Law on hunting.

This Law regulates the protection, management, hunting, use and improvement of game populations on hunting grounds; protection, preservation and improvement of game habitats; protection, regulation and maintenance of hunting grounds, and other issues of importance for game and hunting in general. Hunting is an ecological, economic, socially beneficial and educational and scientific activity, which serves the function of protection, breeding, sustainable use and continuous improvement of the quality of game stocks, habitats and other hunting resources. Game is a natural wealth and a good of general interest that enjoys special care and protection of the Republika Srpska. The aim of this Law is to ensure sustainable management of game populations and their habitats in a manner and to an extent that permanently maintains and improves the vitality of the game population, the productive capacity of the habitat and biological diversity, thereby achieving the fulfillment of the economic, ecological and social functions of hunting, and preserving the biological diversity and ecological balance of natural habitats, game and wild fauna and flora.
The text is divided into eleven main thematic Chapters and a total of 90 articles. Titles of these Chapters are as follows: I. General provisions; II. Wildlife and its protection; III. Hunting grounds; IV. Hunting planning and hunting grounds cadaster; V. Hunting and use of game; VI. Measures for protection, wildlife breeding and improvement of hunting; VII. Measures for protection, wildlife breeding and improvement of hunting; VIII. Hunting personnel; IX. Supervision; X. Penalty measures; and XI. Transitional and final provisions.
The general hunting interests defined by this Law shall be ensured by: 1) adopting the Hunting Development Program of the Republika Srpska; 2) adopting planning documents in hunting; 3) continuous monitoring of game populations and their habitats; 4) providing funds for the protection, conservation and improvement of game populations and their habitats, as well as for other purposes of importance for hunting; 5) providing funds for the establishment and maintenance of an information system on game populations and their habitats; 6) providing support to users of hunting grounds; 7) conducting research and development activities in the field of hunting; 8) promoting hunting; 9) supervising the implementation of regulations in the field of hunting; 10) performing other tasks in accordance with this Law and regulations adopted on its basis. Game and other natural hunting resources are the property of the Republic, which is sustainably managed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management under the conditions and in the manner prescribed by this Law. The Government of the Republika Srpska, through the Ministry, shall control the pursuit of the general interest in the field of hunting. Article 5 provides for the classification of what is considered as hunting animals. Article 6 defines general groups of protected wildlife species. Migratory game species that are not in the hunting fund of the Republic have the status of permanently protected species within the meaning of this text. It is also prohibited to destroy, capture, appropriate, exhibit and sell young and eggs, damage and destroy nests, broods and eggs of protected and unprotected wildlife.