Chapter IV
FOREST INVENTORY
Article 25. Forest inventory tasks and implementation of forest inventory tasks
1. Forest inventory tasks shall include making forest inventories according to forest conditions, owners, uses and preparing forest management documentation.
2. Implementation of forest inventory tasks:
a) Vietnam Administration of Forestry requests the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development to issue forest inventory policies, formulates projects and undertakes forest inventory tasks according to laws;
b) All-level People’s Committees take charge of producing forest inventories within their respective jurisdiction;
c) Provincial-level People’s Committees approve and publicly disclose results of forest inventories at the provincial level;
d) Vietnam Administration of Forestry compiles the final report to submit to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to seek its approval and public disclosure of national forest inventories.
Article 26. Processes for taking forest inventories
1. Vietnam Administration of Forestry provides latest information about nationwide cyclic forest surveys in order for localities to make forest inventories.
2. Departments of Agriculture and Rural Development instruct forest owners to take inventories of forests under their jurisdiction.
3. Specialized forestry bodies carry out technical tasks, including:
a) Carry out the overmapping of commune-level forest status maps and land allocation maps over satellite imagery backgrounds for the purpose of producing maps intended for forest inventories;
b) Specifying locations and boundaries of forests of forest owners on maps intended for forest inventories;
c) Transferring results obtained from carrying out such tasks as provided in point b of clause 3 of this Article to forest owners.
4. Forest owners check forest conditions at the inventory-taking time and completing the Form No. 01 and 02 given in Appendix II hereto.
5. Forest Management Subdepartments at the district level cooperate with forest owners, local authorities and specialized forestry bodies in performing the following tasks:
a) Carrying out the field inspection to adjust locations, boundaries of and other information about inventory plots where necessary;
b) Adjusting information about attributes of each inventory plot on digital maps in case of any change;
c) Editing and perfecting commune-level forest inventory maps and preparing forest management documentation according to clause 1 and 2 of Article 31 herein.
6. Commune-level and district-level People’s Committees attest forest inventory maps and forest management documentation under the management of equivalent administrative bodies and send them to provincial-level Forest Management Departments.
7. Provincial-level Forest Management Departments cooperate with specialized bodies in performing the following tasks:
a) Integrating maps showing forest inventorying results under the management of lower-rank administrative bodies into the ones under the management of higher-rank administrative bodies;
b) Compiling forms and charts from forest inventorying results under the management of respective administrative bodies according to the Form No. 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09 and 10 of Appendix II hereto;
c) Keeping provincial-level forest management documentation according to clause 2 of Article 31 herein.
Article 27. Condition-based forest inventory
1. Making inventories of forest areas and stocks:
a) Natural and planted forests;
b) Earthen mountain forests, rocky mountain forests, flooded forests and dune forests;
c) Timber forests, bamboo forests, timber and bamboo mixed forests and palm forests.
2. Making inventories of non-forest areas:
a) Areas where regenerating trees are under protected cultivation and restoration to be turned into forest areas;
b) Areas which are cultivated with forest plants but fail to satisfy criteria for being qualified as forests;
c) Other areas currently in use for forest protection and development purposes.
Article 28. Owner-based forest inventory
1. Making inventories of forest stocks and areas under the management of forest owners as provided in Article 8 in the Law on Forestry.
2. Making inventories of forest areas and stocks under the management of commune-level People’s Committees.
Article 29. Purpose-based forest inventory
1. Making inventories of specialized forests, including national parks, natural reserves, species – biotopes conservation zones, protected landscapes, forest areas intended for scientific researches and experiments, national vegetation parks and national seed stands.
2. Making inventories of protection forests, including upstream protection forests, forests protecting water resources of residential communities, border protection forests, wind, sand and wave sheltering and sea reclamation forests.
3. Making inventories of production forests, including natural and planted forests.
Article 30. Forest inventorying achievements
1. Maps showing results obtained from forest inventorying efforts that use the reference system VN2000 and the mapping scale according to laws on maps:
a) Commune-level: the minimum scale of 1/10,000;
b) District-level: the scale of 1/50,000;
c) Provincial-level: the scale of 1/100,000;
d) Nationwide-level: the scale of 1/1,000,000;
dd) With respect to maps showing forest inventorying results of group-II forest owners, their scales must be commensurate with forest areas.
2. Charts and forms compiled from results of forest inventories under the relevant jurisdiction of administrative bodies shall be subject to point b of clause 7 of Article 26 herein.
Article 31. Preparation of forest management documentation
1. Forest management documentation of forest owners:
a) Forest management documentation of group-I forest owners shall be prepared according to the Form No. 11 of Appendix III hereto, including the land lot zoning extracts from commune-level maps showing forest inventorying results;
b) Forest management documentation of group-II forest owners shall be prepared according to the Form No. 12 of Appendix III hereto.
2. Forest management documentation requirements imposed on specific administrative units, including:
a) Forest management registers of commune-level administrative units shall be prepared according to the Form No. 13 of Appendix III hereto; of district-level administrative units shall be prepared according to the Form No. 14 of Appendix III hereto; of provincial-level administrative units shall be prepared according to the Form No. 15 of Appendix III hereto;
b) Maps showing forest inventorying results at different administrative units shall be subject to clause 1 of Article 30 herein;
c) Forms and charts showing forest inventorying results shall be subject to point b of clause 7 of Article 26 herein.
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