Rosleshoz, together with the regional agencies, to address the issue of calculating forest area lease payments based on the actual amount of timber harvested

The corresponding instruction was given by Alexander Kozlov, Head of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, during a meeting of the committee of the Federation Council for the development of the forest sector held in Vologda. Rosleshoz was instructed to elaborate new approaches to setting fee rates together with regional forestry authorities. It is planned to define a mechanism for calculating lease payments based on the actual amount of timber harvested.

The minister also supported the proposal of the Arkhangelsk region to introduce a moratorium on the termination of lease agreements with conscientious forest users. Rosleshoz will elaborate criteria and conditions for pre-trial consideration of such cases, which will support harvesting enterprises interested in maintaining their operations and saving jobs at enterprises. As Ivan Sovetnikov, Head of Rosleskhoz, commented, the agency is consistently and gradually working to lower administrative barriers in the industry.

“As for the measures to support forest users, we are currently cooperating with the Federal Customs Service to switch to forming customs declarations automatically, without the participation of employees. This will shorten the procedure time to 3 minutes and, as a result, will reduce work effort required,” said Ivan Sovetnikov.