Arrogant and unsustainable are the reasons that lead the minister to apply the substitute power by unleashing his animal rights vocation as a pretext once again to the detriment of the common sense that a minister who defends the rights of honest hunters citizens who have paid to be able to hunt until January 31st would like. 2016 and instead find themselves for the umpteenth time to undergo a forced block before the hunting activity has ended.
A small technical clarification to make it clear how bad faith in interpreting the rules has become the modus operandi of this government.
The Government stated that "The intervention was necessary to avoid that the limit on January 31 set by the Regions concerned made the hunting season of one or more of the species indicated coincide with the pre-nuptial or breeding period, thus causing a violation of European legislation and aggravating Italy's position with respect to the possible negative closure of the Eu-Pilot case 6955/2014, initiated by the European Commission ".
I would like to mention that:
1. The EU PILOT 6955/2014 ENVI of the European Commission is a simple request for information on Italian hunting calendars and on which the Commission will have to express itself later
2. Articles 2.7.3 and 2.7.10 of the European Guide to Hunting Discipline under Directive 79/409 / EC (today 147/2009 / EC), explicitly provide that the Regions of the Member States may deviate from the data Key concepts national, when in possession of scientific data demonstrating a difference in the migration times of huntable species;
- the Italian Administrative Justice on several occasions has judged correct the choices of the Italian regions which, using more complete and updated scientific data, have justified and justified deviation from the data Key concepts national, as required by the guide to the regulation of EU hunting, providing for the closure of the hunt for song thrush, Cesena and in some cases woodcock as of 31 January in compliance with law 157 of 1992
- the same legislative office of the Ministry of the environment recognizes that the document Key concepts, which reports «the dates of dependence and start of pre-nuptial migration in the various countries, presents some“ inconsistencies ”that are difficult to explain in the comparison between neighboring countries. This situation is believed to be adequately taken into consideration in this context and, in any case, resolved to avoid unequal treatment among European citizens ”; in fact, these are the same populations of migratory species (woodcock, song thrush and cesena) that spread uniformly in Spain, Mediterranean France and Italy for wintering and that from here in the second decade of February leave to return to the nesting sites (beginning pre-nuptial migration);
- the evident differing application of dir. 2009/147 / EC between Spain, Greece, France and Italy which determines inequality of treatment between European citizens since the early closure of hunting in Italy on 20 January compared to the permitted closure of hunting on 20 February in Spain and France has no basis scientific if not ideological.
Equally serious is that during the same Council of Ministers with the same pretext of the EU pilot 6955/14 / ENVI the text for the definitive examination of the European law 2015 was approved, where the amendment to the national law 157/92 is proposed by inserting art. . 12-bis which reads as follows: “sedentary wildlife e migratory must be noted on the hunting card immediately after killing ".
No article of the birds directive 147/09 asks member states that hunters are obliged to note the heads of migratory wildlife immediately after killing, but this is for obvious practical reasons that only those who do not practice or are against hunting deliberately ignores.
No reference has ever been made by the European Commission to the Italian government and the EU pilot case 6955/14 / ENVI contains the question nr. 1 paragraph b more simply to know how migratory game animals are recorded in Italy (for example: immediately after killing? Or at the end of the day?).
The friendly findings with this "Council of the Anti-Hunts Claims" are no longer enough. We need a scrapping immediately !!!
National Head of Hunting Northern League Lombard League
Marco Bassolini