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Administrative Measures On Public Welfare Forests In Zhejiang Province

Original Language Title: 浙江省公益林管理办法

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Zangan Province's approach to public good forest management

(Summit No. 260 of 17 April 2009 by the People's Government Order No. 260 of 17 April 2009)

Chapter I General

In order to strengthen the construction, protection and management of public goods, this approach is based on the provisions of laws, regulations, such as the People's Republic of China Forest Law, the People's Republic of China Forest Law Enforcement Regulations and the Forest Management Regulations of the Zangang Province.

Article 2 of this approach refers to the function of ecological benefits and social benefits, which are based on the relevant provisions of the State and the province, forests, forests, and suitable forests, including protection forests, special-purpose forests, are published and signed by public interest forest protection agreements.

The public good works are divided into public goods at the national, provincial and municipal levels.

Article III applies to the construction, protection, use and management of State-level, provincial public good forests within the territorial administration. The law, administrative legislation and regulations are also provided for by them.

Article IV

Article 5 Governments of more people at the district level should incorporate public good forest construction into national economic and social development planning, including in government work objective nuclear content, secure financial inputs, incorporate public good forest management funds into the financial budget and promote effective implementation of the protection and management responsibilities of public goods by the Government and relevant sectors.

The communes (including townships, street offices, etc.) are specifically designed, protected and managed in accordance with the request of the Government of the High-level People.

Article 6

The relevant sectors such as development reform, public safety, finance, land resources, construction, transport, agriculture, water, audit, environmental protection, tourism are governed by their respective responsibilities by the relevant supervision of the construction and protection of public goods.

Chapter II

Article 7

In delineating the scope of public goods, municipalities or district-level governments in the area should consult fully with forest, forest wood, forest owners and users, including contractors' operators, with the consent.

Article 8

The size of provincial public good forest construction is summarized by the provincial forest administration authorities and approved by the Government of the province.

The size of the approved public good forest construction cannot be changed. For reasons such as leakage, occupation of forested land, the city or the local government should be filled in a timely manner.

Article 9 builds on national and provincial public interest forests with the approval of a public good forest protection agreement between the urban or district-level people of the establishment area and the forest, forest wood, forest-based collective ownership, and the use of the owner. The public good forest protection agreement should contain four to scope, protection measures, financial compensation and default.

The signing of a public good forest protection agreement should be guided by voluntary principles and no unit or individual may be forced.

Article 10. Municipal or district-level governments register, stores, publishes and establish public good forest symbols.

The logic of public goods should indicate the types of public goods, areas, persons responsible. No unit or individual shall destroy or unauthorized a movable public good.

Sections such as transport, rail, water conservation, construction ( gardening), tourism should strengthen roads, railways, the rivers, the construction of public goods in areas such as lakes, water banks, and the building of public interest forests in the area of wind poles.

Article 12. Low-efficiencies such as inefficient forests for ecological protection functions, maiming forests should be renovated by public service operators and individuals to enhance the ecological protection functions of public goods.

The reforestation of public goods should be guided by the natural changes of forests, building forest ecosystems that are reasonably, ecologically effective and socially stable through natural upgrading and mangrove measures.

Under Article 13, fires and pests in public interest forests, etc., should be restored to forest vegetation by year or later.

Article 14. The Government of the above-mentioned people at the district level shall grant appropriate afforestation assistance to the completion of the low-efficiencies of the public good forest, to the units and individuals of fires, pests.

Chapter III Protection

Article 15. Municipal or district-level governments and commune governments or other relevant units with public interest in forest escorts, the commune governments and villagers' committees should enter into documents for the protection of public goods and implement the responsibilities of public goods.

The commune Government, the Village People's Commission and other relevant units should be equipped with the appropriate collaborators to implement the responsibilities of escorts, in accordance with the requirements of the public good.

Article 16 prohibits:

(i) The construction of graves, the opening of cereals and the removal of sands, the extraction of land and the reclaim of deforestation;

(ii) Exhumation of living trees;

(iii) Other acts prescribed by law, regulations.

Article 17 For raising and updating the need for logging, a licence for logging should be governed by law.

The following public goods are prohibited from harvesting:

(i) The forests of the monuments and the memorials of the revolution;

(ii) Forests in core areas and buffer zones in natural protected areas;

(iii) Laws, regulations prohibit harvesting.

A public good forest wood in one of the following cases may be updated for harvesting, but the intensity of the harvest shall not exceed 25 per cent of the pre-forestation harvest and a single harvest area shall not exceed 1 hectares:

(i) The average age of major tree species reached mature;

(ii) Over 30 per cent of endangered trees;

(iii) A single tree structure that requires a renovation.

Article 19 Removal of public goods shall be in accordance with the following provisions:

(i) The downturn in preforestry, ecological protection functions, which should not exceed 15 per cent of the pre-forestation sampling, and the closure of the harvest shall not be less than 0.7;

(ii) The extraction of the bamboo category should not exceed the annual bambodia, and the closure of the post-conclusive depression shall not be less than 0.7 and the forest wood in the bamboforest shall not be harvested;

(iii) Exposure of logging and matrimonial forests for experimental purposes should be used in the appropriate manner and intensity of harvesting;

(iv) The need for logging for natural disasters, such as pests, fires and snow pressure, wind commutation, should be used as the necessary means of harvesting and intensity of harvesting.

(v) The necessary logging and intensity should be used for the construction of fire protection facilities and the creation of bio-safety breaks.

Any unit and individual have the obligation to protect public good forest and have the right to investigate and combat acts that undermine public interest forests.

Chapter IV Management

Article 21 There is a need for change and should be governed by the following provisions:

(i) Changes in provincial public interest forests as non-farm forests, with the consent of the provincial forest administration authorities, and termination of public interest forest protection agreements;

(ii) Changes in State-level public interest forests as non-farm forests are implemented in accordance with the relevant national provisions.

The construction of works should not be or have fewer public goods. There is a need for the occupation of public interest forested land and should be in accordance with the laws, regulations and national regulations.

Article 23 engages in activities such as forest tourism, leisure, etc. in public interest forests, and shall protect the ecological environment and shall not damage, undermine forest resources.

Article 24 should strengthen monitoring of the construction, protection, use of public goods at all levels of the forest administration authorities; identify violations of the provisions of the law, legislation and this approach should be stopped and inspected in a timely manner.

Monitoring of inspection and processing results should form a written record and be preserved after the signature of the inspector.

Article 25

Article 26

Chapter V Compensation Fund

Article 27 sets up the Forest Eco-benefit Compensation Fund by the Government of the province, which grants benefits to public goods in accordance with the prescribed standards.

National or provincial public good forest-based municipalities, district-level governments should establish the Forest Eco-efficiency Compensation Fund to compensate for public goods, and the compensation criteria shall not be lower than the provincial standards.

The Forest Eco-efficiency Compensation Fund is mainly used:

(i) Losal compensation for the owner or the owner;

(ii) The costs of care, such as labour compensation, training, labour security, for the escorts of the personnel;

(iii) Public escort costs such as forest fire prevention, forest resources and ecological condition monitoring, forest harmful biological control;

(iv) Management costs such as public good forest demarcation, advocacy, training, management system construction, inspection, inspection and receipt.

Article 29 of the Forest Eco-efficiency Compensation Fund is subject to exclusive management and specialization. The financial sector should be earmarked and paid in accordance with the following provisions:

(i) Article 28, paragraph (i), provides for compensatory payments for damages and shall be made promptly and in full to the deposit accounts of the owner or the owner;

(ii) The costs of escort under article 28, subparagraph (ii), should be directly allocated to the specialized accounts of the various units;

(iii) Public escort costs under article 28, subparagraph (iii), should be directly allocated to the accounts of the project implementation units;

(iv) The management costs set out in article 28, subparagraph (iv), should be directly allocated to the accounts of units entrusted with public management mandates.

Article 33 Governments of more people at the district level should gradually improve the standard of compensation for public goods in accordance with economic development and improve the forest eco-efficiency compensation mechanism.

Any unit or person in Article 31 shall not be diverted, interdicted and transferred to forest eco-efficiency compensation funds.

The audit sector should conduct audit oversight of the use of the Forest Eco-benefit Compensation Fund.

Chapter VI Legal responsibility

Article 32, in violation of the provisions of this approach, stipulates that the law, legislation and regulations have legal responsibilities.

Article 33 Construction and protection of public goods, such as the forest administration authorities, are one of the following acts, and the responsible supervisors and direct responsibilities are subject to administrative disposition by the competent authority in accordance with the management authority; and constitutes an offence punishable by law:

(i) Approval of the harvesting of public goods in violation of relevant laws, regulations and methods;

(ii) Removal, interception and transfer of forest eco-benefit compensation funds;

(iii) The payment of forest eco-efficiency compensation funds in accordance with article 29 of the scheme;

(iv) Reduce, quality and decreases in public interest forest resources, such as theft of harvested public goods, the unlawful use of occupies of public goods forests and mismanagement;

(v) There are other acts of negligence, abuse of authority, provocative fraud.

Article 34, in violation of this approach, provides for the unauthorized harvesting of public interest forests or the non-appropriation of licenses under the forest wood harvest, with severe penalties under the provisions of the People's Republic of China Forest Law, the People's Republic of China Forest Law Enforcement Regulations.

Article XV, in violation of this approach, destroys or unauthorized mobile public goods loggings, which are subject to a period of time by the forestry administrative authorities to the restitution of the status quo, which has not been restored by the forest administration authorities, is subject to the responsibility of the responsible person and may be fined up to $200,000.

Article XVI does not provide for afforestation within the deadline set out in Article 13 of this approach, which is being modified by the responsibility of the forest administration authorities; unprocessarily, a fine may be imposed on the amount of €1 to 5 per square met area, subject to afforestation.

Article 337, which has led to changes in national and provincial public goods to non-public works, is punished by the forest administration authorities in accordance with Article 46 of the People's Republic of China Regulation on the Application of Forest Law.

Chapter VII

Article 338 provides for the construction, protection, use and management of public goods at the municipal level.

Article 39 of this approach is implemented effective 1 June 2009. The Zangang Province's Priorities for the Management of Ecological Economies (Time pilots) was repealed on 18 January 2005.