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Amendments To The Law Of The Forest

Original Language Title: Grozījumi Meža likumā

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The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: the law of the forest make the forest Act (Republic of Latvia Saeima and the Cabinet of Ministers rapporteur, 2000, no. 8; 2003, no. 8, 2005, nr. 10) the following amendments: 1. Express article 1, paragraph 15 as follows: ") 15: continuous monitoring of the forest observation system for forest and environmental interactions;".
2. Put the second part of article 2 in the following wording: "(2) specially protected natural areas, mikroliegum, protection zone and designated forest management district additional restrictions provided for by other laws and Cabinet regulations."
3. Article 3: put the second part of paragraph 1 by the following: "1) separate from the existing forest area, which corresponds to the first part of this article, the conditions of paragraph 1 and is less than 0.1 hectare;";
to make the second part of paragraph 3 as follows: "3) fruit gardens, parks, cemeteries and the Daylilies.";
to supplement the article with third, fourth and fifth paragraph as follows: "(3) For the forest land not considered: 1) State, local government, businesses and homes in an existing road and railway land partition zone regulations, if the path specified width or railways pass through the forest;
2) existing electrical networks and electronic communication network overhead line route width set by legislation, where the route crosses the forest.
(4) the third part of this article, the conditions of paragraph 1 shall not apply to the forestry road.
(5) the Park is public-interest nature object that can comply with this law, article 3, paragraph 1, first subparagraph, of the conditions which are specially designed infrastructure and need regular care and restoring, maintaining or improving the areas aesthetic, scenic and cultural value. For the creation of the Park and the management principles laid down by the Cabinet of Ministers. The municipality shall issue binding rules for park management and protection. "
4. Article 4: make the second subparagraph by the following: "(2) the State and State-owned nodded agreement existing on the behalf of the person in the Ministry of agriculture in the land recorded in the forest land management and protection by the State joint stock company" Latvian State forests ", established national forest management and management of the property. State joint stock company "Latvian State forests" and the company's shares not to privatise or dispose. State joint stock company "Latvian State forests" buy or forfeit the forest land only on the basis of the order of the Cabinet panels. The State joint stock company "Latvian State forests" owned forest land is subject to all the conditions of this law relating to state-owned forest or nodded. ";
to supplement the article with (21) subparagraph by the following: "(21) To the Environment Ministry, on behalf of the person in the land in a country area of forest management and protection appropriate to the nature of the specially protected areas administration."
5. Put article 5, fifth subparagraph by the following: "(5) the public officials of their duties, and forest inventories and forest workers monitoring the performance of their duties, have the right to move without restrictions, if necessary, the presentation of the service or business licence or forest inventory analyst registration document."
6. To make article 7, first paragraph, the following paragraph 5: "5) in another forest-harvesting infrastructure and maintenance, landscape, forest, land transformation, dangerous tree removal, as well as the conservation of natural values law cases."
7. Article 8 shall be expressed by the following text: "(1) the order of the felling of trees outside forest land is determined by the Cabinet of Ministers.
(2) the local authority in its binding rules for tree felling outside woodland city administrative territory determines the compensation for the reduction of biological diversity, as well as the calculation of losses and damages. Damages including the local government budget. "
8. in article 9: in the second paragraph of paragraph (2) be expressed as follows: "2) if in one facility in the Woods adjacent to the primary harvesting areas stand 1.0 per hectare and a larger area is not recognized as an update and stand at least is under three years of age, except for restore recognised stand is very refined and suited to the growing of forest tree species stick average height reached at least two metres deciduous and at least one metre tall trees;"
3. turn off the point.
9. Express article 12, the second subparagraph by the following: "(2) If tree felling the need in emergency situations (snieglauz, vējlauz, vējgāz, which interferes with the operation of the infrastructure, forest fire control and other regulations certain cases), tree felling may start after oral notification of the national forest service or article 39 of this law referred to in the second subparagraph of specially protected natural areas of the administration. Certificate shall be issued after the digging spot checks in nature. "
10. To supplement the law with 20.1 article as follows: "article to 20.1 tree seed orchards are not subject to reforestation and tree felling rules."
11. Express article 21, paragraph 1 by the following: "1) restore stand three years after harvesting (not including digging a year) or the impact of other factors, if the stand šķērslaukum has become less of a critical šķērslaukum. Cabinet growing conditions of certain forest types, you can define different forest renewal term; ".
12. To make the text of article 38 as follows: "(1) Forest and environmental interactions of the evaluation to be carried out over the entire territory of forest monitoring in accordance with the national program for forest monitoring.
(2) the monitoring of forests is financed from the State budget allocations from general revenue and funding of the European Union.
(3) Forest monitoring procedure and the monitoring of the national forest programme is determined by the Cabinet of Ministers. "
13. Add to article 40, the first part of paragraph 4 by the following: "4) on a legal basis for the transaction of property rights is not fixed in the land on behalf of the beneficiary, with the exception of article 12 of this law the second part of the event, as well as if the natural person who is assigned a permanent land use, in accordance with the limits set by law have no right to get this land ownership."
14. Express article 43 first paragraph of paragraph 3 as follows: "3") the Ministry of the environment, controlling the natural protection standards in all Latvian forests and approved forest management plans in the Gauja, Slīter, ķemeri national park, as well as Teič, Krustkaln, Grīņ and Moricsal in the nature reserve. "
15. Express article 44 second, third, fourth and fifth paragraph as follows: "(2) the national forest land in the land register on the public record the name in a procedure prescribed by law.
(3) national forest land use is not permanent and is not movable, or privatizējam, except in the fourth paragraph of this article, in certain cases.
(4) the land registry recorded in national forest land seizures or privatization can allow to dial a cabinet order in the following cases: 1) under a change of law "on the rights of landowners to compensation for the operating limits of the specially protected natural areas and mikroliegumo" the cases and procedure;
2) if national forest land requires the law "on local governments", the following set of autonomous local government functions: a) road construction, (b) the establishment or expansion of the cemetery), c) installation and maintenance of the park;
3) privatizēj as well as the land disposal (premises) building owners: a) in rural areas, land occupied by buildings (structures) and yard, as well as the building (structure) for the maintenance of the necessary land to 0.5 hectare area;
b) cities-ground occupied by buildings (constructions) in the area in which this land is building (structure) in use by the legitimate owner (building) to 0.12 hectares in area.
(5) The Cabinet of Ministers shall determine the order in which the national forest land to dispose of the fourth paragraph of this article referred to in paragraph 2, the authorities of the autonomous functions. Do not dispose of the land next to other persons or to a candidate for privatization, as well as not apgrūtinām with case law. The fourth paragraph of this article 3 the land referred to in paragraph privatizējam or dispose of State and municipal property privatization and privatization certificates of completion of the use of the procedure prescribed by law. "
16. To supplement the law with article 44.1 the following: ' article 44.1 (1) in or belonging to the municipality of forest land to burn his assent to the land registry for the name of the municipality in accordance with the procedure prescribed by law.
(2) The municipality has the right to take a decision on the refusal of the transfer or disposal of the privatization of its acquiescence or owned forest land in the State and municipal property privatization and privatization certificates of completion for the use in the cases specified in the law, as well as in cases where forest land needed recreation needs. "
17. transitional provisions be supplemented with 9, 10 and 11 the following: "9. The Cabinet of Ministers no later than 30 June 2006 issue rules governed by article 44 of this law, part of the fifth national forest land expropriation procedures.

10. Article 44 of this law, the fourth paragraph (1) shall enter into force on 1 January 2007.
11. Article 3 of this law, the fifth part of the provisions referred to in the Cabinet of Ministers issued up to 30 June 2006. "
The law adopted by the Parliament in 2006 16 February.
The President of the Parliament instead of the President i. Otter Riga 7 March 2006 Editorial Note: the law shall enter into force on the 21 March 2006.