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Presidential Decree No. 50 “On the improvement of timber accounting activities.”

Country/Territory
Belarus
Document type
Regulation
Date
2021
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Forestry
Keyword
Timber Timber extraction/logging Business/industry/corporations Registration Transport/storage Data collection/reporting Access-to-information Forest management/forest conservation
Geographical area
CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia
Entry into force notes
This Presidential Decree enters into force six months after its official publication.
Abstract

The President, for the purpose of accounting, control and rational management of harvested timber, decrees to ensure the implementation and operation in the Republic of Belarus unified state automated information timber accounting system and transactions with it (EGAIS), used for the formation, processing, analysis, control and storage of information on timber subject to harvesting, harvested, exported, transported and sold timber. Timber harvested on the lands of the forest fund, its transportation and trade are subject to accounting in the unified state automated information timber accounting system and transactions with it (EGAIS). Legal entities and individual entrepreneurs carrying out harvesting, and (or) logging, and (or) transportation and (or) trade of timber harvested on lands not included in the lands of the forest fund, have the right to keep records of it in the unified state automated information timber accounting system and transactions with it (EGAIS). Transportation and (or) sale by legal persons and individual entrepreneurs, as well as transportation by natural persons of timber harvested on the lands of the forest fund and not recorded in the unified state automated information timber accounting system and transactions with it (EGAIS) shall be prohibited.

Full text
English
Website
president.gov.by