The Birds Directive is the oldest piece of EU legislation on the environment and one of its cornerstones which was unanimously adopted in April 1979 as the Directive 79/409/EEC. Amended in 2009, it became the Directive 2009/147/EC. From Wikipedia
The draft bill proposing sweeping changes to Italy's 1992 hunting law remains under negotiation after legal conflicts and public backlash stall its progress.
