary stand
The possibility of recovering wounded game in fixed aquatic stakeouts throughout the body of water and in the area delimited by the (non-mandatory) tables provided is then clarified. It is clarified that, in the case of hunting from a temporary stakeout on land on which other forms of roving hunting are prohibited, it is still permitted to search for and recover injured fauna within 200 meters of the stakeout even in a hunting attitude. The possibility of installing new fixed hunting posts is also given in the most protected Alpine areas, albeit with the binding opinion of the competent Alpine District. There is the possibility for hunters from fixed stakes who are members of an ATC or a Lombard CAC to register stakes in other ATCs or CACs without necessarily being or becoming members.
Live recalls and more
Lastly, the changes agreed with the competent ministries to article 26 of Regional Law 26/93 have finally been made, so that the application process of the new legislation regarding the marking of live breeding calls can finally begin. The commitment of the proposing Councilors was truly commendable and the result obtained, after close discussions, refinements, adjustments and renunciations of other amendments, produced a certainly notable result. However, it is hoped that the Interprovincial, or rather Regional, table, supported and promoted by the Bergamo Regional Councilor Pietro Macconi, will become a moment of preventive discussion of the proposed changes in hunting matters useful for producing proposals that take into account all the territorial needs and the consequences of certain lexical choices in the preparation of regulatory texts and which pays equal attention to all forms of hunting (The Regional President of Federcaccia Lombardia – Lorenzo Bertacchi).