Decree No. 31 of the Cabinet of Ministers “On measures for the improvement of state inventory and monitoring of forests.”

This Decree validates the Regulation on the procedure for conducting state inventory and monitoring of forests (Annex 1). State inventory of forests shall be carried out by forestry organizations, which have been allocated for permanent use areas of the State Forest Fund, within the finances allocated to them annually from the State Budget of the Republic of Uzbekistan and at their own expense and other sources authorized by law. The state forest inventory shall be kept by the State Forestry Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan in order to monitor changes in the forest fund system and to periodically verify quantity and quality of forests. Information on changes in the condition of forests shall be entered annually by forestry organizations into forest register and accounting documents on the basis of timber extraction and other accounting materials. State forest inventory documents shall contain accurate information on the territorial, geographical location, area, protection categories, species composition of forests, types of trees and shrubs, their quantity and quality indicators. Documents of the state accounting of forests are updated on the basis of specific and detailed data, as a rule, once in ten years.