NEW PROPERTY LAW REGIME OF THE HUNTING GROUND

Abstract

The new Hunting Act should create the prerequisites for introducing more orders in hunting by regulating relations between hunters and provider of rights of hunting and more precisely regulating private property relations as a prerequisite for faster development of hunting tourism and the promotion of hunting as a significant economic branch. The paper deals with the question of acquiring ownership rights on
game, wild game and game trophies status as goods restricted in commerce. In the paper, subject of criticism is the legal solution of the exclusion of compensation for damage to forests and forest land as goods of interest to the Republic of Croatia and the proclaimed principle of proportionality between the restriction of ownership rights and enforcement of hunting rights. An overview of the open issues that the legislator should take into account in regulating hunting rights may also serve to possible de lege ferenda solutions in the regulating of the ownership relations in hunting.