On February 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a federal law aimed at improving the legal regulation of forest related issues, and also designed to generally increase the efficiency and transparency of the forest industry.
The federal law comes into force on February 4, 2021.
The law provides for the creation of a federal state information system of the forestry complex with the provision of full traceability of wood from its logging, storage sites to the production of processed products and export of products from the Russian Federation.
Timber suppliers will now have to provide an electronic document with indicated information about the owner, consignor, consignee, carrier of timber, its volume, species, assortment, points of departure and destination, as well as the vehicle license and details of transactions with timber. When transporting wood prepared by citizens for their own needs, purchasing wood in the retail market or in a retail trade in the amount of up to 10 cubic meters, an electronic accompanying document is not required.
The storage of wood after its logging from the cutting area will be possible only at the warehouses registered in the system, and processing - only at the objects of timber processing infrastructure, information about which is entered into the system. The law also provides for a list of information that must be included in the system: documents on forests, on their use, protection, reproduction, timber and transactions with it, as well as documents on management in the field of forestry relations, ensuring timber accounting and traceability, accounting for information about transactions with it.
The law also obliges to create a single electronic card on the Internet, which will reflect the information of the forest complexes. The map will be free of charge and available for review to all interested parties.
6.8 billion rubles were allocated for the project of the forestry complex digitalization.
In addition, the document contains provisions that provide for an experiment in 2021 in a number of regions to transfer the powers of state forest supervision to the federal level, the participation of lessees of forests in extinguishing forest fires and the ban to transfer forest plots to sublease.
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