Forest Management Act of 1992.

An Act to provide for the management and conservation of forest resources, and to regulate forest exploitation and the primary forest processing industry, in order to increase the economic, social and ecological functions of forests as national resource and to enhance a responsible development of the forestry industry (preamble).
The Act consists of 63 sections divided into 8 Chapters: General provisions (I); basic principles of rational use of a natural resource forest (II); Classification of forests according to purpose and use (III); Forest management (IV); Forest exploration and Forest Exploitation (V); Timber transport and forestry industry (VI); Enforcement and penal provisions (VII); Transitional and final provisions (VIII).
Section 2 assigns to the Minister of Natural Resources (“the Minister”) the responsibility for forest management and defines the basic principles of management principally with respect to conservation of the ecosystem and rational development of the forest industry. A forest may be classified as a permanent forest, a one-time exploitation forest or a forest that shall be maintained for the time being. A forest shall be declared permanent forest by State Decree and may be further classified as production forest, protection forest or specially protected forest (definitions of all types of forests are given in section 1). A one-time exploitation forest is a forest that shall be completely cleared of trees and be destined to other use and shall be designed as such by the Minister. The Minister shall adopt a forest inventory program under section 9 and forest management plans under section 10. Further regulation making and other powers of the Minister with respect to forest management are specified in sections 14 and 15. Exploitation of public forests (forests of the domain) is allowed only with a permit issued under or pursuant to this Act (sects. 23 and 24), a forest concession granted under sections 25 to 37 or any other form of forest exploitation mentioned in sections 38 to 42 (sect. 16). The last part of Chapter V (sects. 43 and 44) concerns control on forest exploitation All persons that commercially transport timber or other forest products or trade therein, shall register in the register that shall be maintained by the Department responsible for forest management pursuant to section 46. Sections 45 to 49 define, inter alia, regulation making powers of the Minister with respect to transportation of timber and other aspects of the forest products processing industry.