Decision No. 17/2015/QD-TTg promulgating the Regulation on Forest Management.

The Decision promulgates the Regulation on forest management. The Regulation, consisting of 24 articles divided into six Chapters, prescribes the management, protection, development and use of, and benefits from, protection forests; and protection forest development investment. This Regulation applies to domestic state agencies, organizations, rural residential communities, households and individuals; overseas Vietnamese; and foreign organizations and individuals involved in the management, protection, development and use of protection forests in Vietnam. The Regulation is divided as follows: General Provisions (Chap. I); Protection Forest Management (Chap. II); Protection and Development of Protection Forests (Chap. III); Use of Protection Forests and Benefit Mechanism (Chap. IV); Non-Business Funds for and Investment in Protection and Development of Protection Forests (Chap. V); Organization of Implementation (Chap. VI).