A fundamental sentence
As previously communicated yesterday, with ordinance No. 5685/22, the Council of State section III rejected the appeal of the Animal-environmental associations for the precautionary reform of the Tuscany TAR, which had decided not to grant the suspension of the Tuscan Hunting Calendar 2022/23, in particular for the date of January 30 for the closure of the duck hunt , thrushes and woodcock. “The role played by Federcaccia thanks to its lawyer Avv. Alberto Maria Bruni, and with the scientific technical support made available by our National Studies and Research Office already in the initial phase of drafting the Tuscan Venatori Calendar, was decisive for this important result ” – declared Marco Salvadori President of Federcaccia Toscana. “I also want to remind those who are flexing their muscles today and improvising themselves as actors in a script that hasn't even seen them as extras, that our association was the only hunting association to support the Tuscany Region in defending the Calendar in the classrooms of the Council of State and not on the Facebook pages".
Tuscan hunting world
“A concrete fact that speaks for itself, not debatable and in the light of day. For some time our association and the most shrewd part of the Tuscan hunting world, which today is engaged in building a new and modern process, for the relaunch and defense of our passion, has been demonstrating with facts that it works for the defense of all hunters, with professionalism and self-sacrifice, far from polemics and instrumental attacks that often risk favoring our adversaries”. The result obtained with this ordinance assumes great importance under various aspects but above all for two reasons: the first is that the ordinance of the Council of State was also made against the Ministry of Ecological Transition which added, not without surprise , environmental/animal rights associations.
Hunting calendars
The second is that the procedural exceptions raised and discussed by our association and amply illustrated by the lawyer seem to have been shared by the Council of State. Bruni. In particular, the following was noted: Environmental/animal rights associations are not entitled to challenge those Hunting Calendars which introduce more restrictive measures for hunting and therefore prove to be more favorable for the protection of the environment. Environmental/animal rights associations cannot bring an appeal against the Regional Calendars, limiting themselves to referring to the ISPRA opinion and the Key Concepts, having to take charge of specifically censoring, one by one, the reasons assumed by the Regions to deviate from them. Strengthened by this success and the arguments resulting from a punctual and competent contribution of our association fielded before the judges of the Council of State, we will continue with even greater determination in the defense of all hunters. We will do so without falling into the trap of hatred and controversy that some continue to harbor and fuel with the hope of concealing their evident marginality in the gigantic challenges that await us (source: FIDC).