"Viva satisfaction" was expressed by Regional committee for hunting management and by associations Arcicaccia, Enalcaccia and Federcaccia for the recent ruling of the Administrative Court of Valle d'Aosta against two orders of the Mayor of the municipality of Valgrisenche. The two measures, declared illegitimate and annulled "because they were deemed lacking the requirements of the law", instituted "An area prohibited from hunting in the area corresponding to the Beauregard dam basin".
According to the Committee and associations of hunters, the initiative of the mayor Riccardo Moret "risked constituting a dangerous and illegitimate precedent from which other mayors of the region could have drawn inspiration to limit the hunting activity, mostly in an era in which it is already subject to continuous limitations". The latter, moreover, "unmotivated from a scientific and biological point of view", as happened with the "motion approved in the Regional Council on the suspension of hunting for ptarmigan and variable hare".
The ordinances - reads the note issued by representatives of the shotguns - they were motivated by the Mayor recalling "the alleged need to protect public safety on the basis of 'generic reasons of danger connected to the type of activity exercised'", as well as "'numerous reports certifying the presence of hunters in the area of Beauregard Dam'". However, the statement continues, the administrative judges "observed that the hunting activity is already the subject of a 'meticulous discipline by the state legislator' and therefore is removed from municipal power except in the presence of specific and relevant factual elements to be rigorously assessed ". Elements that “in the present case were completely non-existent or in any case not supported by adequate preliminary activity"(Aostasera.it).