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Order No. 12 of the Committee on Forestry and Hunting validating the Regulation on transfer of unforested land to forested land within state forest fund.

Country/Territory
Kazakhstan
Document type
Regulation
Date
2005
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Forestry, Land & soil
Keyword
Public forest Afforestation/reforestation Forest species Forest management/forest conservation Transfer
Geographical area
Aral Sea, Asia, Caspian Sea, Central Asia, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Europe and Central Asia, Landlocked Developing Nations, North Asia
Abstract

This Order establishes that transfer of unforested land to forested land within state forest fund shall be carried out by public forest owner in accordance with the modalities set by this Governmental Order. Felling areas, burnt forest areas, grassy glades and areas of dead vegetation shall be subject to transfer to forested land category after afforestation and reforestation arrangements or natural afforestation and reforestation. Transfer shall be carried out after inspection of the areas by the officials of the authorized forestry institution. Assessment of the state of natural afforestation of coniferous and broad-leaved forest species shall be carried out in accordance with scale set by normative legal acts regulating the issues of timber extraction. Annex 1 contains the scale of normative assessment indices of forest species subject to transfer to forested land.

Full text
Russian
Website
www.government.kz

References - Legislation

Repealed by

Ministerial Decree No. 561 validating the Regulation on transfer of unforested areas to forested areas in public forest.

Legislation | Kazakhstan | 2010 (2015)

Keyword: Public forest, Afforestation/reforestation, Forest species, Forest management/forest conservation, Inventory

Source: FAO, FAOLEX