RESPONSE TO REVIEW A.YU. FRANCUZOV TO ARTICLE “THE CONCEPT OF THE DRAFT FEDERAL LAW” FOREST CODE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION “

Yu.N. Gagarin 

Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Profsoyuznaya st. 84/32 bldg. 14, Moscow, 117997, Russia

^*E-mail: j.gagarin@list.ru

Received 22.09.2020 

Accepted 02.11.2020

The article discusses the issues of the economic organization of forestry and proposals for its transformation from the sphere of budgetary services to the branch of material production, based on the international practice of profitable forestry without its integration with the timber processing industry. We have given a brief description of the low investment attractiveness of forestry production due to its long-term nature, which requires a special source of funding, and also described the advantages of state forestry organizations in terms of state ownership of forests over private forest use, burdened with forest reproduction activities (forest lease). The paper presents the general provisions of the forest management model based on the licensed right to conduct forestry by legal entities and individual entrepreneurs in state forests.

Key words: Forestry, forest ownership, state forestry organizations, forestry license agreement.

REFERENCES

Gagarin Yu.N., Kontseptsiya proyekta federal’nogo zakona “Lesnoy kodeks Rossiyskoy Federatsii” (Concept of the draft federal law “Forest Code of the Russian Federation”), Voprosy lesnoy nauki, Vol. 3, No 3, 2020, pp. 1-45.

Francuzov A.Yu., Recenziya na stat’yu «Koncepciya proekta federal’nogo zakona «Lesnoj kodeks Rossijskoj Federacii», (Review to the article “The Concept of the draft Federal law “Forest code of the Russian Federation”), Voprosy lesnoy nauki, Vol. 3, No 3, 2020, pp. 1-28.