Forest Code. Country/Territory Armenia Document type Legislation Date 2005 (2023) Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Forestry, Water Keyword Framework law Basic legislation Forest management/forest conservation Forest service/forest officers Public forest Afforestation/reforestation Private forest Timber extraction/logging Non-timber products Monitoring Biodiversity Sustainable use Freshwater pollution Pollution control Geographical area Asia, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Europe, Europe and Central Asia, Landlocked Developing Nations, Western Asia Entry into force notes Forest Code enters into force ten days after its official publication. Abstract This Code shall regulate relations connected with sustainable forest management - guarding (Forstwart), protection (Forstschutz), rehabilitation, afforestation and rational use of forests and forest lands of the Republic of Armenia as well as with forest stock-taking, monitoring, control and forest lands. Forests and forest lands shall be classified by ownership as public, community and private. State forests and forest lands shall not be subject to alienation to communities, legal persons and citizens. The forest established on the lands owned by communities, legal persons and citizens by their owners shall be regarded as their property. The Act establishes the rights and duties of forest owners, the competence of the Government, authorized institutions and local self-government in the sphere of sustainable forest management. The forests shall be classified by purposeful use as follows: (a) protection forests; (b) special use forests (protected areas, urban forests); and (c) productive forests used for timber extraction. Sustainable forest management shall be carried out in accordance with forest management plans and it shall be based on forest monitoring data. Forest owners, forest managers and forest users shall have the right to guard forests from unauthorized occupation, illegal loggings, illegal grazing, pollution, waste dumping and other activities prohibited by legislation and causing damage to forest biodiversity as well as infringements of forest legislation. Forest guarding and protection shall be implemented by the State Forest Service. The owners of the forests and forest lands shall allocate forests or forest lands for free of charge or on lease, as well as for other purposes envisaged by this Code. State forests or forest lands shall be allocated for free of charge use in the cases envisaged by the law and other normative-legal acts. The following types of forest use shall be authorized: (a) timber extraction; (b) collecting of secondary timber products; (c) collecting of non-timber products; (d) fauna reproduction and use; (e) scientific research; and (f) recreation and tourism. Citizens shall have the right of free access, stay and collection of non-timber forest products for personal consumption in public and community forests. Full text English Website www.arlis.am References - Legislation Repeals Forest Code (No.S-1111-1.-ZR-122 of 1994). Legislation | Armenia | 1994 Keyword: Basic legislation, Forest service/forest officers, Forest management/forest conservation, Forestry protection measures, Dispute settlement, Afforestation/reforestation, Classification/declassification, Registration, Timber, Timber extraction/logging, Recreational forest Source: FAO, FAOLEX Amended by Law No. HO-304-N amending Forest Code. Legislation | Armenia | 2018 Keyword: Institution, Public forest, Forest management/forest conservation, Forest service/forest officers, Registration, Inventory, Agro-forestry, Afforestation/reforestation, Monitoring, Community management, Offences/penalties, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Source: FAO, FAOLEX