Decree No. 27/2021/ND-CP on management of forest tree cultivars.

This Decree provides for management of forest tree cultivars, including conservation of genetic resources; cultivar research, selection, creation and testing; labels and names of forest tree cultivars; management of quality of forest tree cultivars; and production, trade, export and import of forest tree cultivars.
Article 4 provides for the rules for management of forest tree cultivars, including: 1. Strictly carry out chain-based management of cultivars of major forest trees and encourage such management for other forest tree cultivars to ensure origin tracing and cultivar quality improvement. 2. Forest tree cultivar rights of organizations and individuals shall be protected in compliance with regulations of law on intellectual property. 3. Organizations and individuals shall take responsibility for quality of forest tree cultivars researched, selected, created, produced and traded as per the law. 4. Encourage private sector involvement in activities concerning forest tree cultivars. 5. Apply science and technology in research, selection, creation, production, preservation and management of forest tree cultivars. Vietnamese Academy of Forest Sciences shall establish forest tree cultivar genebanks nationwide; organizations and individuals in charge of genetic resource conservation shall establish forest tree cultivar genebanks according to their respective needs and conditions (art.8).
Forest tree cultivars included in list of endangered, rare and precious species of forest flora and appendixes of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) shall be exported in accordance with regulations of law on management of endangered, rare and precious species of forest flora and observation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) (art.24-1). An application for permit for forest tree cultivar export includes documents prescribed in art.24-4.