Decree No. 722 of the Council of Ministers validating specific measures. Country/Territory Belarus Document type Regulation Date 2019 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Forestry Keyword Forest management/forest conservation Public forest Forest fires Monitoring Offences/penalties Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Geographical area CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia Entry into force notes This Decree enters into force three months after the date of its official publication. Abstract This Decree establishes specific requirements for ensuring fire safety in the forest fund (public forests) of the Republic of Belarus. Liability or non-fulfilment of the requirements shall entail liability in accordance with acting legislation. Legal persons performing forest management and forestry operation shall have the duty: (a) to ensure that these specific requirements are met; (b) to perform forest firefighting arrangements according to the forest management project; (c) to monitor the implementation of firefighting measures, envisaged by the technological map for logging development, harvesting of stumps and roots; (d) to ensure that annual training activities are developed and implemented for the fire season in the forest fund; (e) to make departmental accounting of forest fires, analyze their causes in the forest area under their responsibility and in a timely manner to take action to address those causes; (f) to inform state fire supervision authorities in cases of non-fulfilment of fire break plowing ща agricultural land; (g) to mobilize forces and funds to extinguish forest fires in accordance with approved local executive and regulatory plans for extinguishing forest fires on the relevant territory. Full text Russian Website pravo.by