The hunting-firearm activity has become an environmental permit
The Omgevingswet defines the hunting-firearm and falconry activities and subjects them to nature-protection or safety rules.
Dutch vocabulary changed with the act. The Omgevingswet defines the hunting-firearm activity (jachtgeweeractiviteit) as the use of a gun to kill animals living in the wild, and the falconry activity (valkeniersactiviteit) as the use of a bird to catch or kill an animal. It also defines the hunting-right holder (jachthouder) as the person entitled under article 8.3 to exercise the hunt in a hunting field, and the hunting field (jachtveld) as land designated for or suited to hunting. Both activities now fall under the environmental permit regime. Article 5.29a sets the compass for assessment in a single sentence: for a hunting-firearm activity or a falconry activity, the rules referred to in article 5.18 are laid down with a view to nature conservation or safety. The act further arranges which authority is competent for an application concerning a single hunting-firearm activity, special provisions for those activities, and a specific administrative appeal against the environmental permit granted for a hunting-firearm activity.