La Regional Federcaccia of Abruzzo made known as the first section of the Regional Administrative Court has expressed its opinion on the appeal filed against the hunting calendar relating to the 2018-2019 season. In practice, the precautionary request of the WWF was accepted, strongly opposed to the rest. In the order that was filed this morning, the TAR officially suspended the effectiveness of the hunting calendar in the part in which it sets the opening date of the hare hunting.
The withdrawal will be postponed in this way to next October 1st. As stated in the ruling of the judges, the first public hearing was set for the month of May 2019. In particular, the suspension is the consequence of lack of motivation on the reasons for the dissent of the Abruzzo Region from the opinion expressed by ISPRA. The Institute had indicated the opening of the hare hunt on 1 October to ensure the protection of the last births and the completion of the breeding season.
Furthermore, the sentence speaks of the possibility of postponing hunting during the reproduction stages, as established by paragraph 1 bis of article 18 of National Hunting Law. Among other things, there would have been a lack of interest in examining the request for suspension due to the new hunting calendar established for two species, pheasant and quail. For this withdrawal, you will therefore have to wait about two weeks.