Order No. 225 of the Forestry Committee on monitoring of forest pests and diseases. Country/Territory Belarus Document type Regulation Date 2001 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Forestry Keyword Pests/diseases Monitoring Public forest Forestry protection measures Forest management/forest conservation Geographical area CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia Abstract The Regulation consists of 9 sections dealing with: (a) field of application (sect. 1); (b) terms and definitions (sect. 2); (c) general provisions (sect. 3); (d) organization and carrying out monitoring of forest pests and diseases (sect. 4); (e) pheromone entomological monitoring (sect. 5); (f) distant control methods of the sanitary state of forests (sect. 6); (g) inspection of forest pests and diseases (sect. 7); (h) inspection and registration of the breeding grounds of forest pests and diseases (sect. 8); (i) compilation of survey and forecast of the presence in the forests of pests and diseases (sect. 9). The Regulation on monitoring of forest pests and diseases establishes the modalities of the organization and carrying out monitoring of forest pests and diseases in the public forest. Monitoring shall be carried out by the Forestry Committee and shall be the main functional task of the aforesaid institution. The purpose of the monitoring shall be timely exposure of degraded forest areas infected by forest pest and diseases, access to reliable information related to sanitary state of forests for decision-making regarding the adoption of forestry protection measures. The main tasks of monitoring shall be: (a) assessment of the sanitary state of forests; (b) registration of breeding grounds of forest pests and diseases; (c) decision-making for carrying out forestry protection measures; (d) keeping of databases on forest pests and diseases. Full text Russian Website www.kaznachey.com References - Legislation Implements Ministerial Decree No. 915 on forest monitoring. Legislation | Belarus | 2001 (2004) Keyword: Radiation, Drainage/land reclamation, Monitoring, Public forest, Pests/diseases Source: FAO, FAOLEX