Romanian President Klaus Iohannis promulgated, on Tuesday, the law that provides for measures to manage the bear population. The legislative interventions are aimed at preventing attacks on the population and damage caused by bear attacks, by approving the killing for the years 2024-2025 of a number of 426 brown bears, which represents the prevention scale at the national level, and a number of 55 brown bears , which represents the degree of intervention at the national level.
Thus, the normative act promulgated by the head of state completes the law 407/2006 and modifies the emergency ordinance 81/2021. “The harvesting of bear specimens is carried out after obtaining the environmental permit for harvesting/trapping issued by the competent territorial public authority for environmental protection, according to the Government’s emergency ordinance 195/2005 on environmental protection, approved with amendments and additions by law 265/2006 , with subsequent amendments and additions”, the law also provides. The normative act also envisages an increase in the number of CIC points from 350 to 400. CIC points represent the minimum threshold from which the evaluated hunting trophies are retained in the national heritage.
“In order to maintain the balance between the age and sex categories, as well as to protect dominant specimens, it is prohibited to harvest specimens whose fur exceeds 400 CIC points, as well as females accompanied by cubs under 2 years of age,” the source said.
In the situation where, for any reason, specimens are harvested whose fur has been evaluated at more than 400 C.I.C. points, to which a maximum of 5% of the obtained score can be added, both the fur and the skull belonging to the specimen in question, prepared by manage, they are handed over to the specialized territorial structure of the National Forestry Guard, whose scope of activity includes the place where the harvesting action was carried out, and they remain in the public property of the state.
“The skull and fur of the harvested bear specimens are evaluated according to the methodology provided by the Order of the Minister of Agriculture, Forests and Rural Development no. 418/2005 for the approval of the methodology for evaluating game trophies, in accordance with the methodology of the International Council for Hunting and Game Protection, hereinafter referred to as C.I.C., within 3 working days from the harvest”, the law promulgated by President Iohannis also provides.
On November 6, 2023, the Senate adopted this law as the first forum referred to, and the decision-making vote of the Chamber of Deputies was given on July 15 of this year.
The plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies, gathered in an extraordinary session, approved on July 15 the draft law aimed at measures to manage the bear population, amid emotions caused by the death of a young woman attacked by a bear the other day.
The summoning of deputies in an extraordinary session was requested by Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, following the tragedy in Bucegi last week, when a 19-year-old girl died on the Jepii Mici trail, after being attacked by a bear.
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