An official letter, sent as early as December 2025 to the Italian Government, would have been kept hidden, in which the European Commission harshly rejected fundamental parts of bill no. 1552 of distortion of law 157/1992 on the protection of wild fauna, to favor the hunting world with a series of unjustifiable, harmful and illegitimate concessions.
This was made known by the associations ENPA, LAC, LAV, Legambiente, LIPU-BirdLife Italia and WWF Italia, which came into possession of the document “deliberately ignored by President Meloni and the centre-right majority”.
The document highlights serious violations of the Birds and Habitats Directives, which concern the very backbone of the DDL including:
We are faced with extremely serious behavior by the Government – the associations declare – the fact that the European Commission intervened even before the entry into force of the law in a matter such as hunting is unusual and confirms the danger of what is contained in DDL 1552 first signed by Malan. Despite this, the Executive knew and remained firm. They continued to accuse us of spreading fake news while trying to hide and disguise the truth and today they were once again sensationally proven wrong. An irresponsible act that puts electoral interests before the protection of common goods, exposing Italy to new infringement procedures with the serious risk of making citizens – the vast majority against hunting – pay the costs of any sanctions.
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In short, despite the clear concerns raised by the European Union, the Government chose to completely ignore the note, without even mentioning it publicly. The parliamentary process thus continued without changes and just yesterday it actually concluded with the first approval in the joint Environment and Agriculture Committees of the Senate. The failure to communicate the news by the Undersecretary of Agriculture, Patrizio La Pietra, also weighs heavily.
In the meantime, the text has been further stiffened by numerous amendments from the majority, all aimed at granting greater openings to the hunting lobbies and to that part of the agricultural world that aims to exploit hunting as a source of profit. According to the associations, these are measures that do not represent the real interests of thousands of farmers and ignore common sentiment. However, all the improvement proposals put forward by the opposition were rejected.
The associations are now calling for the immediate blocking of the measure and the elimination of the rules contested by the European Commission, to prevent Parliament from approving a law deemed illegitimate and harmful.
