In particular, with a few exceptions, the Lombardy Regional Council (Giunta Regionale Lombardia) and the Brescia Province have, to date, not designated as protected areas the passes through the Brescia Alps which are important for bird migration and which, according to a study drawn up in April 1997 by the State Forestry Corps (Corpo Forestale dello Stato), constitute some of the most significant autumn migration routes for European songbirds and birds of prey across the Alps; capturing birds with nets has still been authorized year after year, although actions brought on the basis of Directive 79/409/EEC(1) by Italian nature protection societies against such authorizations regularly succeed before the region's administrative courts; in 1997 alone, the shooting of more than eight million sparrows, starlings, chaffinches and bramblings was permitted, although those birds are protected under EU law.
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