Vladimir Bondar described the improvement of normative base of forestry

During the retreat meeting of the agricultural Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, which took place on February 13 in Lviv, Deputy Head of the State Agency for forest resources Volodymyr Bondar described the improvement of normative-legal base of forestry.

“The project of the strategy of the State forest agency contains a list of legal acts, which regulate different aspects of forestry and need urgent development or improvement. And the following projects of change we have developed, “he said.

In particular, according to Volodymyr Bondar, requires amendments to the Forestry code to resolve the issues of conducting a national inventory of forests, the operation of State forest protection; normative regulation of functioning of electronic accounting of wood in the forests of permanent lìsokoristuvačìv that do not belong to the sphere of management of State forest Agency. This issue is on the agenda for a long period of time, but is still not settled.

Also the Deputy Head of the State forest Agency drew attention to the fact that the problem of illegal cuttings in recent years has expanded due to the deterioration of the economic situation in the country, the low level of employment and the possibility of marketing of illegally harvested the wood.

“The Increased number of criminal groups equipped with the latest technical innovations. They are defiantly in the night period and committing attacks on forest protection,-said Vladimir Bondar.

According to him, is necessary to ensure the proper investigation of illegal felling and strengthen control over the activities of entities involved in the processing of wood, as well as to strengthen the functions of State forest protection.

“Deržlìsagentstvo has already become an obstacle the shadow turnover of wood. We fully implemented the electronic registration of wood in their lìsgospah – from procurement to implementation. However, there is a black hole (one third of the forests of Ukraine) – municipal, military, other ministries, in which in General is unknown. Therefore it is necessary to introduce accounting for all forestry enterprises, “he stressed.

In addition, the Deputy Head of the Agency said that the adoption of the Bill on the wood market, which is to improve current mechanisms for selling timber in accordance with European practice.

A note from the paid to the issue of pest of forest and massive vsihannâm.

“Nadšvidkimi pace walks spread” biological wildfires “in pine forests which en masse like a. In Polissya in 2017, fixed 150 thousand. hectares damaged. You need to make a drastic, drastic steps to recovery of the forests, or we’ll lose them in the near future. We urgently require amendments to the regulations in the forests of Ukraine. Deržlìsagentstvom has already prepared a reasonable material for amendments to regulations in the forests of Ukraine. At the moment the document is pending interested central bodies of executive power, “said Volodymyr Bondar.

Also, in his words, there is a need to amend the legislation regarding the transfer of samozalìsenih land to forest land; amendments to the criminal and administrative codes of Ukraine in strengthening responsibility for arson on natural landscapes, amendments to the law of Ukraine «on wildlife» on settlement of action in the season of silence, etc.