Governmental Decree No. 1098 “On federal state forest control (supervision).”

Country/Territory: Russian Federation
Document type: Regulation
Date: 2021
Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Subject: Forestry
Keyword: Forest management/forest conservation Public forest Forest species Planting material/seeds Afforestation/reforestation Forest fires Offences/penalties Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Enforcement/compliance
Geographical area: Arctic, Asia and the Pacific, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific
Entry into force notes: This Governmental Decree enters into force on the date of its official publication.

Abstract: This Governmental Decree establishes the procedure for organization and performance of federal state forest control (supervision). The subject of state control (supervision) is compliance by legal entities, individual entrepreneurs and citizens with the requirements established by the Forest Code of the Russian Federation, other federal laws and adopted in accordance with them other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation, laws and other regulatory legal acts of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the fields of application, protection, reproduction of forests and afforestation (including in the field of fire safety in forests), in the field of forest seeds production, with the exception of mandatory requirements in the field acceptance, transportation, processing and storage of timber and its traceability, accounting of timber and transactions therewith. State control (supervision) shall be carried out by executive bodies, their territorial bodies, state institutions subordinated thereto, within their competence in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation. The objects of state control (supervision) shall be as follows: (a) the activities of controlled persons in the field of forest management; (b) protection of forests; (c) afforestation and reforestation and afforestation; (d) production facilities: (e) forest plots, parts of forest plots, on which, inter alia, activities are carried out related to the use, protection, reproduction of forests and afforestation; and (f) means of preventing and extinguishing forest fires.
Full text: Russian
Website: publication.pravo.gov.ru