Decree No. 001/PR on the sharing of revenue from timber harvested in the Production Forest Areas. Pays/Territoire Lao, Rép. dém. populaire Type du document Règlement Date 2012 Source FAO, FAOLEX Sujet Forêts Mot clé Gestion forestière/conservation des forêts Coupe de bois/exploitation forestière Mesures de protection des forêts Utilisation durable Mesures fiscales et de marché Pauvreté Bois Questions de procédures Aire géographique Asie, Asie et Pacifique, Nations en développement sans littoral, Pays les moins avances, Asie du Sud-Est Entry into force notes This Decree enters into force on the date of its signature. Résumé This Decree, consisting of 12 articles divided into four Chapters, defines the principles and procedures on the division, management, and use of the revenue gained from the sales of wood exploited in the production forest areas, as the budgetary source to supply funds for the forestry management, protection, conservation, and development activities, primarily for the production forests, and/or as the development funds for the villages or the village groups bordered with the production forest areas, aimed at ensuring the stable budgetary source to supply the forestry development activities, and the contribution to support the production, to solve the ethnical poverty. This is also used to ensure the mastery actions from the concerned people and sectors to participate in the management, protection, conservation, development and the sustainable use of the production forests. The revenue gained from the sales of wood exploited in the Production Forest Areas is the total value of wood sold under the bidding and/or through the price comparison. The Decree is divided as follows: General Provisions (I); Revenue Division from the Sales of Wood Exploited in the Production Forest Areas (II); Management, the Use, and the Audit of Revenue Gained from the Sales of Wood Exploited in the Production Forest Areas (III); Final Provisions (IV). Texte intégral Lao/Anglais Site web www.forestlegality.org