Directive No. 10/LN-KL on Rectifying and Strengthening Management in the Logging Stage

DIRECTIVE

OF THE MINISTRY OF FORESTRY NO. 10-LN/KL DATED APRIL 12, 1986 ON

CORRECTING AND STRENGTHENING MANAGEMENT IN THE LOGGING STAGE

WOOD

Wood is a material resource under unified management by the State.

The State has issued many legal documents providing a comprehensive and strict system for the unified management of logging, purchasing, submission, distribution of wood, policies on payment and submission of funds for forest maintenance, and cooperation and joint ventures in logging activities...

However, to date, localities, sectors, including state forestry organizations at the local level, have not strictly complied with these regulations. Many negative phenomena have occurred such as issuing orders arbitrarily, organizing logging for personal use, consumption, exchange, and distribution outside the plan with large volumes of wood. As a result, the situation has become dangerous, with the State unable to accurately grasp the wood material supply plan, the capacity to provide wood for the State's plan and people's needs being very tense, significant losses in forest maintenance funds, severe damage to forests, and complex situations of free circulation of wood on the market.

To promptly address the above situation, based on current state laws, the Ministry issues urgent directives on correcting and strengthening management in the logging stage as follows:

1. Logging in state-owned forests shall be uniformly managed by the Forestry sector. Only forestry-industrial unions, state-owned forestry farms, or units, agencies, cooperatives assigned tasks by the Forestry sector may engage in logging. Any demand for logging and using wood beyond the plan index specified in the state law must be approved by the Minister of Forestry and recorded in the logging plan of the local Forestry Department.

2. All areas of wood forests to be logged must have a logging design that has been approved by the competent authority as stipulated in Directive No. 37-VP/TH dated September 29, 1982, and Directive No. 8-CNR dated March 12, 1985 of the Ministry of Forestry. If a wood forest does not have an approved logging design, logging must absolutely not proceed. For wood forests requiring immediate logging due to urgent needs, a preliminary design must also be prepared and approved by the Director of the local Forestry Department before logging can commence; for units subordinate to the Ministry, approval from the Ministry of Forestry is required.

3. All types of wood products harvested from forests in various localities, including central and local planned wood, unplanned wood, utilized wood, and household wood, must be comprehensively aggregated into the annual planned wood of the local Forestry Departments to accurately grasp the actual logging capacity of each locality contributing to the annual national economic plan.

4. Wood extracted from state-owned forests, regardless of the type of wood product, must fully comply with the current regulations on submitting funds for forest maintenance. Localities are not allowed to arbitrarily grant exemptions or reductions in forest maintenance funds contrary to legal provisions. Any actions to evade the submission of forest maintenance funds must be promptly detected and appropriately dealt with.

5. Transportation of all types of wood during the circulation and distribution phase must follow the transportation procedures prescribed by the Ministry of Forestry.

6. For localities where there is a shortage of labor and materials locally and which need to cooperate with other sectors and regions to organize logging forces and forest products to implement their plans, permission from the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and the Minister of Forestry is required, and they must adhere to specific provisions and guidelines set forth by the Ministry of Forestry.

7. To ensure strict compliance with the above regulations, local Forestry Departments and People's Forest Inspection Districts have the responsibility to widely disseminate this Directive, organize supervision, inspection, and monitoring of its implementation within their jurisdiction, and report the situation and results of implementation to the Ministry of Forestry. People's Forest Inspection Districts, according to their functions and responsibilities defined by law, need to closely coordinate with local legal authorities to develop plans and measures to strengthen inspections and controls at the source of forests, during the circulation and distribution phase, and handle all violations and crimes in the field of wood resource management firmly and decisively in accordance with current laws.

The National Forest Inspection Bureau, the Forest Industry Department, and the Supervision Board are responsible for coordinating guidance, monitoring, and summarizing the implementation of the Directive nationwide and periodically (every three months) to report to the Minister of Forestry.