Resolution of the Ministry of Forestry No. 16 On planning the hunting of game animals of regulated species, with the exception of aurochs (Bos bonasus) (reserve gene pool).

This Resolution determines the procedure for planning the hunting of game animals of regulated species, with the exception of aurochs (Bos bonasus) (reserve gene pool), and removal thereof from their habitat in the hunting grounds provided for rent and (or) free use. Draft plans for the hunting (removal) of game animals are developed annually and approved by users of hunting grounds for all types of game animals planned for hunting. Planning for the hunting of game animals is carried out by hunting users on the basis of hunting management documentation in relation to: (a) the entire estimated territory of their habitat, located within the boundaries of the leased hunting grounds forming a single area (range); (b) estimated territory of their habitat, located within the boundaries of the designated by hunting management documentation of a separate hunting zone (except for the rest zone), forming a single area (range). In the case where leased hunting grounds or a separate hunting zone are represented by geographically separated areas that do not have common borders, planning for the hunting of game animals is carried out separately for each site. Hunting period is established as follows: (a) for fallow deer - from August 20 to December 31; (b) for elk and red deer – from August 20 to January 31 of the following year; (c) for roe deer and sika deer – from May 15 to December 31; (d) for wild boar - from April 1 to March 31 of the next year; (e) for mouflon – from October 1 to December 31; (f) for wood grouse and black grouse (in mating places) – from March 20 to May 10; (g) for black grouse (in the summer-autumn hunting season) - from the second Saturday of August to the second Sunday in December; and (h) for beaver, otter - from September 1 to March 31 of the following year.