of July 14, 2000 No. 420-Z
Accepted by the House of Representatives on June 8, 2000
Approved by Council of the Republic on June 30, 2000
This Code establishes the legal basis of rational use, protection, protection and reproduction of the woods, increases in their ecological and resource potential.
Regulation of the forest relations is performed taking into account ideas of the wood as about set of wood and shrubby vegetation, the earth, fauna and other components of the environment having important ecological, economic and social value.
In this Code the following basic concepts and their determinations are used:
the wood - the set of the natural and artificially created wood and shrubby vegetation, ground cover, animals and microorganisms forming forest biocenosis and used in economic, recreational, improving, sanitary and hygienic, research and other purposes;
forest stands - the set of trees in the wood having certain economic and other properties;
forest resources - inventories of wood, other components and waste products of the wood in combination to sredoobrazuyushchy, water preserving, protective, sanitary and hygienic, recreational and other functions of the wood;
productivity of the wood - inventory of all components of the wood on the unit area at certain age (usually at the age of ripeness);
age of cabins - age of forest stands in case of which achievement cabins of the main use are permitted;
felling fund - inventories of the ripe and overmatured forest stands intended for wood procurement;
settlement cutting area - the regulation of annual procurement of wood established for cabins of the main use;
cabins of the main use - the cabin of ripe and overmatured forest stands for wood procurement;
reproduction of the woods - complex of actions for creation of forest plantings on the lands which are not covered with the wood where the wood grew (reforestation), to improvement of pedigree structure of the woods, increase in productivity of the woods and strengthening of their sredoobrazuyushchy, water preserving, protective, sanitary and hygienic, recreational and other functions earlier;
afforestation - complex of actions for creation of forest plantings on lands where the wood did not grow earlier;
cabins of intermediate use - cabins of care of the wood, selective sanitary cabins and cabins of reconstruction, and also the cabin of updating and forming (reorganization) of plantings;
cabins of care of the wood - the cabins consisting in periodic removal from plantings of the trees and bushes hampering the growth and development of perspective forest stands for the purpose of forming of highly productive forest plantings of target pedigree structure;
selective sanitary cabins - the cutting down of the dead standing, drying-out, weakened, damaged and sick trees which is carried out for the purpose of improvement of forest plantings and their reduction to proper sanitary condition;
cabins of reconstruction - the cabins which are carried out for the purpose of replacement of invaluable forest plantings, and also plantings losing sredoobrazuyushchy, water preserving, protective, sanitary and hygienic and other ecological functions;
cabins of updating - the cabins directed to rejuvenation of forest stands by removal in them overmatured and ripe trees on sites of the wood where cabins of the main use are not allowed and natural or artificial reforestation is provided;
cabins of forming (reorganization) - the cabins which are carried out for the purpose of creation of the uneven-aged, difficult and mixed on pedigree structure forest stands on sites of the wood where cabins of the main use are not allowed;
other cabins - the cabins which are carried out when clearing the forest areas for construction of pipelines, roads, laying of glades, creation of fire-proof gaps and other objects and also continuous sanitary cabins, cleaning of clutter (cleaning of trees in places of group inrush of the wood, formation of windfall, windbreak, snow breaker and snowbreakage);
continuous sanitary cabins - cutting down of the plantings damaged or which died as a result of impact of the centers of harmful insects on them, diseases of the wood, the fires, windbreaks and other adverse factors of the environment;
forest utilization (forest uses) - use of forest resources and extraction of useful properties of the wood in specific purposes;
the forest user - legal entity or physical person which in the procedure established by the legislation of the Republic of Belarus is granted right to use by the wood (forest resources);
the logging ticket, the order, the forest ticket (allowing documents) - the documents granting the right to short-term use by sites of the wood (the logging ticket - on the cabin of forest stand; the order - on the cabin of part of forest stand or separate trees; the forest ticket - on procurement of gallipot, minor forest resources and collateral forest utilization);
protection of the wood - complex of actions for the prevention of the fires in the woods, to their timely detection and suppression, and also on forest conservation from unauthorized fellings, pollution by sewage, chemical and radioactive materials, waste, plunders and other actions doing harm to the wood;
protection of the wood - system of actions for protection of the wood against diseases and wreckers, adverse factors of the environment;
forestry - industry of economy which tasks are ensuring needs of the republic for wood and other products of the wood, preserving and rational use of all variety of resources of forest fund, preserving and strengthening of sredoobrazuyushchy, water preserving, protective, sanitary and hygienic, recreational and other functions of the wood.
The forest legislation of the Republic of Belarus is based on the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus and consists of of this Code, decrees and presidential decrees of the Republic of Belarus, and also other regulatory legal acts of the Republic of Belarus governing the relations in the field of use, protection, protection of forest fund and reproduction of the woods.
The relations in the field of use and protection of lands of forest fund are regulated by the legislation of the Republic of Belarus on protection and use of lands.
The relations in the field of the address with the flora objects entering into forest fund are regulated by the forest legislation of the Republic of Belarus if other is not provided by legal acts of the Republic of Belarus for flora.
The relations in the field of protection and use of fauna in borders of forest fund are regulated by the legislation of the Republic of Belarus on protection and use of fauna.
The relations in the field of use, protection, protection of forest fund and reproduction of the woods located in borders of especially protected natural territories are regulated by the forest legislation of the Republic of Belarus in the part which is not contradicting the legislation of the Republic of Belarus on especially protected natural territories.
The relations connected with the woods as subject to concession are regulated by the legislation of the Republic of Belarus on investing activities and the forest legislation of the Republic of Belarus.
The relations in the field of protection and use of waters, subsoil, atmospheric air arising in connection with use, protection, protection of forest fund and reproduction of the woods are regulated by the water legislation, the legislation on subsoil, on protection of atmospheric air and other legislation of the Republic of Belarus.
The forest legislation of the Republic of Belarus is aimed at providing rational and unexhausted use of the woods, their protection, protection and reproduction proceeding from the principles of steady management of the woods and preserving biological diversity of forest ecosystems, preserving and strengthenings of sredoobrazuyushchy, water preserving, protective, sanitary and hygienic, recreational and other functions of the woods, increases in their resource potential, requirements satisfaction of society in forest resources on the basis of evidence-based, multi-purpose forest utilization.
The forest fund is formed by the woods and lands covered with them, and also forest lands which are not covered with the wood and not forest lands.
Borders of forest fund are determined by otgranicheniye of lands of forest fund from lands of other categories according to the procedure, determined by regulatory legal acts of the Republic of Belarus.
Do not enter into forest fund:
single trees, their groups, and also other wood and shrubby vegetation, including the windbreak forest fields located on lands of agricultural purpose;
single trees, their groups, and also other wood and shrubby vegetation within strips of branch iron and highways, others transport and lines of communication and channels;
single trees, their groups, and also other wood and shrubby vegetation on lands of improving organizations, settlements (except for the city woods), on the parcels of land provided to citizens for conducting collective gardening and country construction, personal subsidiary farm, construction and servicing of apartment houses.
The address with the wood and shrubby vegetation which is not entering into forest fund is regulated by the legislation of the Republic of Belarus on flora, forest and other legislation of the Republic of Belarus.
The forest and not forest lands located in borders of forest fund are part of lands of forest fund.
The lands covered with the wood, and also not covered with the wood, but intended for its recovery (cutting down, ashes, the died forest stands, retinas, waste grounds, glades, the areas occupied with the nurseries which are not closed by forest cultures, etc.), provided for forest management belong to forest lands.
The lands which are not covered with the wood and not intended for its recovery (the lands occupied with glades, fire-proof gaps, forest roads, meliorative systems, and also lands under building, the broken lands and other lands which are not used for afforestation), located in borders of forest fund and provided for forest management belong to not forest lands.
The woods in the Republic of Belarus are exclusive property of the state.
The Republic of Belarus performs ownership, use and the order of the woods through the state bodies authorized on that within their competence taking into account sredoobrazuyushchy, water preserving, protective, sanitary and hygienic, recreational and other functions of the woods for the benefit of citizens of the Republic of Belarus and in state interests.
The wood and other forest products got (prepared) by forest users when implementing forest uses according to the procedure established by the forest legislation of the Republic of Belarus are their property if other is not established by the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus.
Objects of the forest relations are the forest fund, certain sites of forest fund, right to use by them.
Objects of the forest relations are used and protected taking into account multipurpose value of the woods, and also recognition by their fixed asset of production in forestry.
The Republic of Belarus, administrative and territorial units of the Republic of Belarus, legal entities and physical persons of the Republic of Belarus and foreign states, and also stateless persons can be subjects of the forest relations.
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The document ceased to be valid since December 31, 2016 according to Article 111 of the Forest code of the Republic of Belarus of December 24, 2015 No. 332-Z