Order No. 1.337 of the Ministry of Environment, Water and Forests validating Methodological Rules on the establishment and use of the Forest Land Improvement Fund.

The sources for setting up the Forest Land Improvement Fund are the following: (a) the equivalent value of the forest ecosystem services provided by maintaining the forest protection functions, which are paid by the direct or indirect beneficiaries of the forest ecosystem services; (b) the amount to be paid in the case of areas smaller than 50 sq m, permanently withdrawn from the national forest fund without compensation; (c) the deposited guarantee and the afferent bank interest; (d) the fee for the final removal of the land from the forest fund; (e) the guarantee for the temporary occupation of the land from the forest fund; (f) the tax equivalent to the tax of definitive withdrawal from the national forest fund, which is paid for the change of the category of forestry use of the land with forestry destination from the use of “forest” to another forestry use; (g) the amounts that represent the value of the unrealized forest functions; (h) the equivalent value of the surplus of detention by seizure/expropriation (RMU); (i) the amounts that are determined as compensations for damages in forests or in the forest vegetation for which the forest administration/services are not insured; (j) the amount due as compensation for lack of use, in case of non-return of land at the deadline provided in the approval act, calculated according to the specific methodology, until the date of resumption of land in the national forest fund or obtaining a new approval; (k) the amount received from the sale of confiscated timber from the state-owned forest fund, remaining after deducting the costs of custody, auction organization and transport, as the case may be, as well as the amount received from the payment of confiscated timber related to the publicly owned forest fund to the state that cannot be found or that cannot be identified; and (l) interest received on cash, on deposits consisting of income collected from the achievements of the activity related to the provision of forest ecosystem services.