Forest Code of Georgia (No. 2124-IIS of 1999)

The Forest Code of Georgia regulates legal relations associated with tending, protection, restoration and use of the forest fund of Georgia and its resources. Its goals include: a) protecting of fundamental human rights and law enforcement in the field of forest relations; b) conducting tending, protection and restoration of forests in order to maintain and improve climatic, water regulating, protective, cultural, recreational and other natural useful properties; c) conducting tending and protection for future generations and regulating harmonized interrelations between unique natural and cultural environment and its specific components thereof including vegetation and wildlife, biodiversity, landscape, cultural and natural monuments located in forest, and the rare endangered plant species of plants, etc.; d) establishing the rights and obligations of forest users in the field of forest relations; e) meeting environmental, economic, social and cultural needs of Georgia and its population through targeted, comprehensive and rational utilisation of the forest resources, on the basis of their scientifically substantiated potential; and f) establishing the main principles of forest management. The Code is divided into eight parts and 120 articles.