Government Regulation No. 7 re Timber Estate Forest Concession.

The Regulation is divided into the following Chapters: General Provisions (I); The Objective of the Timber Estate Concession (II); Objective of the Timber Estate Concession (III); Area and Location of the Timber Estate Forest (IV); The Granting of Timber Estate Forest Concession (V); Timber Estate Forest Concession Holders (VI); Duties of the Timber Estate Forest Concession Holders (VII); Funding (VIII); Collection of the Timber Estate Forest Products (IX); The Termination of the Timber Estate Forest Concession (X); Sanctions (XI); Transitional Provisions (XII); Concluding Provisions (XIII).
The objectives of the concession are: (a) to support the development of the domestic forest products industries; (b) to increase the land productivity and the life environmental quality; (c) to expand employment and business opportunities. The concession may be granted to State companies, Private companies and cooperatives. Further provisions concern the procedure for the granting of the concession, funding, and termination of the concession. The Regulation establishes also the duties of the concession holders, among which article 13 states the obligation to employ a sufficient number of forestry experts in the fields of forest planning, sylviculture and forest exploitation.