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Permits

Hunting card, written permission, and a firearms licence

Three separate documents: the Federation’s card, the hunting-right holder’s written permission, and the firearms licence.

Article 67 stacks three conditions. A hunter may hunt game if they carry a valid hunting card and written permission issued in advance by the holder of the hunting right. They may shoot game if, in addition, they carry a valid firearms licence for holding and carrying weapons for hunting purposes. Moving through a hunting ground with a weapon without carrying that written permission is forbidden. The hunting card is issued by the Croatian Hunting Association (HLS). It may only go to someone who has passed the hunting examination and reached the age of seventeen years and six months. For card holders under eighteen, the hunting-right holder's written permission may only be issued with the written consent of a parent or guardian. The minister sets by ordinance the conditions and manner of hunting, the carrying of the hunting firearm, the form of the hunting card and how it is issued, the hunting permission form, and the keeping of the record of hunts carried out.

Weapons and ammunition

Gauges 10, 12, 16 or 20 for wild boar with a slug

Big game is shot with a rifled bullet; wild boar may also be taken with a slug from a smoothbore in gauge 10, 12, 16 or 20.

Article 68 is precise. Game may be shot only with hunting weapons and cartridges matching the power and resistance of the species being hunted. Hunting weapons are hunting rifles, pistols and revolvers. Big game may be shot only with a bullet from a hunting weapon with rifled barrels; wild boar may in addition be shot with a slug from a smoothbore hunting weapon of gauge 10, 12, 16 or 20. The minister governs the use of hunting weapons and ammunition by ordinance. The auxiliaries follow the same logic. Hunting dogs are allowed, but whoever uses one must meet the conditions of article 67, and only suitable dogs may be used for a given species in given areas. Captive-bred birds of prey are allowed for falconry, provided the handler meets the same conditions and additionally holds a falconer's card, issued by the ministry on the basis of a falconry examination before a board of at least three specialists appointed by the minister.

Regulations

Croatia: game is a good of interest to the Republic

The act declares game a good of interest to the Republic of Croatia, under its special protection.

The Croatian hunting act governs the management of the hunting ground and of game. That management covers rearing, protection, hunting and the use of game and its parts. The act assigns those activities an economic, tourism and recreational function, and a function of protecting and conserving biological diversity and the ecological balance of natural habitats, game, and wild fauna and flora. Article 3 sets out the status of game: it is a good of interest to the Republic of Croatia and enjoys its special protection; establishing hunting grounds is declared to be in the Republic's interest. Article 4 states the aim: to secure sustainable management of game populations and their habitats, in a manner and to an extent that durably improves the vitality of populations, the productive capacity of habitats and biological diversity. The act also transposes the relevant European Union instruments, notably Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora.

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