Safety, an examination subject and an autonomous competence
The hunter's examination compulsorily covers safety measures; the rules in the field fall to each community.
Safety is explicitly part of the route into hunting. In Castile and León, Article 14.2 of Act 4/2021 requires the aptitude tests to cover at least hunting legislation, distinguishing huntable species, the correct use of weapons and other hunting means, and «las medidas de seguridad y sanitarias a adoptar durante la práctica de la caza» — the safety and health measures to be taken while hunting. The rules that apply in the field — distances to observe, organisation and signalling of driven hunts, conditions for taking a shot — are set by each autonomous community in its own hunting act and annual orders, since that is the level at which the competence is exercised. To these are added the national prohibitions of Article 65.3 of Act 42/2007. A hunter arriving from abroad must therefore read the act of the community concerned before setting out, rather than rely on any national custom.