Law on Forest Protection and Development.

This Law provides for the management, protection, development and use of forests and rights and obligations of forest owners.
The Law consists of 88 articles divided into 8 Chapters: General provisions (I); The State's rights regarding forest protection and development (II); Forest Protection (III); Forest development and use (IV); Rights and obligations of forest owners (V); Forest rangers (VI); Settlement of disputes over, and handling of law violations on, forest protection and development (VII); Implementation provisions (VIII). Chapter II deals with the following matters: Principles for elaboration and contents of forest protection and development planning and plans; Forest assignment, lease and recovery, change of forest use purpose; assignment of forests to village population communities and their rights and obligations; registration of forest use rights, ownership rights over planted production forests, forest statistics and inventory monitoring of forest resource developments; and forest prices. Forests are classified into: protection forests, used mainly to protect water sources and land and contributing to environmental protection; special-use forests (national parks, natural conservation zones, etc); production forests, used mainly for production of timber and non-timber forest products (see Chapter IV). Forest rangers, assisting the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, exercise the State management over forests ensuring the observance of forest protection and development legislation.