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Permits

Without a PZŁ card, a visitor goes through a bought hunt

Foreigners who are not members of the Polish Hunting Association hunt after buying a hunt from a licensed company.

In Poland hunting may only be carried out with the consent of the lessee or manager of the hunting district. What entitles a person is proof of membership of the Polish Hunting Association (Polski Związek Łowiecki) confirming the relevant qualifications, together with a permit to hold a hunting firearm or another document authorising that. The qualification is obtained by passing an examination before a commission appointed by the Association. For individual hunting one more document is required: a written authorisation issued by the lessee or manager of the district. Article 43 opens the route for hunters from abroad: foreigners who are not members of the Polish Hunting Association may hunt after buying a hunt from companies holding the concession the act provides for, or on the basis of the competent minister's consent. The act also imposes traceability: immediately after taking game and before any transport, the carcasses of moose, red deer, fallow deer, mouflon, roe deer and wild boar must be marked; the duty extends to prepared antlers.

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Three thousand hectares, forest or field

A hunting district covers at least three thousand contiguous hectares; above 40 % forest it counts as a forest district.

Article 23 sets the basic unit: a hunting district (obwód łowiecki) is a contiguous area of land of at least three thousand hectares on which conditions exist for practising łowiectwo. In particular cases justified by rational game management and by terrain conditions, smaller districts may be created with the competent minister's consent. Article 24 introduces a distinction that governs management: districts divide into forest districts and field districts. A forest district is one where wooded land makes up at least 40 % of the total area; a field district one where it makes up less than 40 %. The division is a matter for territorial administration: dividing the country into hunting districts and changing their boundaries is done, within a voivodeship, by the competent voivode by regulation, after seeking the opinion of the regional director of the State Forests and of the Polish Hunting Association. Where a district spans more than one voivodeship, the regulation is issued by the voivode of the predominant part, in agreement with the other.

Regulations

Poland: game belongs to the State Treasury

Free-living game animals are a good of the whole nation and the property of the State Treasury.

The Polish act of 13 October 1995, the Prawo łowieckie, first defines its subject: łowiectwo, as an element of protecting the natural environment, means protecting game animals and managing their resources in keeping with ecological principles and with those of rational agriculture, forestry and fisheries. Article 2 then lays down an ownership rule that sets Poland clearly apart from its western neighbours: free-living game animals, as a good of the whole nation, are the property of the State Treasury. The right to hunt is therefore not an attribute of land ownership. Article 3 lists the aims: protecting, conserving the diversity of and managing game populations; protecting and shaping the natural environment to improve the game's living conditions; and achieving the best possible individual condition, trophy quality and appropriate population size for each species.

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