The draft law «On regulation of relations in the timber trade in the territory of Primorye» a first reading of the deputies of the Legislative Assembly Committee on Food Policy and Environment.
The bill would force all participants turn «logs» to provide information about their buyers and sellers, the logging volumes, purchasing, processing and selling. All the data will be limited to an automated information system turnover «logs.» This will allow regulatory authorities to stop delivery on timber markets of unknown origin. It is also proposed to record «logs» on the collection points, storage and processing.
Illegal logging and illegal timber trade is a serious problem for the economy of Primorye. So far, there is no system in the region accounting of harvested wood, there is no mechanism of control over the activity points for receiving, processing and shipment of wood, which is one of the evidence of illegal logging, forest plantations.
According to the regional state fiscal institutions «Primorsk forest», operates openly in the region 293 points for receiving, processing and shipment of wood. At the same time, according to law enforcement and regulatory agencies, their number can be up to 500 units.
«At present we do not have an effective mechanism for monitoring the timber trade, — Said committee chairman Eugene Zotov. — Law will fix the entire chain, from production to the immediate implementation of the treated wood. Require the adoption of the bill in 2013 separated from the regional budget to 33 million . rubles. These funds will be used for the development and implementation of an automated information system turnover roundwood Primorye, as well as the technical equipment of the regulatory authorities. »
Also, during the committee meeting, lawmakers approved treatment Oryol Oblast Council of People\’s Deputies of the Chairman of the State Duma Sergei Naryshkin to the suggestion that the subjects of the Russian Federation law leave dead, dead, deadwood and burelomnoy timber without Harvesting individuals for their own use on the contract of sale. The changes proposed to the Forest Code.