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“The forest sector in Armenia is entirely unclear and is subject to regulation,” said Arthur Grigoryan, dismissed Head of Environmental and Mining Inspection Body in the course of his public report. One of the problems needing regulations is the procedure of determining felling spots, which should be carried out based on forest planning projects. Under Arthur Grigoryan, all the term of forest planning projects in all the forestry enterprises in “ArmForest” SCNO have been completed. “Forest planning projects are carried out for a term of 10 years. We have carried out an inquiry to Nature Protection Ministry to find out whether there are forest planning projects in some branches or all of them have been completed. According to the initial information, all of them have been completed. There is a professional committee which should provide a conclusion where and how much felling spot should be provided. This condition is very convenient when there is no forest planning plan, which is a serious and publicly available document, but there is a committee, which makes a decision whether or not to permit tree felling in this area. When the inspection checks and see that this tree has been felled down legally, there is no opportunity to assess whether this tree should have been subject to felling according to the law,” Arthur Grigoryan said, “The second problem is that the salary of “ArmForest” SNCO is formed exclusively from timber and it turns out the more felling spots are provided the more salaries will be provided. This system is entirely unclear from A to Z.”
February 22, 2019 at 13:51