Order No. 21 of the Federal Forest Service validating criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management. Country/Territory Russian Federation Document type Regulation Date 1998 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Forestry Keyword Forest management/forest conservation Timber extraction/logging Non-timber products Policy/planning 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 Sustainable forest management shall be carried out with the consideration of ecological and socio-economic criteria. Criteria represent the totality of the main provisions regarding forest management that shall ensure conservation and sustainable development of forests. The Regulation sets the following criteria the following criteria and indicators: Criterion 1 – sustenance and conservation of the reproductive capacity of forests; Criterion 2 – sustenance of acceptable sanitary state and viability of forests; Criterion 3 - conservation and sustenance of protective functions of forests; Criterion 4 – conservation and sustenance of biological diversity of forests and contribution thereof to the global carbon cycle; Criterion 5 – sustenance of socio-economic functions of forests; Criterion 6 – instruments of forest policy for the conservation of sustainable forest management; Indicator 1.1 regards change of the share of area of the exploitable forest land (every 5 years); Indicator 1.2 regards change of the share of the exploitable forest respectively to the total area of forest land (every 5 years); Indicator 1.3 regards change of the share of area accessible for the development of exploitable forests respectively to the total area of exploitable forests (every 5 years); Indicator 1.4 relation of allowable (calculated) and actual logging including coniferous species in exploitable forests (every 5 years); Indicator 1.5 regards relations between recommended and actual logging of the intermediate and other felling in exploitable forests (every 5 years on average); Indicator 1.6 regards change of the share of forested land (every 5 years); Indicator 1.7 regards the balance of average increase and total amount of logging (for the last 10 and 5 years); Indicator 1.8 regards resources and output of secondary forest products, including growing wild medicinal plants, edible fruits, mushrooms, technical materials and game (annually); Indicator 1.9 regards the share of forest area involved in forest organization and planning of forest management (every 5 years). Full text Russian Website www.vcom.ru