Regional lists, framed by European law
Each Region determines huntable game in its own texts; a species open on one side of the language border may be protected on the other.
There is no single Belgian list of huntable species: each Region determines its game in its own texts and implementing orders. The practical consequence is direct — a species may be open to hunting in Wallonia and not in Flanders, or open under different conditions, since the two Governments set their dates and conditions separately. Both Regions nonetheless sit within the same European frame, the Birds Directive and the Habitats Directive, which each transposes into its own law. The approach is therefore the same in both cases: start from the basic regional text — the Act of 28 February 1882 in Wallonia, the Hunting Decree of 24 July 1991 in Flanders — then consult the implementing order in force for the season, which sets out the species and their periods.