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Legislative Decree 3 April 2018, n. 34-Consolidated text on forests and forestry supply chains.

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Abstract
This Legislative Decree here officially recognizes the national forest heritage as part of the national natural capital and as relevant asset of high public interest, to be protected and valued for stability and well-being of present and future generations.
The provisions here stipulated are aimed at ensuring the protection of forests and their ecological diversity and bio-cultural wealth; at promoting the active and rational management of national forestry assets in order to guarantee all sorts of environmental functions, economic and socio-cultural development; at promoting and protecting the forest economy, the mountain economy and the respective production chains as well as the agro-silvo-pastoralism; at protecting the rational use principles; at implementing various preventive actions (natural and anthropic risks, hydrogeological defense, defense against fires and biotic and abiotic adversities, climate change, recovery of degraded/damaged areas); and at imposing various principles of sustainable forest management, as listed in the text.
Date of text
Entry into force notes
This Decree enters into force on 5 May 2018.
Notes
Including amendments up to Legislative Decree 14 October 2019, No. 111 (in G.U. 14/10/2019, No. 241).
Repealed
No
Serial Imprint
Official Gazette of the Italian Republic 92/2018.
Source language

English

Legislation Amendment
No
Original title
Decreto Legislativo 3 aprile 2018, n. 34-Testo unico in materia di foreste e filiere forestali.