Last week Bilbao approved the new regulations that regulate the possession of pets. The regulation draws up the prohibition on walking to dogs with straps more than two meters long and the obligation to also clean the urine of pets on public roads.
The plenary meeting of The city council has given the green light to the security of the municipal regulation, welfare and the responsible term of office of operating animals, After, at least partly, 14 of the 19 allegations he had received in his processing process.
A group of associations, Many of those who have presented the aforementioned accusations have explained that this law will resort to having countless irregularitiesIn addition to creating ‘legal Limbo’s’ that can protect animal abuse and have many other failures they denounce.
Bilbao: business animals
60 Euskadi associations asked a few months ago about the city council of Bilbao That this regulation will not approve. Nineteen veterinarian organizations have submitted accusations to correct the corrector of the Countless mistakes and the violation of the two animal protection laws that currently co -exist: Basque law and state. But because it was clear in the plenary meeting, they fell into a broken bag.
The Haiebin association presented 33 allegations, all based on The powers of the Bilbao city council and mandates that have been laid down in the Basque Dierenbescherming Act And in the Statten Act on Welfare and Rights of Animals, in a 36 -page document.
The incoherence and nonsense of this regulation, it will only be the zoologic cores When his own municipal kennel is collected in his articles, a zoo core. It notes that every activity with pets (public shows, recreational activities, exhibitions of pets, etc.) will have protection and protection of the regulation.
Cats in legal limbo
This assumes that Any act of abuse or violation of its identification, etc. remains in the legal limbo and without sanctionBecause accompanying animals are as a whole competence, they are used for what is used, from the local administration, as determined in law 2/2016, of 7 April, from local institutions of Euskadi, art. 17.1.6.
This is also established in this absurd The population of all community cats in the municipality of Bilbao will be checked And then, in the following article, it notes that only the colonies recognized by the city council are checked, leaving the rest without management. The feline colonies are community cats groups, so this is a nonsense that has no coherence.
It is also conditional that the management of community cats will be carried out by means of the CER and talks about ‘other respectful interventions’. Both the Basque and the Stational Act only regard as a valid and legal method De CER for the control of community cats. No We know what the Bilbao city council is planning to do with cats.
They reject the ethical management of urban birds, As included in the Basque law and state lawclaim that these animals do not fall within their competition, when a series of activities are established on the municipal council’s own website to control the population of different birds that inhabit the urban environment, mainly pigeons and seagulls.
In this nonsense of the Regulation, it is only considered abandonment not to restore the animal from the collection sizewithout taking into account the leaving companion animals found without communicating their lossOr leaving an animal in an establishment, such as a veterinary clinic or another place.
Political nonsense in Bilbao to Dieren
This creates thisto an “open door” for hiding a possible abandoned crime, by camouflage the loss as a desertBecause, when someone leaves his dog and he is, he exposes him to be lost.
This Regulation in Bilbao only collects the less favorable articles of Basque lawIncluding some who are awaiting development regulations, so they are not binding and miss legal support that must be included in this municipal standard.
It is also found in this regulation to leave the community cats (obligations laid down in art. 38 of the Studies Act) and the homemade born before 2022 without identification. The Animal identification and registration is something extremely important for their safety and health control.
The obligations set out in law are not collected stands“ Law 7/2023, of 28 March, on the protection of the rights and good ones of the animalsS, s, claim that they are not compliance in Euskadi for the raid of competencies.
He The Bilbao city council carries out a tortic interpretation of the agreement issued between the Basque government and the state in the bilateral cooperation committee, since this agreement only determines that general government administration (in the future) will promote a normative provision Determine which articles of the State Act will be mandatory and what recommendations will be.
A normative provision is a law of amendment and so far it has not been approved; That is why it is mandatory.
Instead of drawing up a regulation that serves as a legal tool to protect animals and solve problems, they have made a document that exercises the protection animals that the laws give them, And that is released by the city council, in particular in the field of health and consumption, to accept its responsibilities.
It is a regulation that Leave in a very bad place to the city of Bilbao by showing a total lack of empathy towards pets and their careAs well as urban animals.