Chương VI Nghị định 156/2018/NĐ-CP: Chính sách đầu tư bảo vệ và phát triển rừng

Chapter VI

INVESTEMENT POLICIES ON FOREST PROTECTION AND DEVELOPMENT

Article 87. Investment policies

The State shall provide funding for investment in the following activities:

1. Protection and development of reserve forests and protection forests, including:

a) Management performed by forest management boards;

b) Forestation, forest nurture and protection and localizing for forest regeneration;

c) Stocktaking and monitoring of development of forest resources and biodiversity; forest stocktaking and inspection and announcement of forest condition in reality;

d) Management of forestry information and forest database;

dd) Collection of forest animal and plant specimen;

e) Scientific research, training and development of forestry manpower and forest extension;

g) Dissemination and education of law provisions on forest protection and development;

h) Inspection, prevention, control and handling of violations related to forest protection and development;

i) Preparation and implementation of sustainable forest management plans;

k) Forest allocation and forest boundary marking.

2. Protection and rescue of endangered and rare forest plants and animals, including

a) Monitoring, surveillance and rescue of endangered and rare forest plants and animals;

b) Purchase of equipment used for monitoring, rescue and protection of endangered and rare forest plants and animals;

c) Nurture of endangered and rare forest plants and animals

3. Research, application of scientific research results, technology development and training of human resources for state management in forestry

a) Application of high technology, advanced technology and new technology in inspection, stocktaking and monitoring of forest development; forest fire safety; prevention and elimination of organisms harmful to forests; selection and propagation of timber varieties and non-timber forest product varieties and forest restoration and improvement of natural forest quality;

b) Study and conservation of forest ecosystems, forest valuation and determination of forest environmental service value;

c) Study on methods for biodiversity conservation for forest ecosystems and dealing with climate change;

d) Establishment and completion of the system of standards, regulations and technical guidelines on forestry

4. Establishment of development research zones and hi-tech zone

a) Propagation of plant varieties by tissue culture and embryo technology; development of new varieties by transformation technology, genetic mutation technology, cell technology and molecular genetics technology;

b) Study, development and application of mechanization, automation, bio-technology, use of new materials and saving of energy in production of young seedling at industrial level, forestation and forest nurture;

c) Study and application of remote sensing technology, information technology and bio-technology in management and protection of forest resources;

dd) Study and application of high technology in logging and forest product exploitation;

dd) Study, application and performance of high technology in processing and maintenance woods and forest products

5. Purchase of equipment and devices used for forest protection, forest fire danger alarm and monitoring and prevention and elimination of organisms harmful to forests.

6. Construction, maintenance, improvement and reform of infrastructure serving protection and development of reserve forests and protection forests, including

a) Traffic route running from the existing road to the office of the forest management board; forestry route including roads for exporting/transporting forest products within the boundaries of the forest management board and patrolling roads for forest protection;

b) Working office and houses for forest officers on service, forest ranger stations, rescue centers combined with wild animal grazing; environmental training centers combined with guest house; forest plant and animal museums and works serving scientific research;

c) Fire barriers, forest fire watch-towers, forest fire observation and forecast stations; canals, bridges, sewers, water tanks, dams, reservoirs and pipeline systems for forest fire safety;

d) Sign boards, warning sign boards and forest boundary markers;

dd) Warehouses, yards for gathering raw materials, fuels and instruments used for forest protection and development; ports for offices and forest ranger stations next to the river or the sea;

e) Independent power systems (solar power, wind power or small-scale hydroelectricity) in case the place in which the office of forest management board or forest ranger station is located is not supported by the national grid and information-communication system.

g) Works serving management and protection of other forests

7. National forestry planning, basic forestry investigation and development of forestry development programs or schemes

8. Investigation, stocktaking and monitoring forest development and forest database

9. Protection and development of natural production forests during forest closing

10. Maintenance and development of national forest nurseries and national botanic gardens according to plans approved by the competent authority.

11. Entities regulated by investment policies, investment rates and investment procedures shall be specified by the Government for each period upon consideration of the funding balancing capacity and socio-economic development of the country.

Article 88. Investment assistance policies

The State shall provide assistance in investment in the following activities:

1. Transfer of high technology, advanced technology, new technology, forest extension and issuance of certificates of sustainable forest management, including

a) Application of high technology, advanced technology and modern technology in intensive cultivation of forest for wood provision, growth of native plants and multi-type forests; modernization of producing process of forestry plant varieties, planting, nurture, protection and exploitation of forests; exploitation, transport, processing and maintenance of forest products and supporting industry in forest product processing;

b) Study on renovation of value chain-based forest production in connection with sustainable forest development and development of combined forestry-agriculture-fishing production;

c) Technology transfer and application of forestry research results in forest production, trading and management;

d) Training, experiment, transfer and operation of high technology, advanced technology, modern technology and forest extension;

dd) Preparation and implementation of sustainable forest management plans and issuance of certificates of production forests

2. Development of infrastructure in conjunction with investment in development and trading in production forests based upon the value chain

a) Establishment of centers for production of high-quality forest plant varieties and nursery gardens for such varieties;

b) Construction of forestry roads in production forest zones of scale of at least 500 ha;

c) Construction of forest protection works such as fire watch-towers, sign boards or fire barriers in production forest zones of scale of 500 ha and more;

d) Assistance in construction investment and provision of funding for factories processing woods in planted forests in areas with poor socio-economic condition.

3. Cooperation in protection and development of forests of ethnic minority and communities in combination with programs on socio-economic development and new rural development, including

a) Planting production forests and developing non-timber forest products for farmer households living in mountainous areas, bordering areas, islands and areas with poor socio-economic condition;

b) Protecting forests and localizing for forest regeneration with additional afforestation for natural production forests for farmer households living in mountainous areas, bordering areas, islands and areas with poor socio-economic condition;

c) Offering assistance in livelihood and improvement of standards of living of people residing in buffer zones of reserve forests and protection forests;

d) Granting loans from the Social Policy Bank to ethnic minority households and poor family households residing in areas with seriously poor socio-economic condition if they participate in planting of production forests under current regulations;

dd) Giving rice to ethnic minority households and poor family households living in seriously poor condition for socio-economic development for the purpose of changing their shifting cultivation customs and replacing fields by forests.

4. Training and development of manpower for forest owners in:

a) producing and trading plant varieties;

b) planting, nurturing and protecting forests;

c) exploiting, processing and trading forest products;

d) applying remote sensing technology and information technology in management, protection and monitoring of forest development;

dd) forest fire safety and preventing and eliminating organisms harmful to forests

5. Promotion of forestry market investment and development and forestry trade; extension and strengthening of international cooperation in forestry, including

a) Investment promotion, market development and product trade;

b) Extension and strengthening of international cooperation in forestry

6. Entities entitled to assistance policies, assistance rates and assistance procedures shall be specified by the Government in each period.

Article 89. Investment incentive policies

1. State investment incentive policies shall apply to activities specified in Clause 3 Article 94 of the Forestry Law.

2. Other investments shall be entitled to preferential treatment as per provisions of the Investment Law and the Law on Public Investment.

3. Entities regulated by incentive policies, principles and procedures for investment incentives shall comply with provisions of the Investment Law and Law on Public Investment.

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