Last April 5, therefore a little less than a week ago, the Constitutional Court ruled on the provisions relating to hunting in derogation in the Marches. In particular, the judges were asked to evaluate the constitutional legitimacy of Regional Law 7 of 2015 after an appeal presented by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. The regional modification provided for the levy by way of derogation from the transfer in territories where it is necessary to protect some specific crops.
This condition was defined as too general and devoid of time and space limits, while the Marche Region insisted that the rule was in line with any prescription. The Court agreed to the Council of Ministers after almost three years, underlining precisely the exceptional nature that hunting in derogation should have in our country.
Article 1 of the regional law was therefore declared illegitimate from a constitutional point of view, a sentence that will certainly make the hunting world discuss and that will inevitably have repercussions. Among other things, the judges did not give any importance to the question of productive vegetations and to the hunting of the starlings motivated by the danger that the Marche crops have run, run and will run. Now the replies of the regional hunting associations are awaited.