Tag: forest areas

Rosleskhoz: a forest area lease contract may be terminated prematurely through a court ruling

Elena Borodavkina, Head of Legal Support and Forest Use Administration at the Federal Forestry Agency (Rosleskhoz), explained that Federal Law dated 29.12.2022 No. 600-FZ “On introducing changes in the Forest Code of the Russian Federation”, which was adopted...

Metsä Group may surrender lease on forest areas in the Leningrad Region

Metsä Forest Podporozhye, a timber harvesting company that is part of Metsä Group (Finland), is planning to terminate employment contracts with all of its workers by mutual consent of the parties by October 2023, as reported by Novy...

Harvesting enterprises from the Nizhny Novgorod Region will be granted a deferral of rent payments for forest areas

The Government of the Nizhny Novgorod Region approved the decree on deferring the rent payments for timber harvesting areas. The deferral applies to parts of the payments exceeding the minimum rent amount. This respite is provided for up...

Vladimir Putin proposed to grant enterprises a deferment on forest area lease payments for unharvested timber

At the meeting on the development of the timber industry, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to grant enterprises a deferment on forest area lease payments for unharvested timber. “The amount of timber harvested has declined, people pay lease...

Svetlogorsk Pulp and Paper Mill intends to stop using a considerable share of its leased forest fund

The Novy Prospect publication referencing the Committee for Natural Resources of the Leningrad Region reports that Svetlogorsk Pulp and Paper Mill plans to give up some of its leased forest areas. The company has lease contracts for 7...

In 2022, Rosleskhoz approved 18 applications for implementation of priority investment projects in the forest sector

In November and December 2022, the Federal Forestry Agency (Rosleskhoz) approved 4 applications, i.e., from Volga JSC (Nizhny Novgorod Region), Promtech-Invest (Komi), Starwood, and Angara-Timberline (Irkutsk Region), with the total AAC of 3.4 million m³. Volga JSC: upgrading...

21 timber companies of the Krasnoyarsk region benefited from state support measures in 2022

In particular, companies were granted a deferral for forest area lease payments to be paid to the regional treasury as provided for by a law “On state support of timber enterprises of the Krasnoyarsk region” adopted in June...

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...

Rosleshoz authorized to provide forest areas for priority investment projects

On December 29, 2022, the President of Russia signed a law on authorizing Rosleshoz (the Federal Agency for Forestry) to provide forest areas for lease in the framework of the implementation of priority investment projects. According to the...

Opora Russia and Russian Forest proposed to defer lease payments for forest areas in the Irkutsk region

Opora Russia, a business association, and Russian Forest National Association of Timber Industry recommended that the government of the Irkutsk region consider the possibility of introducing a regional moratorium on the termination of forest area lease agreements until...

Federal Forestry Agency approved of the allocation of forest areas for Vyatsky Plywood Mill and Kondopoga Pulp and Paper Mill

In Q2 2022, Federal Forestry Agency (Rosleskhoz) approved of two applications for the implementation of priority investment projects in the forest sector. The Agency reviews and approves applications that concern providing investment projects with timber supply areas and...

Russian Ministry of Natural Resources proposed assigning forest areas for priority investment projects at the federal level

The Ministry of Natural Resources declared that it developed a draft bill under which the authority of providing forest areas for timber harvesting within the implementation of priority investment projects shall be transferred to the federal level, as...