Nikolay Nikolaev: “When information is distorted, objective decisions cannot be made»

On June 03, 2019, the fourth stage of the National forest forum started in Yakutia.

When discussing the state of the forest industry on one of the main thematic areas of the “Forest law in action” the Chairman of Committee of the state Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on natural resources, property and land relations Nikolay Nikolaev noted that it much depends on prompt reaction of the Ministry of natural resources and ecology of the Russian Federation and Federal Agency of a forestry from the point of view of legislative activity.

It is possible to consider ways to combat illegal logging, there is a problem of fixing the transportation of wood. According to the representative of the authorities, this issue has been discussed since 2016, but there is still no single system of accounting for the transportation of wood.

Mr. Nikolaev stressed that the problems of forest management in the country a decade ago.

“We have adopted changes to the legislation, which should have made better reporting of forest users. According to them, the report should be applied to the results of photo-video recording, remote sensing. But in most regions, although this was adopted in 2016, this measure does not work. This means that we still use reports that are accurate with a certain degree of probability. Meanwhile, when information is distorted, objective decisions cannot be made,” the Chairman of the state Duma Committee stated.

According to the press service of the Head of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)