Ministerial Decree No. 1240 regarding validation of the Federal Special Program (FSP) “Russian Forests” for the period of 1997-2000. Country/Territory Russian Federation Document type Regulation Date 1997 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Forestry Keyword Agro-forestry Forest management/forest conservation Forest service/forest officers Forestry protection measures Ecosystem preservation 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 Abstract The Government, for the purpose of strengthening conservation, protection and reproduction of forests, as well as for ensuring rational use of forest resources, decrees to validate the Program. The Government decrees to validate Federal Forest Service state customer-coordinator of the Program and to validate the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Agriculture and Food state customers as regards the respective directions of the Program. The arrangements of the Program are aimed at ensuring rational and inexhaustible use of forest stock, protection, conservation and reproduction of forests based upon the principles of sustainable forest management and conservation of biological diversity of forest ecosystem, raising up ecological and resource potential of forests, meeting the public demands in forest resources in accordance with scientifically substantiated multi-purpose forest management. The Regulation contains the passport of the Program and consists of 8 Sections. Section 1 establishes the purposes and the tasks of the Program. Section 2 gives the outline of the contemporary state of the stock of forest, forest management and forest reproduction. Section 3 regards the system of program arrangements and forestry. Section 4 regards state forest service. Section 5 regards scientific and technical provision. Section 6 regards resource provision. Section 7 regards organization of the management and control over the realization of the Program. Section 8 regards assessment of the expected silvicultural and economic and ecological efficiency as a result of carrying out program arrangements. Full text Russian