Regulations on Forest Management, 2006 PM Decision No. 186/2006/QD-TTg, 2006 (Viet Nam)

This Regulation provides for the management, protection, development and use of special-use forests, protection forests and production forests, including land areas with or without forests, which have been assigned, leased or planned by the State for forestry. It provides principles for forest management organization, stating that special-use forests, protection forests and production forests shall be managed, protected, developed and used in a sustainable manner, in line with the forest protection and development planning and plans. Special-use forests, protection forests and production forests shall have owners to manage, protect and use them. Moreover, the management of forests shall comply with the major use purposes of each kind of forest; and concurrently ensure the rational use of comprehensive values of forests, contributing to socio-economic development, environmental protection, biodiversity protection, as well as defense and security maintenance. 

Furthermore, the determination of management objectives and methods must be compatible with particularities of forest ecosystems in order to ensure the sustainable development of forests and forest ecosystems. 

Finally, every forest owner may be assigned or leased forests of different kinds provided that such owner manages forests of each kind strictly according to the regulation applicable to that kind. The regulations also contain provisions on the degrees of importance for protection of forests and forestry land, delimitation of forests boundaries, change of forest use purposes, forest protection and development, and regeneration of forests. 

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