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Strategic reforms of forestry sector in Serbia

Directorate for forests. Strategic reforms of forestry sector in Serbia. Belgrade, 10. 05. 20 1 1. Pr edrag Jovi ć & Dragan Nonić. Contents. Basic info : State of resources Policy and legislative reforms Organizational reforms International project activities.

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Strategic reforms of forestry sector in Serbia

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  1. Directorate for forests Strategic reforms offorestry sector in Serbia Belgrade, 10.05.2011 PredragJović & Dragan Nonić

  2. Contents Basic info: • State of resources • Policy and legislative reforms • Organizational reforms • International project activities Sustainable Forest Management and Nature Conservation in Serbia

  3. 1. Forest resources Serbia forest and forest land area 2.252.400 ha29.1% state forests 53,0 % private forests 47,0%

  4. Land use (according to NFI, 2009) Forest area:2.252.400 ha (29.1%) Volume: 362.5mil.m3 160.9 m3/ha Volume increment :9.079 mil.m3 4.0 m3/ha Number of trees:2.114.635.853trees 939 trees/ha

  5. Forests by species

  6. Stand origin

  7. Forest ownership

  8. Protected areas in Serbia 1.040 (547.176 ha) protected areas

  9. National parks in Serbia

  10. 2. Policy and legislative reforms Sequence of undertaken activities: • Forestry Development Strategy (2006) • Law on forests (2010) • National Forest Action Programme • Reform of public forest administration and service Sustainable Forest Management and Nature Conservation in Serbia

  11. Accumulated problems  and needs within the sector NEED for reforms Reforms and need in other sectors Taken and future obligations at international level

  12. Taken and future obligations at international level (the most important) Conventions EU STRATEGIES AND DIRECTIVES CITES convention Ramsar convention Strategy on the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources EU Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage EU  Sustainable Development Strategy CBD Forestry Action Plan EU Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution UN FCCC Directives of Council of Europe (Forest Focus) GLOBAL AND REGIONAL INICIATIVES UNFF Agenda 21 MCPFE NATURA 2000 FORESTRY SECTOR

  13. Participatory approach in development of strategy and legislations Local communities Other sectors NGO (mostly ecology NGOs) Wood industry Users of other forest goods and services STRATEGY Enterprises for state forest management (2) Private forest owners (cca 500,000) National parks (4) Other governmental and non- governmental organizations and individuals

  14. FAO TCP– work on participation in several phases I phase – training of trainers for the use of participatory tools and methods (14 people from MoAFW, FF, PE) II phase – workshops with private forest owners (special importance) and with other stakeholders, survey, interviews in households, public presentations and media appearance III phase–development of the draft of Forestry Development Strategy of the Republic of Serbia TOTAL 25 WORKSHOPS DURING STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT, PRESENTED FOR MORE THAN 400 PEOPLE AND INTERVIEWED MORE THAN 350 PEOPLE IV phase – repeated check of documents in public (5 workshops) ADOPTION in 2006

  15. ROLE OF THE STATE IN DEVELOPMENT OF THE FORESTRY SECTOR (preservation and improvement  of forests and development of forestry as industry) ROLE OF THE SECTOR IN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, PRESERVATION, IMPROVEMENT AND CONSERVATION OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURE INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RELATIOINS STATUS AND CARE FOR FORESTS (state and private) INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL COOPERATION STATUS AND CARE FOR GAME WOOD INDUSTRY AND PRODUCTS MARKET EDUCATION AND TRAINING RESEARCH Goals ...(1) FORESTRY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

  16. Sectoral planning • Investments in sector • Sector coordination • Reform of institutions • Forestry legislation • International and regional cooperation • Monitoring and evaluation of sector Support to implementation... (2) STRATEGIJA RAZVOJA ŠUMARSTVA

  17. Strategic framework STRATEGY REQUIREMENTS IN RELATION TO LEGAL SOLUTIONS: • sustainable forest management; • establishing mechanisms for the participation of stakeholdersin forestry development; • setting the framework forcoordination and planningin the sector; • defining roles and responsibilities of institutions and stakeholders in the forestry sector and establishing of clear relations between the State and enterprises for state forest management; • establishing of real and functional system of financing in forestry; • defining the optimal model of organization of state forest service for forest management; • compliance with ratified international conventions and protocols in the field of forestry and EU legal order (AcquisCommunautaire). FORESTRY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

  18. Legal framework Constitution of the RS (2006) Undertaken international obligations (global and regional level, acquis communautaire) National sectoral strategies LAW ON FORESTS • Laws: • Set of laws on environmental protection(2004) • PPS (1996) • Law on water (1991) • Law on agricultural land (2005) • Law on NP (1993) • Law on assets owned by RS(1995) • Company Law(2004) • Law on forests reproductive material (2004) • Law on public enterprises • Law on public agencies • Other laws

  19. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Ministry of environment and spatial planning Ministry of agriculture, trade, forestry and water management PUBLIC ENTERPRISES PESrbijašume PE Vojvodinašume 5 PE National parks SCIENTIFIC AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS Natural history Museum Institute for forestry Institute for lowlandforestry andenvironment Faculty of Forestry Faculty of Biology NGO AND ASOCIATIONS NGO in environment NGO in forestry PFOs associations 3. Organizational reforms of the sector

  20. Organization of forestry • PROBLEMS: • Overlapping of rights and responsibilities of organizations, • Inefficiency in the sustainable forest management implementation, • Conflict of interests in performing certain tasks of public interests, • Unsatisfactory treatment of private forests, • Restructuring of PEs, • Emergence of new “big” forest owners (churches, cooperatives, landowners) • ASSESIBLE SOLUTION: • Redefined roles andresponsibilities and relationships between organs and organizations in sector by clear functional division (executive, supervisory, support and ownership function), • Establishment of new institution with defined assignments, • Definition of rights and obligations ofstateforest users, • Support to private forest owners associating

  21. WHAT IS DONE SO FAR… • Forest policy (as sectoral strategy)–adopted in 2006; • Law on forests–adopted in 2010; • Law on game and hunting –adopted in 2010; • National forest inventory –done and published in 2009; • NFAP– prepared and soon in process of adoption; • Elaboration of Study of financing and study of forest valuing; • Restructuring of public enterprises – ongoing; • Organizational reform and capacity building of Directorate for forests; • Support to private forest owners associating – established 20 local and 1 national association; • Institutional capacity building–on different levels; • Intensive international cooperation – ongoing (MCPFE, UNFF & other)

  22. INPUTS • Naknada za korišćenje šuma i šumskog zemljišta u svojini države, • Naknada za obavljanje poslova sa javnim ovlašćenjima u privatnim šumama, • Naknada za šumsko zemljišta u svojini države dato u zakup, • Doprinos za podizanje novih šuma i unapređenje opšte-korisnih funkcija šuma, • Prihod ostvaren po osnovu otuđivanja državnih šuma i šumskog zemljišta, • Budžet, • Sredstva ostvarena oduzimanjem i prodajom nezakonito stečene koristi iz šume • Sredstva za iskrčenu šumu u postupku promene namene šuma, • Ostali izvori FUND FOR FORESTS SPECIAL PURPOSE ACCOUNT  FOR PROTECTION AND  IMPROVEMENT OFFOREST • REPRODUKCIJA ŠUMA, • PUTEVI, • RAZVOJNI RAD, • PROMOCIJA SFM • (na bazi definisane godišnje • podsticajne politike) OUTPUTS REŠENJA PREDLOŽENA NA OSNOVU REZULTATA STUDIJE FINANSIRANJA I VREDNOVANJA SEKTORA ŠUMARSTVA

  23. 4. International project activities FAO GCP/FRY/003/FIN "Forest Sector Development in Serbia“ (2006-2008)http://www.forestryprojectserbia.org Technical Cooperation Programme - TCP/YUG/2902: “Institutional Development and Capacity Building for the National Forest Programme” (2003-2004)http://www.forestserbia-fao.sr.gov.yu Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – UN FAO Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Directorate of Forests

  24. Government program of cooperation "Forest Sector Development in Serbia "(GCP/FRY/003/FIN) 2005-2008 UN FAO

  25. Projects which support the process… 2010.EFI – Finland: FOPER 2 2007. NFG (Norway) Program for forestry sector of Serbia (phase III) 2005.EFI – FinlandFOPER 1 2005. NFG (Norway) Program for forestry sector of Serbia (phase II) 2005.Obf Consulting (Austria) The development plan for the implementation of restructuring PE "Srbijašume" through participation 2005.FAO GCP/003/FIN “Development of forestry sector in Serbia” 2004-5. CESO (Kanada) technical assistance – PR Strategy of forestry sector;ISO standards for state administration; preparation for forest certification 2004. NFG (Norway) “Program for forestry sector of Serbia” (phase I) 2003. DIRECTORATE FOR FORESTS AND OSCE – Preparation of the law on forest reproductive material (in use from the beginning of 2005) 2003.FAO TCP/YUG/2902(A) “Institutional development and capacity building for NFP of Serbia”

  26. NFG PROJECTS 3. NFG (Norway) “Program for forestry sector of Serbia” (phases I-III) faza I: I NACIONALNA INVENTURA ŠUMA SRBIJE II IMPLEMENTACIJA GIS-a U ŠUMARSTVU III TEHNIČKA PODRŠKA REVITALIZACIJI DRVNE INDUSTRIJE U ISTOČNOJ SRBIJI (pilot) faza II: I NACIONALNA INVENTURA ŠUMA SRBIJA II RAZVOJ PRAKTIČNIH APLIKACIJA U OPERATIVNOM PLANIRANJU (I RAZVOJ GIS-A U OVU SVRHU) III JAČANJE KAPACITETA ZA UPOTREBU GIS TEHNOLOGIJE U ADMINISTRACIJI IV PLANIRANJE GAZDOVANJA ŠUMAMA (RAZVOJ COST-EFFICIENT METODA NA PILOT PODRUČJU) faza III: I DALJI RAZVOJ COST-EFFICIENT METODA II SERTIFIKACIJA ŠUMA

  27. National forest inventory of the Republic of Serbia(2004/07) Directorate for forests, Faculty of Forestry, NFG (Norway)

  28. OBF PROJECT 4. Obf Consulting (Austria) “The development plan for the implementation of restructuring PE "Srbijašume" through participation”

  29. predrag.jovic@minpolj.gov.rs Thank you for attention!!! Sustainable Forest Management and Nature Conservation in Serbia

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