Hunting Federation announced the sentence filed today by Regional Administrative Court of Liguria regarding the early closure of the 2015-2016 hunting season by the Council of Ministers. In practice, the judges agreed with the Liguria Region and its appeal presented together with the federation itself, Enalcaccia, ANUUMigratoristi and Arcicaccia to ask the annulment of the resolution of the Renzi government. In a nutshell, the TAR dismantled the arguments of the CdM, especially as regards the substitute power, recognizing the Italian regions the right to set dates other than those of the national Key Concepts if these are supported from a scientific point of view. In the case of Liguria, the song thrush hunt was closed 11 days early on January 20.
As underlined by Federcaccia, the lack of prerequisites for the Government to intervene with the surrogate powers: for the judges, moreover, the justification of EU Pilot case it is not an addition to the ascertainment of non-compliance with community laws, a fundamental element for making these powers take over. In the press release you can read how the TAR Liguria noted another interesting aspect.
In fact, the European Commission's guide to the discipline of hunting as regards the application of the Directive 147 of 2009 (“Conservation of wild birds”) allows regions in the Member States to set different dates for each individual species. In particular, the days of the Key Concepts can be changed in the case of scientific data highlighting the difference in the start of the pre-nuptial migration.
The pronunciation just explained is judged "very important" by Federcaccia, who also used the adjective "historical" without fear of exaggerating: the federation had repeatedly supported the importance of these technical and scientific data, i.e. those that are published by official research and updated studies for the regions. In addition, the interpretative guide was considered more than valid, as claimed by the association and its technical offices, to which a heartfelt thanks was given for having enabled such a result to be achieved. The note ends with an auspice.
Federcaccia in fact hopes that the Ministry of the Environment and Cabinet take note of the total lack of sustainability of their positions on the issue: consequently, they should review their beliefs from top to bottom and let go of this goal once and for all, since the change in hunting times for the song thrush has no reason to exist from every point of view (also valid for woodcock and cesena).