A dog can indicate the scent of an underground fruiting body; that find alone does not prove species or origin.
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In Croatia, commercial collection of Tuber spp. requires Ministry permission under the relevant rulebook.
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Personal and commercial collection do not have the same legal treatment.
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The 2021–2023 expert basis describes rules for that period; it does not establish that the same rules apply today.
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Current status must be checked because the Ministry announced a review of the framework in 2026.
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The current basis covers 2024–2026: it sets windows per Tuber species, prohibits any species it does not list and caps commercial collection at 0.5 kg of underground fruiting bodies per collector per day.
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The rulebook sets field-method limits for underground fungi: at most two dogs, digging only at the pointing spot with a trowel with a blade no more than 15 × 8 cm, refilled holes, and no collecting between 22:00 and 06:00.
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For personal needs without a permit, up to 0.1 kg of underground fruiting bodies per person per day is allowed.
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In Piedmont, truffle collection requires an exam-based permit card valid five years nationwide; collection is prohibited for every truffle species from 1–31 May and 1–30 September, species periods follow the Region’s calendar in force from 1 September 2024, and the annual fee is €160 from 2025.
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In Tuscany, regional law 36/2023 — in force since 25 January 2025 — ties the permit card to a training course and final examination through the EDART platform, with an annual fee of €92.96 under its article 9.
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In Tuscany, article 8 of regional law 36/2023 sets the collection calendar for the whole region: magnatum 1 October–15 January; melanosporum 15 November–15 March; brumale — including forma moschatum — and borchii 15 January–15 April; aestivum 1 June–31 August and again 1 October–30 November; uncinatum 1 October–15 January; macrosporum and mesentericum 1 October–31 December.
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The same Tuscan article closes collecting for every truffle species across the whole region during May and September (fermo ecologico).
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In Serbia, white truffle (Tuber magnatum), summer truffle (Tuber aestivum) and autumn black truffle (Tuber macrosporum) are listed among the country’s protected wild species, so their use requires a Ministry permit.
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Serbia’s Nature Protection Act allows collecting protected wild species only without endangering their populations and empowers the ministry to prescribe time bans, quantitative limits and spatial closures; the official texts this project retains publish no fixed species-level truffle calendar for Serbia.
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In Slovenia, a forest visitor may gather up to two kilograms of mushrooms per day for personal needs, with restrictions where species protection or forest functions require them; the official sources read for this record publish no species-level truffle calendar.
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Commercial gathering of wild forest produce — explicitly including mushrooms and truffles — is a classified Slovenian activity whose providers must meet conditions and submit evidence to the forestry inspection before starting.
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Spain’s Decreto 1688/1972 still regulates the search and collection of winter black truffle nationally and sets the season from 1 December to 15 March, which the Ministry may alter or suspend by areas.
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In Aragón, the competent order sets the winter-truffle season at 15 November–15 March on its managed mountains, requires trained dogs and the truffle machete, orders holes backfilled, and prohibits soil-lifting tools and collection between sunset and sunrise.
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Hungary’s truffle decree annex sets species windows — among them Tuber aestivum including var. uncinatum from 15 May to 31 December and Tuber magnatum from 1 October to 31 December — and finds outside a window must be reburied where found.
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Hungarian truffle collectors need a completed official course, the forest manager’s prior written consent carried during collection, a valid collection log validated annually by 30 April, and at most two examined dogs; searching between sunset and sunrise is banned.
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The Hungarian forest act allows underground fungi to be collected only with the forest manager’s consent under executing legislation, and lets the forestry authority set deviating annual periods or restrict or prohibit collection for conservation reasons.
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No truffle-specific instrument was found among the Bosnia-Herzegovina legal texts read across FBiH, Republika Srpska and Brčko; wild-mushroom gathering runs through their non-timber forest-product regimes.
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In the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, mushroom gathering is allowed only with prior approval of the cantonal forest company on approved surfaces and at approved times, secondary forest products over one kilogram require approval, and digging up mycelium is permanently banned.
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A Heraklion forest-directorate decree bans commercial mushroom collection on forest land in the prefecture.
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A 2016 Drama forest-office decree caps personal-use gathering at two kilograms of mushrooms plus half a kilogram of truffles per person per outing.
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French ministerial guidance states mushrooms are products of the soil belonging to the landowner under the Civil Code, making it unlawful to take them without the owner’s agreement.
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In French state forests, mushroom gathering is tolerated for family use up to five litres per person per day unless local rules restrict it, and resale of the harvest is prohibited.
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