Veneto, hunting for small free birds Italy breached EU rules

From today shotguns against birds that weigh a few ounces The Veneto region systematically applied the system of exemptions.
ANTONIO Cianciulli
On Repubblica.it

Today you shoot the animal protected by the European Union. Again, despite the pressing of Brussels, which opened a heavy dispute with Italy on shotguns, Veneto has voted for a measure which allows, starting from October 6, to hunt birds that weigh a few grams as the transfer, the finch, the brambling, the frosone, the meadow pipit. Despite the strong opposition to the deregulation that has blocked the proposed “hunting with no limits” in Parliament, the Veneto continues to apply in a systematic way, year after year, the system of exemptions that the EU had provided as an exception related only in extraordinary situations.

Immediate the actions to Tar from environmental groups and animal rights movements. For the Lipu (Association for the birds protection) ''exemption granted by the Veneto region to hunt species is looming as a real theft of state property and the international community.'' For Legambiente the resolution of the regional board in derogation on hunting is unlawful, the European Union agreed and ordered Italy to the Court of Justice. Tar (Administrative Regional Court) in recent years has rejected the resolutions of the same tenor. But the Veneto is continuing its line of hunting extremism, fits perfectly into that logicwhich is also the same of current national government, so if something is in the interests of those in power, you do, no matter any rule. "

"The president of the Veneto Region Luca Zaia approved a resolution that allows a specific crime of poaching sanctioned by the national law on hunting because the Ruling Zaia give immunity from criminal poaching hunters inVeneto, while the rest of Italian hunters remain punishable, "said Andrea Zanoni president of the Lac, the League for the abolition of hunting.

The novelist Dacia Maraini spoke on the subject by sending a letter to Zaia where she remembers that "notwithstanding the hunting was declared illegal by a recent ruling of 15 July, the No. C-573/08, the Court of Justice European condemned Italy to heavy penalties, and the European Commission, on May 8, 2009, referred to the Italian Republic to the European Court of Justice (Case C-164/09) for serious breaches of the Directive 'Birds', the 2009/147/EC, by the laws of the Veneto Region,.''

For Councillor Daniel Stival Venetian hunting, however, is "a balanced decision, with which you give the answers expected from the hunting world. The application of these provisions permits, subject to conditions of application and control very rigid, to refer to a limited sampling species that are a good state of preservation. "

For the first time, however, the Veneto is isolated. Federcaccia has expressed its disappointment at the failure to approve the transfer of the exemption in Tuscany and Lombardy is taking time. In all likelihood this year in Italy there will be fewer exemptions. It remains to be seen whether the economic sanctions, now very likely, we will apply the spirit of federalism, which provides the place to anchor the effects of the actions of citizens.