16:28 03.08.2018

EBA calls on govt to develop rules for timber sale, taking into account access to common resources

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The European Business Association (EBA) insists on the development and adoption of a normative legal act on the implementation of rules for timber sale by processors in compliance with the conditions of competition and access to common resources.

Such an initiative of the association is contained in the appeal to Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, as well as to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food.

"In this context, it is advisable to specify in the rules the norms on the supply by state forestry agencies on direct contracts of 70% of timber of the total volume of wood, which was purchased by the processing entity in the previous 12 months, as well as the mandatory submission by state forestry agencies of information (no later than September of each year) about forest resources to be processed next year," the report says.

The EBA also proposes to exclude the norm on the creation of a single entity for management of forestry and the liquidation of state forestry enterprises as legal entities from the Forestry Reform Strategy until 2022, and also stipulate in this document the norms that forests cannot be transferred to concession or leased.

In addition, the EBA stresses the need to exclude the possibility of introducing any rules that would favor the explicit or implicit privatization of state forests.

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