Ministerial Decree No. 377 validating the Regulation on elaboration and validation of plan for extinguishing forest fires. Country/Territory Russian Federation Document type Regulation Date 2011 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Forestry Keyword Forest fires Policy/planning Public forest Protected area Monitoring 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 This Ministerial Decree establishes the modalities of elaboration and validation of plans for extinguishing forest fires. The aforesaid plans shall be elaborated and validated by: (a) regional executive bodies in relation to public forest owned thereby; (b) authorized regional state institutions in relation to forests subordinated thereto; (c) Federal Forestry Agency in relation to forest fund; (d) Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology in relation to protected areas; and (e) authorized federal executive bodies in the sphere of security and defence in relation to forests located on land of security and defence installations. Plan shall be composed of text part and graphic part. Text part contains general information on forest characteristics, fire-protection arrangements and organization of forest fire monitoring. Graphic part shall contain maps and schemes of fire-protection arrangements, and terrestrial and aerial patrolling courses. Full text Russian Website www.government.ru