Concept approaches to the Russian Federation Forest Code new version

The period of the current Forest code implementation required a repeated adjustment of its standards which resulted in sufficient revision of its initial content. However there are gaps as well as newly emerged issues in forest relation regulation that require legislation decisions which implies a need of the Law version consistent review. In the Code modification it makes sense to preserve forest resource land federal ownership while establishing an opportunity to transfer its parts from federal to the federation subject ownership that will enable wider consideration of socio-economic interests in regional development. There will be a need to introduce standards to specify forests established in agricultural lands as private forests with a follow-up regulation of its management. Among concept approaches to the Code new version there is a proposal to build-up government forest management federal regulation through rearrangement of authorities between the federal center and the federation subjects focusing regions on management functions...