On December 11, 2014, the Prime Minister signed the Decision No. 2242/QD-TTg approving the Scheme for strengthening the management of natural forest’s timber exploitation in 2014 – 2020 in order to improve quality of natural forest and develop the production forests with high quality eligible for sustainable exploitation in order to meet the demand for natural timber for domestic consumption and gradually replace the imported timber.
With above objectives and targets, the Scheme requires to stop the exploitation of timber of natural forests nationwide, except for two (02) areas (under the management of Dak To forestry one member limited liability Company in Kon Tum province and Long Dai industry one member limited liability Company in Quang Binh province) which have been approved for the schemes and issued with certificate of sustainable forest management from international organizations and exploitation on the areas of production forests which the State has allocated to households, individuals and rural communities… implements the review and inspection over the timber processing establishments and only permitting the operation towards the establishments abiding by the planning and having stable raw materials and book system to meet the requirements for access and control of timber with legal origin and restricts the new establishment of timber processing and trading establishments. Clearing and not forming new timber processing establishments in and nearly natural forests; resolutely suspending the operation towards the timber processing establishments committing serious violation of law.
Households and individuals that are allocated with forests are only permitted to use timber for on-the-spot essential needs and must not carry out the sale and exchange in any form. The volume of timber to be exploited maximally is 10 m3/household/time but the forest resources must not be abused…District and communal People’s Committees are responsible for management, monitoring and confirmation of volume of timber that the households, individuals and communities in the areas have exploited and made use of.
Intensifying the propagation and education is also the content emphasized in this Scheme. In particular, regularly carrying out the propagation on the mass media about the policies on suspending the exploitation of timber of natural forest to people and forest owner for information and compliance and introducing the contents of forest resources to the educational programs in high school, universities and other training programs.
This Decision takes effect on the signing date.
