The decision to suspend the hunting the ptarmigan and the variable hare of hunting season 2020-2021. This was established by the Tar of the Aosta Valley, rejecting the appeal of the Regional Committee for hunting management against the Region. The judges had already denied the suspension last September, on the eve of the start of the hunting season. It was the regional executive, in July 2020, that suspended the hunting of the two species, in implementation of a motion approved by the Regional Council in November 2019.
It was a "completely legitimate conduct", write the administrative judges in the sentence, and "the circumstance that at the time of its adoption the Giunta was in prorogatio regime, does not deprive the act of its legitimacy ”. Furthermore, "there is no doubt that the general indication of which species are huntable is left to the national legislator and for the Valle d'Aosta to the regional legislator with exclusive power, but this does not mean that temporary limitations on the withdrawal of some huntable species cannot be adopted with an administrative act ".
This is the comment of ACR (Rural Culture Association): “The attacks on hunting activities by animal activists continue. The Tar of the Aosta Valley confirms the closure of the hunting of ptarmigan and hare species for five hunting seasons. This is yet another demonstration of the need for unite the forces of all the bearers of rural culture to defend our activities and our traditions ".