This week, one of our readers wonders about the significant increase in subsidies granted to hunters.
According to the article in L'Obs, which the reader sent to us, the subsidies granted to the National Federation of Hunters (FNC) would have gone from 27,000 to 6.3 million euros in less than five years.
But according to the federation, questioned by "20 Minutes", this increase is justified by changes voted during the hunting law of 2019.
Have subsidies for hunters gone from 27,000 to 6.3 million euros in less than five years?
This is a question asked by Guy, one of our readers, via our WhatsApp bot.
His message refers to the link of an article in L'Obs, published on August 20.
"The public funds paid to the National Federation of Hunters jumped during Emmanuel Macron's five-year term", explains the chapô from the outset.
During the article, our colleagues from L'Obs explain to us that the information was first revealed by the site lanceurdalerte.org, according to figures published in the Official Journal on August 8th.
According to Le Parisien, the increase is explained - among other things - by the reduction in the cost of the hunting license, which went from 400 to 200 euros in 2018. But is this the only cause of this inflation?
To better understand, 20 Minutes knocked on the door of the National Federation of Hunters (FNC).
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As noted by the site Lanceurdalerte.org, quoted by the Obs, the Official Journal published on August 8 the filing of the accounts of the National Federation of Hunters (FNC).
On the line "Public competition and operating subsidies", we read the figure 11.4 million for the year 2021, against 6.3 million for the year 2020.
Within the FNC, this figure is completely justified.
"The increase is largely linked to the recognition of the expertise of hunters and federations by the hunting law of July 2019", specifies our interlocutor.
This new regulation has notably given them new missions.
Formerly exercised by the prefects, these relate to the management and coordination of approved municipal hunting associations (ACCA) and the allocation of individual hunting plans.
"The financial compensation for these missions is 9 million euros per year", explains the Federation.
With Le Parisien, relatives of Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne confirm that "this large part of the money" was formerly intended for the departmental federations of hunters - whose prerogatives have changed with the law.
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The question of the eco-contribution
For the rest of the explanation of this balance sheet, you will not need a Bac + 8 in economics, but almost.
On the famous document, the line previously mentioned "Public competition and operating subsidies" includes several subsidies: those of public bodies, private bodies as well as these famous financial compensations following the law of July 24, 2019. is the sum of these three resources which is taken into account in the total for 2020-2021 ”, underlines our interlocutor with the FNC.
LAW n° 2019-773 of July 24, 2019 creating the French Office for #biodiversity and #hunting, modifying the missions of hunters' federations and strengthening the environmental police (1) #JORF @Min_Agriculture
https ://t.co/Vy2vgWKbvq
— DILA (@DILA_officiel) July 26, 2019
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But that's not all.
In this famous law of 2019, a new device called "eco-contribution" allows hunters to earn a little more.
“1.8 million euros in 2020-2021 out of a national envelope of just under 15 million”, counts the FNC.
According to the Blast media, the eco-contribution makes it possible, for example, to promote hunting practices in schools, to finance facilities for hunters and to minimize the impact of hunting on biodiversity.
But in the columns of Le Parisien, Yves Verilhac, the director general of the League for the Protection of Birds (LPO) explains that this novelty is above all a considerable gift for hunters, and is not necessarily justified.
Is it the curve of the increase in the 20 species of birds in poor conservation status that @EmmanuelMacron had committed to removing from huntable species?
But no, it's that of public subsidies to hunters, which he multiplied by 23,000% between 2017 & 2021. #hunting pic.twitter.com/Ecq6gGjMEZ
– LPO France (@LPOFrance) August 22, 2022
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In addition to the eco-contribution, there are subsidies from public bodies (480,594 euros) and private subsidies (183,550 euros).
“You thus arrive at 11.46 million euros for the 2020/2021 financial year”, concludes the FNC.
6.3 or 11.4 million?
But there, a detail calls out.
Why does the National Federation of Hunters mention the figure of 11.4 million euros when most of our colleagues gave a much lower figure, that of 6.3 million.
“It is exactly the same reasoning, answers the FNC.
Except that our accounting years are from June to June”.
At the time of the hunting law of July 2019, the previous assessment is still in progress.
Over the year 2019-2020, the new missions of the FNC mentioned above bring it "only" 4.5 million, against 9 million the following year.
The article in L'Obs actually refers to the previous balance sheet and the subsidies have not stopped increasing since.
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