Foresters and huntsmen are to exchange powers – Rosleskhoz offers to mutually complement the powers of environmental structures

On November 22, 2016, during the discussion of forestry and the protection of forests issues in the framework of the “Forum of Actions” of the All-Russia People’s Front, the activists of the All-Russia People’s Front raised the problem of insufficient forest protection inspectors, inspectors of the Hunting Supervisory Service and Rosprirodnadzor. Also, a proposal was made to give them crisscross powers to record and suppress offenses. The respective proposals to complement the powers were prepared by the Federal Forestry Agency.

“Going through this situation in detail together with the experts, we offer to confer common powers for the protection of nature on the inspectors of forest supervision, hunting supervision, and fishery supervision, and this will allow increasing the number of state environmental inspectors painless for the budget and improving efficiency on the environmental protection,” said the coordinator of the regional public monitoring group of the All-Russia People’s Front on the problems of ecology and protection of forest in the Irkutsk Region Sergey Apanovich addressing to the Russian President.

“I fully agree, it is necessary to do so, and I’m ready to support,” gave approval to the proposal of the activists of the All-Russia People’s Front Vladimir Putin.

Currently, the situation has come about that at the same time the officials of various agencies and departments whose responsibilities include the implementation of a particular type of supervision carry out their mission in the forest.

“In this situation, the deciding factor is that the number of employees engaged in each of the oversight functions is not enough. As part of the supervisory functions optimization it is proposed to entrust the state forest inspectors with powers to draw up the reports on administrative offenses in the field of protection, control and regulation of use of wildlife resources and their habitats, and the state hunting inspectors with powers to draw up the reports on administrative offenses in the field of forest relations.

Moreover, this proposal can be implemented within the framework of the existing legislation, in regions – by the decision of the governors, and in respect of the employees of federal agencies – by the amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation. This model has already been adopted and implemented in Smolensk, Orenburg, Penza, Ulyanovsk, Murmansk, Pskov, Kaliningrad, Sakhalin regions, and in the Republic of Mordovia ,“ said the Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation – the Head of the Federal Forestry Agency Ivan Valentik.