Cabinet of Ministers Regulations No. 947 Riga 2012 December 18 (Mon. 37. § 71) the provisions of the forest protection measures and emergency call in the forest under forest law article 28 i. General questions 1. determines: 1.1. forest protection measures, their execution procedures and time limits; 1.2. the order in which you put in extreme situation of the forest fire, forest, attacks from parasites or disease due to mass distribution; 1.3. procedures for the control of forest health status requirements. 2. the rules also apply to specially protected natural territories, in so far as the protection and use of regulatory laws and regulations provide otherwise. 3. the rules do not apply where the forest according to the legislation on plant quarantine is found in plant quarantine organisms. II. Forest protection measures, their execution procedures and deadlines 4. If the period 1 September to 1 March deposed and broken spruce (except in dry trees) diameter greater than 20 inches, it is more than 10 cubic metres per hectare and it is not expected to recover from the stands, this provision provided for in paragraph 5. deadline, nozāģ, pruned and sagarum or protect against trunk vermin for the current year not later than April 1. 5. Each year from 1 September to 1 may the coniferous carved (except in dry trees) timber exported from the forest or protected against pests of the trunk, no later than 1 June of the current year. Conifers (except in dry wood) wood, prepared from 1 May to 1 September, leaving the forest or protected against trunk pests not later than one month after preparation. 6. If the felling of conifers in the left (except in dry trees), which tievgaļ the diameter greater than 15 inches, the amount may not exceed five cubic metres per hectare. 7. To restrict root-causing fungi Heterobasidion troupe of annos of s.l. (root of the Peipus), cut trees, removed from the forest green of spruce wood trupējuš (smashed down, a broken spruce, large scale felling residues (10-50 centimeters in diameter)). 8. From 15 April to 1 September, the fresh (not apžuvuš) digging for scrap piles bluff consists not closer than 10 metres of FIR stands (Abies represents more than 80 percent of the forested šķērslaukum) when their age exceeds 50 years, if one stands between krautuv and not on the road, ditch or other woodland infrastructure objects. 9. Care and shelter, sanitary felling shelter led to timber or treilēj about 20 centimeters deeper rise overall length must not exceed 100 meters per hectare. 10. no artificial knees, forest cover and forest road drainage ditches will align the ris atbērtn, deeper than 25 centimeters, subject to the following conditions: 10.1. each year from 1 September till 1 April rise of spread to established on 1 May. If the weather due to road Manager held in the knees has detected movement restrictions or ris is not technically possible to align the forest road situation, they spread out, no later than two weeks after the restrictions or at the forest path, technical improvement, but no later than 1 July; 10.2. the rest of the time led to the rise of the spread in the two months following the removal of timber from temporary storage. 11. Each year from 1 June to 1 September against trunk vermin unprotected wood of conifers and krautuv at sawmills closer than 500 metres of coniferous stands prohibited kept for more than one month. III. the promulgation of the emergency due to forest fires, forest pest or disease savairošano the massive spread of forest fires, the 12 forest attacks from parasites or disease in the event of mass distribution of the national forest service is entitled to propose the promulgation of the emergency. 13. the national forest service proposes an emergency call as follows: 13.1. Republican city or district or part of the territory, a direct threat to national forest service head of the Department shall submit a written proposal to the Municipal Council and the Ministry of agriculture; 13.2. all national territory or the territory of several municipalities or parts of a direct threat to national forest service Director-General shall submit a written proposal to the Ministry of Agriculture and the crisis management Council. 14. In assessing this rule 13.1 and 13.2 of the proposal referred to in point, crisis management, Ministry of agriculture, the Council or Municipal Council (with the protection of the environment and regional development Ministry) under the competency may require the Cabinet to announce emergency situation. 15. If an emergency has been announced, the Ministry of agriculture, crisis management, the Council or the relevant municipal Council a national forest service provides information on the hazards of the country, its intensity and character, as well as the size of the territory threatened changes did not immediately inform the Cabinet. IV. Forest health state monitoring of compliance with requirements 16. National forest service forest pest permanent observations, forecasts and the savairošano determine the containment measures. 17. the national forest service to assess possible risks and, if necessary, in order to assess the survey stands in the forest sanitary status: 17.1. national forest service employee has established the forest pest or disease due to damaged trees; 17.2. from the forest owner, possessor or other legal persons have received information about the pest or disease damage; 17.3. from national plant protection services is the received information on forest pest or disease damage; 17.4. from the forest owner or legal possessor has received an application for the sanitary felling of trees as forest law slapped on article 11. 18. in surveying the stand, the national forest service determines the cause of the damage, the extent of the damaged area and, if necessary, and prepare a šķērslaukum stand: 11.2. information on stumpage surveys; 18.2. the national forest service's opinion, if the sanitary: 18.2.1. stand augtspējīg tree šķērslaukum is less than the critical šķērslaukum; 18.2.2. it is necessary for the performance of sanitary cirš specially protected natural territories under their protection and use; 18.3. the promulgation of the emergency, if observed in forest pest or disease signs of mass attacks from parasites. 19. the national forest service collects information about the survey and national stands volume production forest service issued findings and health information collected every year until March 1 to submit to the Ministry of agriculture. V. closing question 20. paragraph 16 of these regulations in force at 31 December 2013. Prime Minister v. Agricultural Minister Dombrovskis, Minister of health of Cricket.