USAIS improvement was discussed in Rosleskhoz

On January 21, 2017 in the Federal Forestry Agency a meeting on the theme “On improvement of USAIS for recording of wood and transactions therewith in 2016 and priorities for 2017”chaired by the Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation Sergey Donskoy was held.

The Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation – the Head of the Federal Forestry Agency Ivan Valentik, Director of the Department of the Forest Resources State Policy and Regulation Andrey Gribennikov, the Advisor to the Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation Alexander Letin, the Deputies Head of Federal Forestry Agency Mikhail Klinov and Vladimir Shishov, the Head of the Administrative Department and Legal Support Ivan Petukhov, the Head of Department for USAIS wood recording and transactions therewith data analysis of the Office for Information systems Alexey Bobretsov, the Deputy Director of Roslesinforg Alexey Isaev, the Chief Analyst of the Administration of Roslesinforg Alexander Mariev took part in the meeting.

The report “On improvement of USAIS for recording of wood and transactions therewith in 2016 and priorities for 2017” was presented by the Deputy Director of Roslesinforg Alexey Isaev.

“We consider the future of wood transactions recording together with the growth of technological progress in the industry. It involves the development of a system of valuable wood species labeling and extending the list of types of wood covered by the industry-specific laws in the close integration with USAIS development,” said the Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation – the Head of the Federal Forestry Agency Ivan Valentik.

The Deputy Director of Roslesinforg Alexey Isaev has demonstrated the functionality of USAIS for wood and transactions therewith recording improved in 2016.

In 2016, under Article 8.28.1 of the Russian Code of Administrative Offences for failure to submit or late submission of the declaration on wood transactions, as well as for knowingly fraudulent statement in the declaration on wood transactions 3707 administrative cases have been filed. Under the administrative cases fines in the amount of 18.1 million rubles have been imposed.

In USAIS for recording of wood and transactions therewith includes information on 537 thousand transactions concerning purchase and sale of wood. Every day more than a thousand declarations on wood transactions is recorded in the USAIS.

As of the beginning of 2017, 35,700 record entries for legal entities and individual entrepreneurs, 7,600 record entries for the Russian Federation constituents and forestries, 1,800 record entries for the employees of the Federal Customs Service, over a thousand record entries for the Russian Interior Ministry, and  more than 760 record entries for the Federal Tax Service have been filed.

The system contains more than 3.5 million of legal documents – 145 thousand of lease contracts, 2.1 million of purchase contracts, 240 thousand forest declarations, more than 1 million reports on the use of forests.

To export from the Russian Federation the information about the breed, assortment and volume of 760,500 individually marked logs of oak, beech and ash is entered into the USAIS for wood and transactions therewith recording.

In 2016 the tools to ensure the reliability of the data entered and identification of users are introduced into the USAIS; works to integrate information systems of state authorities of the Russian Federation constituents, entrepreneurs, Federal Customs Service of Russia and the Russian Interior Ministry are performed. The function to trace timber supply chains allowing tracing the sources of wood (harvesting, purchase) and signs of delinquency has been implemented. Also, a test version of analytics module was introduced.

Following the meeting, it was decided to further develop the analytical capacity of USAIS, to create module of geoanalytics, to trace risk transactions and other instruments to detect violations and improve search modules. It is required to continue work to formalize the rules on entry in the USAIS for recording of wood and transactions therewith 24 types of products of primary timber sawing. The interdepartmental integration remains a priority for 2017 as well.

“The Unified State Automated Information System for recording wood and transactions therewith is a powerful tool that combines a variety of data about the title documents for timber harvesting and timber transactions, about all contractors involved in the process. USAIS for wood recording of Rosleskhoz is very interesting and useful for subcontractors to perform their tasks, especially the Russian Interior Ministry, Federal Customs Service of Russia, Federal Tax Service of Russia, Federal Bailiff Service of Russia,” said the Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation Sergey Donskoy.