Ethiopian Environment and Forest Research Institute Establishment Council of Ministers Regulation No. 327/2014

This Regulation of the Council of Ministers establishes the Ethiopian Environment and Forest Research Institute as an autonomous federal government office having its own legal personality. The Institute shall, among other things: Identify, import, adapt, utilize and generate technologies that significantly contribute to forest development and environmental protection that focuses on the priorities of the country and demand of users; coordinate the environment and forest research activities carried out by environment and forest research centers or higher education institutes; build capacity and establish a system that enables the environment and forest research activities to be efficient, effective and development-based. The Institute shall also carry out operational duties such as adapting and distributing fast growing tree species that enable to mitigate environmental degradation, desertification, and extinction of species and solve problem of forest products supply and organizing environment and forest research centers, laboratories and stations.