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On 31 March the Armenian Government approved the draft on making amendments to RA Forest Code, which particularly allows to carry out site development in forest areas. The features and the right of the site development will be set by the governments. Another amendment to the code eliminated the concept of a forest ticket, which means that a physical or legal entity can gather non-wood forest products, barries, nuts, mushrooms, edible plants and herbs, as well as to locate bee hives without any permitting documents.
The Agriculture Ministry objected to the elimination of forest ticket concept from Forest Code substantiating it that without a forest ticket the unlimited and non-regulated use of non-wood forest products can result in causing damage to forest biodiversity, including red-listed rare plant and animal species, which are on the verge extinction. Nevertheless, the objection hasn't been accepted.
April 07, 2016 at 14:50