The Ministry discussed the results of law enforcement practice in the field of federal state forest supervision for the 2nd quarter of 2020
Today, the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan held a public discussion of the results of law enforcement practice in the field of federal state forest supervision (forest protection) for the 2nd quarter of 2020. The event was held in a conference mode on the basis of the Zoom platform in order to clarify typical and massive violations of mandatory requirements of regulatory legal acts.
The meeting was attended by the First Deputy Minister of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan Ilgizar Zaripov, heads of structural divisions of the Ministry, head-foresters of forest districts, directors of forestry enterprises, etc.
Head of the State Control and Supervision Department of the Ministry Airat Akhmerov and Head of the Forest Reproduction and Afforestation Department Timur Galiyev made reports at the event.
During his speech, Airat Akhmerov spoke about the results of implementation of the federal state forest supervision on the lands of the forest fund of the Republic of Tatarstan for the first half of this year. Thus, during this period, state forest inspectors carried out 10.3 thousand control and supervisory measures and revealed 150 violations of forest legislation. The most frequent offenses were violations of sanitary and fire safety rules in forests.
“In just 6 months, 481 administrative cases were initiated, 230 decisions were issued on the appointment of an administrative penalty in the form of a fine for a total of more than 1 million rubles”, Airat Akhmerov said.
According to him, in the period from June 15 to July 15, “Lesovoz” operational and preventive measure was held in the Republic of Tatarstan. As part of the operation, 222 raids were carried out, in which 222 state forest inspectors and 126 employees of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tatarstan took part. 332 vehicles loaded with timber were checked, 2 administrative cases were initiated under part 5 of article 8.28.1 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation for the transportation of timber without an accompanying document drawn up in accordance with the forest legislation.
“Also, during the year, the employees of the State Control and Supervision Department of the Ministry are working with applications and appeals of citizens containing information about the violation of mandatory requirements, harm or threat of harm to legally protected values, added Airat Akhmerov. - Citizens' appeals are received by the Ministry through the website, “helpline”, e-mail, post of Russia, GIS “People's Control”, the system of the Federal Forestry Agency “Take care of the forest”, as well as through other control and supervisory bodies and authorities according to their competence”.
As of July 1 of this year the specialists of the department considered 116 appeals of citizens and legal entities on the facts of violation of requirements of forestry legislation. The main topics of the appeals were violation of the rules of sanitary safety in forests (unauthorized garbage dumps), felling of forest plantations, etc.
Timur Galiyev dwelled on the requirements of the Federal Law No. 212-FZ of July 19, 2018 “On Amendments to the Forest Code of the Russian Federation and certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation in terms of improving forest reproduction and afforestation”. He recalled that this law entered into force on January 1, 2019.
“In accordance with it, tenants using forest plots for the construction of linear facilities, geology and mining, construction of hydraulic structures and woodworking enterprises must carry out compensatory reforestation and afforestation, said Timur Galiyev. - The work must be carried out on the area equal to the area of cut down forest stands within one year after the felling of forest stands”.
The Government of the Russian Federation, by Resolution No. 566 of July 05, 2019, approved the Rules for the performance of work on reforestation or afforestation by persons using forests in accordance with Articles 43-46 of the Forest Code of the Russian Federation, and persons who have applied for or an application to change the designated purpose of a forest area.
“Work on reforestation or afforestation is carried out by forest users on the basis of an application and a decision taken by the executive authority. The approved application form is posted on the website of the Ministry, said Timur Galiyev. - The work is carried out in accordance with afforestation project or a reforestation project, which, in turn, are developed on the basis of Articles 89.1 and 89.2 of the Forest Code of the Russian Federation. Completed work on reforestation or afforestation is accepted by the state authority of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation on the basis of the submitted report on forest reproduction and afforestation one year after the work. Acceptance of works is carried out exclusively in the autumn period”.
To date, the total area of selected plots for work on the territory of the forest fund is 101 hectares, on the lands of settlements - 175 hectares. The necessary information indicating the addresses of the sites is posted on the website of the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Timur Galiyev also informed about the draft federal law on increasing the period of compensatory reforestation from 1 year to 3 years and measures of administrative responsibility for non-performance of work on compensatory reforestation.
At the end of the meeting, a discussion and exchange of views took place on results of law enforcement practice in the field of federal state forest supervision and possibilities of increasing its efficiency.