THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
Independence– Freedom – Happiness
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No. 42/2012/TT-BNNPTNT
Hanoi, August 21, 2012
 
CIRCULAR
AMENDING AND SUPPLEMENTING A NUMBER OF ARTICLES OF THE CIRCULAR NO.01/2012/TT-BNNPTNT, OF JANUARY 04, 2012, OF THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT STIPULATING DOSSIERS OF LAWFUL FOREST PRODUCTS AND INSPECTION OF THE ORIGIN OF FOREST PRODUCTS
 
Pursuant to the December 03, 2004 Law on Forest Protection and Development;
Pursuant to the Government's Decree No. 23/2006/ND-CP of March 3, 2006, on implementation of the Law on Forest Protection and Development;
Pursuant to the Government's Decree No. 01/2008/ND-CP of January 03, 2008, and the Government's Decree No. 75/2009/ND-CP of September 10, 2009, on amending Article 3 of the Government's Decree No. 01/2008/ND-CP, of January 03, 2008, defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development;
At the proposal of Director of Forestry General Department;
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development promulgates Circular amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Circular No.01/2012/TT-BNNPTNT, of January 04, 2012 stipulating dossiers of lawful forest products and inspection of the origin of forest products. 
Article 1. To amend and supplement a number of articles of the Circular No.01/2012/TT-BNNPTNT 
1. Clause 7, Article 3 is amended and supplemented as follows:
“7. Internal transportation means the transportation of forest products between dependent cost-accounting units such as:  forest farms, forestry companies, processing plants, branches or stores of an independent cost-accounting enterprise with the legal person status; or the transportation of forest products from an independent cost-accounting enterprise with the legal person status to its dependent cost-accounting units and vice versa.
For the transportation of forest products from exploitation places to warehouses or processing places; or transportation of forest products from warehouses or processing places to delivery place between the buyer and the seller under economical contract of that batch is also considered internal transportation”.
2. Clause 1, Article 4 is amended and supplemented as follows:
"1. Volume of round timber, sawn timber and square timber shall be determined under regulation on management and tree hammer marking, ranger hammer marking of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
For stumps, roots, timber with complex shape, ornamental trees, trees for shadow or century-old trees, including their roots, trunks, branches and leaves, of which cannot be measured diameter, length for determining their volumes, and timber from concentrated-planting forest they shall be weighed in kilogram (kg) and converted at the ratio of 1,000 kg equivalent to 1 m3 of round timber or measured in steradian and converted at the ratio of one steradian equivalent to 0.7 m3 of round limber without classification under level of diameter”.

3. Point c, Clause 3, Article 5 is amended and supplemented as follows: