Regulation No. 24 of the Minister of the Environment validating the Regulation on Hunting in National Parks and Nature Approval of the Procedure for Regulating Reserves

Hunting in National Parks and Nature Approval of the Procedure for Regulating Reserves Regulation No. 24 of 17 March 1999 of the Minister of the Environment Pursuant to subsection 19(6) of the Hunting Management Act (RT I 1994, 30, 465; 83, 1449; 1996, 49, 953; 1997, 86, 1460), I hereby establish: 1. To approve the “Procedure for Regulation of Hunting in National Parks and Nature Reserves” (attached). 2. To repeal Regulation No. 40 of 14 September 1994 of the Minister of the Environment, “Establishment of the Procedure for Regulation of the Number of Game in National Parks and Nature Reserves” (RTL 1994, 44, p. 1523). Minster Villu REILJAN Acting Secretary General Peeter SOOVÄLI Approved by Regulation No. 24 of 17 March 1999 of the Minister of the Environment Procedure for Regulating Hunting in National Parks and Nature Reserves 1. Game (elk, wild boar, roedeer, red deer, wolf, beaver, fox, racoon dog, American mink, pine marten and cormorant) may be hunted for the purpose of regulation of the numbers of game or for scientific purposes in the following protected areas: 1. Karula National Park 2. Lahemaa National Park 3. Soomaa National Park 4. Vilsandi National Park 5. Alam-Pedja Nature Reserve 6. Endla Nature Reserve 7. Marimetsa Nature Reserve 8. Matsalu Nature Reserve 9. Muraka Nature Reserve 10. Nigula Nature Reserve 11. Ohepalu Nature Reserve 12. Pihla-Kaibaldi Nature Reserve 13. Puhatu Nature Reserve 14. Silma Nature Reserve 15. Viidumäe Nature Reserve 2. Conditions of regulating the numbers of game shall be established by protection rules of protected areas. 3. Protected areas not listed in clause 1 of this Procedure shall be rated among hunting districts. Restrictions on hunting in these protected areas are established by protection rules of the relevant protected areas. 4. Numbers of game in a protected area shall be regulated by the holder of the bordering hunting district, by a hunting organisation located in the protected area, or by a hunter living in the protected area, on the basis of a contract concluded with the manager of the protected area. 5. The contract shall include: 1. scope of the use of game stock and conditions of hunting; 2. restrictions arising from protection regime; 3. obligation of game support in limited management zone; 4. obligation of accounting of game stock; 5. term of validity of contract; 6. liability of parties in the case of breach of the contract; 7. conditions of renewal of the contract. 1. Regulation of numbers of game in protected areas shall not be effected in the form of commercial or visitor hunting. 2. Hunting licences shall be issued by the holder of hunting district or by the hunting organisation with which the contract was concluded. Issue of hunting licences shall be approved by the managers of protected areas. In the case of contracts concluded with single hunters, hunting licences shall be issued by managers of protected areas.