Thursday 16 May 2024
It is still in gestation after the passage to the Council Commission but the new PDL on hunting is already causing a lot of discussion with Coldiretti Marche announcing a mobilization immediately if the farmers’ requests are not accepted.
Starting precisely from the desire to introduce a maximum limit on the use of ATC resources for any increases on damage caused to crops. “The certainty of compensation for damage must always be guaranteed” thunder from Coldiretti Marche, who also points the finger at the absence of the new national provisions envisaged by the art. 19 ter of Law 157/92 introduced with the 2023 Budget Law “which allow intervention with selection in exceptional cases even in areas prohibited to hunting, including protected and urban areas, always also on hunting stop days. Wild boars are responsible for 75% of damage in agriculture and the Asaps Observatory also for 11 road accidents with serious injuries in our region. The Containment Plan for the species, which expired in 2023, was extended, but not renewed, just as we are helplessly witnessing the failure to approve the containment plan for Swine Weight. “We are very worried because despite the reassurances we are witnessing interventions that, at best, are too timid compared to an emergency that jeopardizes the local economy and the safety of citizens” say Coldiretti Marche. The knots? All postponed. In fact, there is no mention of the single regulation for ATCs, the situation of which remains identical – and therefore without effective controls on their operations. “On this aspect – add the farmers – the law establishes a regional consultative commission which however involves the participation of those controlled, the ATCs, and of hunters but in considerably higher numbers than farmers. ATCs which would be the controlling and controlled entity must be excluded and there must obviously be equal representation”.
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