Decree No. 250 of the Cabinet of Ministers validating the Regulation on state registration of forests. Country/Territory Uzbekistan Document type Regulation Date 2005 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Forestry Keyword Protection forest Registration Data collection/reporting Access-to-information Forest management/forest conservation Geographical area Aral Sea, Asia, Asia and the Pacific, Central Asia, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Europe and Central Asia, Landlocked Developing Nations, North Asia Abstract This Decree establishes the modalities of state registration and keeping state register of forests for the purpose of assignment of protection category to forests, organization of rational use of forests, conservation, protection and reproduction of forests, and also supervision over changes in forest fund land. State register of forests shall be database of renewable and reliable information of forests, legal status thereof, and also the source of quantitative and qualitative assessment and economic evaluation of forests. Object of registration shall be all the national forests. The basic principles of state registration shall be: (a) completeness; (b) use of uniform spatial coordinates; (c) reliability and actuality; and (d) access to information in accordance with the modalities established by law. Full text Russian Website www.lex.uz