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Olena Gulac, Oksana Marchenko, Nataliia Kapitanenko, Yurii Kuris y Roman Oleksenko
State environmental policy on the issue of legal regulation of re safety in the forests of Ukraine
The main components of solving the problem of legislative activity in
the forest industry in general, which will directly aect the eectiveness
of re safety in the forests of Ukraine are: legal (adoption of forest policy,
development strategies, prioritization of legislative work); organizational
(short-term and long-term planning, forecasting the consequences of the
adoption of bills, professional examination of submitted bills, ensuring the
evaluation of the eectiveness of their adoption, coordination of legislative
work of parliament and government); economic (nancial and economic
support of the legislative capacity of central executive bodies, expert groups
on a contractual basis, sta incentives, etc.) (Storchous, 2013).
We must pay attention to the fact that the forest is a natural resource of
the nation, which, rst of all, having a long period of restoration (about 150
years) should be used to ensure environmental safety and the functioning of
the environment as a whole. The priority of economic and economic needs
over environmental ones has already led to extremely serious consequences
in a number of territories of our state, violating the basic principles of
ecosystem and natural environment, causing irreparable damage to natural
areas and people living in them.
In particular, Article 2 of the Forest Code of Ukraine «Forest Relations»
conrms our position, noting that «forest relations - public relations
relating to the possession, use and disposal of forests and aimed at ensuring
the protection, reproduction and sustainable use of forest resources taking
into account environmental, economic , social and other interests of society
«(Law of Ukraine, 1994) and somewhat contradicts the interpretation of
the terms specied in Art. 1 of the Forest Code of Ukraine. Thus, in the
denitions of the main legal categories of the forest sector provided for in
Article 1 of the Forest Code of Ukraine, namely: «Forest plot» and «Forest
land plot»
Accordingly, in our opinion, in the current realities of our country’s low
forest cover and other negative trends in the forest sector, in particular,
due to rapid climate change, the activities of central executive bodies in
forest management should be coordinated by the Cabinet of Ministers.
natural resources, as the head of the central executive bodies, which is the
main in the formation and implementation of state policy in the eld of
environmental protection. It should also be borne in mind that the activities
of the State Forest Agency have long been coordinated and directed through
the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, and in 2010 the Ministry
of Agrarian Policy was entrusted with a signicant part of the Ministry of
Environment.
In particular, in accordance with current legislation, the Ministry of
Environment approves standards for the use of forest resources, estimated
felling (logging in the order of felling of the main use), approves forest
management materials, approves limits on the use of hunting animals,