THE PRIME MINISTER
Decision No. 2242/QD-TTg dated December 11, 2014 of the Prime Minister approving the Scheme for strengthening the management of natural forest’s timber exploitation in 2014 - 2020
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of Government dated 25 December 2001;
Pursuant to the Law on forest protection and development of wood dated 03 December, 2004;
At the request of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Report No. 219 / TTr-BNN-DOF dated 22 January, 2014.
DECIDES:
Article 1. To approve the Scheme for strengthening the management of natural forest’s timber exploitation in 2014 – 2020 with the main contents as follows:
1. Objectives
a) General objectives: Strictly controlling the exploitation of natural forest, restricting the illegal timber exploitation and properly protecting the existing area of natural forest to proactively respond to climate change and environmental protection in the spirit of Resolution of the 7th Congress of XI Party Central Committee;
b) Target: Improving 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.
2. Contents and implementation solutions
a) Stopping 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.
