Law no. 407 of 9 November 2006 on hunting and protection of hunting stock.

This Law regulates main issues and rules related to the hunting practices on the national territory, including provisions that regard the protection of hunting resources (hunting stocks). This Law declares that hunting fauna is of great importance and interest, also recognized as an renewable natural resource and a public good of national and international interest. Hunting is performed for the purpose of ensuring the ecological balance, improving the quality of the fauna populations of hunting interest, scientific research, as well as for educational or recreational-sports purposes. This text further states that no one has the right to hunt on the land owned by another without having related necessary hunting permits, which proves the consent of the owner, the association of owners or the person mandated by them for this purpose. The criteria for setting up a hunting fund are the following: a) the size of the surface of the hunting ground; b) establishing the sedentary fauna of hunting interest; c) the limits of the hunting fund; d) belonging, as a rule, to the same altitudinal floor; e) the ownership structure of the land. It is aimed, as far as possible, to set up hunting funds on lands that belong to the same type of property; f) the existence of diversity in terms of land use. It is aimed that within a hunting fund there are as many categories of land use as possible; g) the establishment, over time, of hunting funds. The area of a hunting fund will be at least 5,000 ha in the plains and in the Danube Delta, 7,000 ha in the hills and 10,000 ha in the mountains. The authorized capture of specimens of species of hunting interest for scientific purposes, followed by their release, does not constitute hunting. The activities of chasing, tranquilizing and relocating or extracting brown bear specimens by euthanasia or shooting, carried out by the specialized technical staff of the Forest Guard or by the specialized technical staff of the game fauna managers, as a result of applying the intervention procedure approved according to the legislation in force, do not constitute hunting, nor do the activities carried out by the staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the performance of their duties for the purpose of: (a) the removal, immobilization or elimination of animals that threaten the life or bodily integrity of persons or the integrity of their property; and (b) the immobilization of animals whose life or bodily integrity is endangered following human intervention carried out with any legal means of protection and immobilization. The criteria for establishing a hunting fund are the following: (a) the size of the hunting ground area; (b) the stability of sedentary hunting fauna of hunting interest within the limits of the hunting reserve; (c) the easily described and identifiable boundaries of the hunting grounds on the ground; (d) the historical establishment and delimitation of hunting grounds; and (e) inclusion of all localities, except municipalities, in the scope of hunting funds.
This text is divided into six main thematic Chapters and a total of 58 articles. Titles of these Chapters are as follows: I. General provisions; II. Administration and management of Romania's hunting fund; III. Protection of fauna of hunting interest; IV. The practice of hunting; V. Responsibilities and sanctions; VI. Transitional and final provisions. The species of hunting interest are fully listed and defined in Annexes no. 1 and 2 (attached to this text).
The main duties of the administrator for the protection of fauna of hunting interest and in the field of hunting are defined in article 6. The management categories with which contracts can be concluded for the management of fauna of hunting interest are listed in article 7. The assignment of the right to manage hunting fauna is carried out by the administrator of hunting funds, through specific methods, as listed in article 8. In order to create the scientific basis for the sustainable management of fauna of hunting interest, a hunting research section is established within the institute that carries out scientific research for forestry (article 16). Article 17 declares that all authorized and recognized managers of hunting grounds that are present on the national territory, are obliged to ensure the management of fauna of hunting interest, respecting the principle of sustainability, based on evaluation studies and specialized management plans, drawn up for each hunting fund, for the period of validity of the management contract. In order to preserve biodiversity, mammals and birds allowed for hunting are hunted only within the approved harvest quota, in compliance with the technical regulations regarding the organization and practice of hunting (article 19). In order to preserve the fauna of hunting interest, the administrator, together with the central public authority responsible for environmental protection and the manager, delimits in each hunting fund one or more areas of silence for hunting fauna where hunting is prohibited (article 20). Breeding with specimens from game species that do not exist in hunting funds in Romania can only be done if all conditions from article 21 become satisfied. For the purpose of the sustainable management of fauna of hunting interest, article 23 sets related prohibitions.