DENR Administrative Order No. 01 of 1989: Revised Industrial Tree Plantations Regulations. Pays/Territoire Philippines Type du document Règlement Date 1989 Source FAO, FAOLEX Source d'origine Official Gazette No. 10, 6 March 1989, pp. 196-855. Sujet Forêts Mot clé Forêt privée Contrat/accord Coupe de bois/exploitation forestière Boisement/reboisement Bois de chauffe Défrichement Sous-produits forestiers Forêt publique Droit d'usage Matériel de reproduction/semences Gestion communautaire Gestion forestière/conservation des forêts Aire géographique Asie, Asie et Pacifique, East Asian Seas, Pacifique Nord, Asie du Sud-Est Résumé The Administrative Order, made under Presidential Decree No.705 as amended, prescribes the terms of leases for industrial tree plantations (ITP) and the conditions and procedures for granting them. ITPs are defined as areas of forest land planted to tree crops for industrial and energy uses (sect. 3[a]). Areas that may be leased for ITPs are essentially bare or grass- or brush-covered areas (sect. 4), but not including areas reserved for public purposes, areas to be reforested by concessionaires or adequately-stocked logged-over areas (sect. 5). (Up to 30 percent of an ITP may be adequately-stocked logged-over areas where justified by contiguity to poorly stocked areas (sect. 29). The area of a lease is limited to the amount, up to 20 000 hectares, that the lessee can develop in 5 years. Areas larger than 20 000 hectares may be leased on the basis of exellent performance (sect. 6). The ITP lease is for 25 years, renewable at the option of the lessee for another 25 years (sect. 8). In the first three years the lessee is required to plant 30 percent of the area, reaching 100 percent in five years (sect. 26). The obligations of the lessee are spelled out in part in the regulations,in part in the standard lease appended to the regulations as Annex C, and in part in the comprehensive development and management plan that the lessee is required to submit during the first year of the lease (sect. 14). The basic obligations of the lessee is to 'plant and raise trees' (Annex C(1)). Although the stated purpose of the ITP includes energy-supply, presumably through fast-growing species, the lease requires 'at least sixty (60) surviving seedlings of suitable dipterocarp species per hectare of the area after three (3) years from the start of land development' (Annex C(19). Both the regulation and standard lease restricts cutting on river banks (sect. 40; Annex C(19). Unique, rare and endangered trees must be protected (Annex C(19)). Five edible fruit-trees must be planted on every hectare to sustain wildlife (Annex C(19). Enrichment planting may be required where natural trees are cut (sect. 30). Texte intégral Anglais