Ministerial Order No. 2/2020 establishing the Functional Organic structure of the Directorate-General for Forests, Coffee and Industrial Plants.

This Ministerial Order, consisting of 24 articles divided into five Chapters, establishes the Functional Organic structure of the Directorate-General for Agriculture of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (called DGFCPI of MAP). It establishes composition, duties and responsibilities of the DGFCPI entitled to perform the following tasks: a) Define policies, programmes and plans relevant to the area of forests, nature conservation, coffee, industrial plants and biodiversity, namely in the definition of an integrated soil and subsoil management plan and in the implementation of a biodiversity conservation strategy; b) Coordinate the implementation of policies, plans, programs and strategies in the scope of forests, nature conservation, coffee and industrial plants; c) Contribute to the development of environmental standards, namely with regard to forests, water basins, soils and subsoil; d) Protect the country's biological diversity, in coordination with other services, and for the sustainable management of forests and their respective resources, the coffee plant and other industrial plants; e) Promote the integration of environmental policy in forestry sector, nature conservation, biodiversity, coffee and industrial plants; f) Coordinate the development and implementation of mechanisms to combat deforestation and forest degradation involving communities; g) Collaborate in the definition of an integrated soil and subsoil management plan, as well as in the definition and implementation of a biodiversity conservation and recovery strategy; etc.