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Decree-Law No. 82/2021 establishing the Integrated Management System for Rural Fires in continental territory and defining its operating rules.

Country/Territory
Portugal
Document type
Legislation
Date
2021
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Diário da República No. 199, I Series, 13 October 2021.
Subject
Forestry
Keyword
Forestry protection measures Forest fires Forest management/forest conservation Integrated management Institution
Geographical area
Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, North Atlantic, North-East Atlantic, Southern Europe
Entry into force notes
This Decree-Law enters into force on 1 January 2022.
Abstract

This Decree-Law, consisting of 81 articles divided into seven Chapters, establishes the Integrated Management System for Rural Fires (SGIFR) in the entire National continental territory and defines its operating rules. SGIFR is a set of structures, norms and processes of institutional articulation in the integrated management of rural fire, organization and intervention, relating to planning, preparation, prevention, suppression and relief and post-event, carried out by competent public entities in the integrated management of rural dwellings and by private entities in rural or urban land. SGIFR comprises the following intervention: a) Protection against rural fires, aimed to the safety and safeguard of people, animals and goods; b) Management of rural fire, aimed to the defense and promotion of the value of rural territories, considering their protective role by reducing the conditions for the occurrence and progression of rural fires. SGIFR is based on the principle of specialization of knowledge, using resources with adequate qualification and training for each of the axes of intervention above mentioned, ensuring the concerted action of all resources.

Full text
Portuguese
Website
www.dre.pt

References - Legislation

Repeals

Decree-Law No. 327/90 regulating land occupation after forest fires.

Legislation | Portugal | 1990

Keyword: Forestry protection measures, Forest fires, Forest management/forest conservation

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Law No. 76/2017 amending and republishing Decree-Law No. 124/2006 on the National Forest Fires Protection System (SDFCI).

Legislation | Portugal | 2006 (2017)

Keyword: Forest fires, Forest management/forest conservation, Forestry protection measures, Zoning, Monitoring, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Institution

Source: FAO, FAOLEX