Regulations on Federal Forestry Agency

GOVERNMENT OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION

 

RESOLUTION
on September 23, 2010, # 736

ON FEDERAL FORESTRY AGENCY

In accordance with Decrees of the President of the Russian Federation dated May 12, 2008, # 724 “Matters of system and structure of federal organs of executive power” and dated August 2010, # 1074 “On Federal Forestry Agency” the Government of the Russian Federation decrees to:

1. Approve attached:

Statute of Federal Forestry Agency;

Changes introduced into the acts of the Government of the Russian Federation.

2. Allow Federal Forestry Agency to have up to 6 Deputy Heads, including one Stats-Secretary – Deputy Head, as well as up to 12 Departments on basic directions of Agency’s activities.

3. Establish:

Maximum numbers for employees of Central office of Federal Forestry Agency in number of 420 persons (excluding security and service staff);

Maximum numbers for employees of territorial organs of Federal Forestry Agency are 1131 persons (excluding security and service staff).

4. Decide that Federal Forestry Agency up to January 1, 2012:

Conducts state account of forest ranges allotted to the lands of Forest Fund, if these forest ranges are within the boundaries of forest districts and park forests mentioned in Part 2, Article 83of Forest Code of the Russian Federation and if authorities, transferred by the Russian Federation to organs of state power of the subjects of the Russian Federation in accordance of Part 1, Article 83 of Forest Code of the Russian Federation were withdrawn in established order from organs of state power of the subjects of the Russian Federation;

Concords inclusion of land ranges belonging to lands of Forest Fund into boundaries of settlements, inclusion of land ranges from boundaries of settlements and their inclusion into composition of lands of Forest Fund, determination or change of kinds of allowed using land ranges of Forest Fund lands (excluding cases, when authorities on managing forest ranges were transferred in order, determined by forest legislation of the Russian Federation, to organs of state power of subject of the Russian Federation).

Considers and concords projects of boundaries for zones of planned placing of capital construction objects on lands of Forest Funds within the limits of its competence.

5. Realize forming of maximum numbers of employees noted in point 3 of this Resolution and financial support of expense obligations on their keeping in the following order:

а) Central office of Federal Forestry Agency:

150 posts – at the expense of maximum numbers of employees for Central office of Federal Forestry Agency and budget assignations, foreseen in federal budget for Agency on leadership and management in sphere of prescribed functions;

30 posts – at the expense of reducing maximum numbers of employees of Central office of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation on 30 posts and budget assignations, foreseen in federal budget for the Ministry on leadership and management in sphere of prescribed functions;

14 posts – at the expense of reducing maximum numbers of employees of Central office of Federal Service on Veterinary and Phytosanitary Inspection on 14 posts and budget assignations, foreseen in federal budget for the Service on leadership and management in sphere of prescribed functions;

226 posts – at the expense of reducing maximum numbers of employees of territorial organs of Federal Service on Veterinary and Phytosanitary Inspection on 226 posts and budget assignations, foreseen in federal budget for the Service on leadership and management in sphere of prescribed functions;

б)Territorial organs of Federal Forestry Agency:

457 posts – at the expense of maximum numbers of employees of territorial organs of Federal Forestry Agency and budget assignations, foreseen in federal budget for the Agency on leadership and management in sphere of prescribed functions;

674 posts – at the expense of reducing maximum numbers of employees of territorial organs of Federal Service on Veterinary and Phytosanitary Inspection on 674 posts and budget assignations, foreseen in federal budget for territorial organs of the Service on leadership and management in sphere of prescribed functions.

6. Federal Forestry Agency should submit in established order to the Government of the Russian Federation:

In three-month period - proposals on bringing acts of the Government of the Russian Federation into accord with this Regulation;

On agreement with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation - drafts of legal regulatory acts, which foresee entrusting the Agency with functions of control and supervision in the field of forest relations regarding forests located on lands of specially protected natural territories of federal importance.

7. To agree with proposal of Federal Forestry Agency about placing in established order the main part of its Central Office in Moscow, Pyatnitskaya str., 59/19, 61 and 3-rd Monetchikovsky by-street, 4/6.

8. Federal Agency on Management of State Property together with Federal Forestry Agency should consider question about appointing in established order office premises in Moscow to Federal Forestry Agency for additional placing employees of Central Office, as well as in other cities of the Russian Federation – for placing employees of territorial organs of Federal Forestry Agency and submit appropriate proposals to the Government of the Russian Federation.

9. To recognize forfeited power some resolutions of the Government of the Russian Federation according to the attached list.

 

Chairman of Government of
Russian Federation
V. PUTIN

 

Approved by
Resolution of the Government of the
Russian Federation
on September 23 2010, # 736

STATUS
OF FEDERAL FORESTRY AGENCY

I. General Provisions

1. Federal Forestry Agency (Rosleskhoz) is a federal organ of executive power, performing functions on:

Developing and implementing state policy and legal-normative regulation in the field of forest relations (excluding forests located on specially protected natural territories);

Controlling and supervising in the field of forest relations (excluding forests located on specially protected natural territories);

Providing state services and managing state property in the field of forest relations.

2. Guidance of activities of Federal Forestry Agency is carried out by the Government of the Russian Federation.

3. Federal Forestry Agency follows in its activities Constitution of the Russian Federation, federal constitutional laws, federal laws, acts of the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation, as well as given Status.

4. Federal Forestry Agency carries out its activities directly, through its territorial organs and institutions under its jurisdiction in cooperation with other federal organs of executive power, organs of executive power in subjects of the Russian Federation, organs of local self-government, public societies and other organizations.

 

II. Authorities

5. Federal Forestry Agency carries out the following authorities in established sphere of activities:

5.1. Submits to the Government of the Russian Federation draft federal laws, draft normative legal acts of the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation, and other documents, related to the established sphere of Agency’s activities, on which decision of the Government of the Russian Federation is need, as well as draft action plan and expected indicators of Agency’s activities;

5.2. Carries out in order and limits, determined by federal laws, acts of the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation, authorities of owner with regard to federal property, neededfor executingfunctions of federal organs of state power in determined by point 1 of this Status sphere of activities, including property, transferred to federal state unitary enterprises, federal sate institutions and state-owned enterprises within jurisdiction of the Agency.

5.3.Oт the grounds of and for carrying out Constitution of the Russian Federation, federal constitutional laws, federal laws, acts of the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation independently adopts the following legal normative acts:

5.3.1. Order of calculating annual prescribed cut;

5.3.2. Order of forest management for conducting works on geological surveys of entrails of the earth and developing deposits of minerals;

5.3.3. Order of organizing and carrying out forest pathological monitoring;

5.3.4. Order of using certified forest plants’ seeds of main forest tree species;

5.3.5. Order of filling in and submitting forest declaration and its form;

5.3.6. Order of conducting state or municipal expertise of forest development projects;

5.3.7. Rules of wood procurement;

5.3.8. Rules of gum procurement;

5.3.9. Rules of procuring and collecting non-wooden forest resources;

5.3.10. Rules of procuring eatable forest resources and collecting herbs;

5.3.11. Rules of forest management for conducting agricultural activities;

5.3.12. Rules of forest management for cultivating forest fruit, berry, ornamental and herb plants;

5.3.13. Rules of forest management for carrying out scientific-research and educational activities;

5.3.14. Rules of forest management for carrying out recreational activities;

5.3.15. Rules of forest management for constructing, reconstructing and exploiting lines of electro-transmission, communication lines, roads, pipe lines and other linear objects;

5.3.16. Rules of forest management for processing wood and other forest resources;

5.3.17. Rules of reforestation;

5.3.18. Rules of forest-growing;

5.3.19. Rules of forest-care;

5.3.20. Order of submitting report on forest management and its form;

5.3.21. Order of submitting report on forest protection and its form;

5.3.22. Order of submitting report on reforestation and forest-growing and its form;

5.3.23. Form of submitting reports on carrying out by subjects of the Russian Federation transferred to them authorities of the Russian federation in the field of forest relations and its content;

5.3.24. Order of developing forestry regulations, their content, periods of validity and order of up-dating;

5.3.25. Order of developing draft forest management project and its content;

5.3.26. Acts establishing specific features of protecting and regenerating forests; developing and executing preventive and rehabilitation measures in zoneswhere forests are subject to radioactive contamination; specific features of managing, protecting and regenerating forests located in water-protective zones; specific features ofmanaging, protecting and regenerating forests performing functions ofprotecting natural and other objects; specific features of managing, protecting and regenerating valuable forests; as well as specific features of managing, protecting and regenerating forests located on specially protected forest areas.

5.3.27. List of obligatory required information for state forest register and terms of its submitting;

5.3.28. Act determining forest zones and forest areas;

5.3.29. Legal normative acts on issues of executing transferred to the organs of state power of the subjects of the Russian Federation authorities of the Russian Federation in the field of forest relations, including administrative regulations of providing state services and performing state functions in the sphere of transferred authorities, as well as obligatory for executing methodological and directive materials on executing such authorities by organs of executive power of the subjects of the Russian Federation;

5.3.30. List of kinds (species) of trees and bushes prohibited for wood harvesting;

5.3.31. Rules of fire security in forests (including forests located on specially protected natural territories – by agreement with the Ministry of Natural Recourses and Ecology of the Russian Federation);

5.3.32. Rules of sanitary security in forests (including forests located on specially protected natural territories – by agreement with the Ministry of Natural recourse and Ecology of the Russian Federation);

5.3.33.Order of organizing and conducting aviation works on forest protection (including forests located on specially protected naturalterritories – by agreement with the Ministry of Natural Recourses and Ecology of the Russian Federation);

5.3.34. Oder of conducting forest regulation;

5.3.35. Order of preparing and concluding lease agreement of forest plot, belonging to state or municipal property, and form of approximate agreement on lease of forest plot;

5.3.36. Order of preparing and concluding sale and purchase agreement of forest stands located on lands belonging to state or municipal property, and form of approximate sale and purchase agreement of forest stands;

5.3.37. Order of preparing forest plan of the subject of the Russian Federation and its composition (including forests located on specially protected natural territories – by agreement with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian federation);

5.3.38. Oder of conducting state forest inventory (including forests located on specially protected natural territories – by agreement with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation);

5.3.39. Order of conducting state forest register (including forests located on specially protected natural territories – by agreement with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation);

5.3.40. Order of activities of wood wards in forest divisions and forest parks, mentioned in Part 2 Article 83 of Forest Code of the Russian Federation and/or in forest divisions and forest parks, where authorities in the forest relations were withdrawn in established order from organs of state power of the subjects of the Russian Federation;

5.3.41. Order of conducting select cuttings in forests performing protective functions for natural and other objects (including forests located on specially protected natural territories – by agreement with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation);

5.3.42. Oder of functioning seed production system of forest plants;

5.3.43. Order of seed production for separate categories of forest plants;

5.3.44. Order of collecting, preparing, storing and using seeds of forest plants;

5.3.45. Order of forming and using insurance seed funds of forest plants;

5.3.46. Order of realizing and transporting seeds of forest funds;

5.3.47. Standards of determining area of park zone and green zone, standards of organizing zone of active recreation and walking zone in forest park zone;

5.3.48. Act, determining content of application regarding transfer of lands of forest fund into other category of lands and list of attached documents;

5.3.49. Legal normative acts on other issues in established sphere of activities of the Agency, excluding issues, legal regulation of which in accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, federal constitutional laws, federal laws, acts of the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation is carried out exclusively by federal constitutional laws, federal laws, legal normative acts of the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation;

5.4. Accomplishes:

5.4.1. Determining cutting ages;

5.4.2. Considering in established order materials on transferring lands of forest fund or land plots of forest fund lands into lands of other (different) categories;

5.4.3. Considering draft schemes of territorial planning ofsubjects of the Russian Federation, рассмотрение проектов схем территориального планирования субъектов Российской Федерации, general plans of Moscow and Saint-Petersburg, schemes of territorial planning of municipal districts, general plans of settlements, general plans of city districts and drafting conclusions within the limits of its competence;

5.4.4. Attributing forests to valuable forests and allotting specially protected plots, determining and changing their boundaries, allotting merchantable and reserved forests, determining and changing their boundaries;

5.4.5. State forest inventory;

5.4.6. Summarizing documented information included into state forest register;

5.4.7. Organizing forest seed production;

5.4.8. Forming and storing federal seed fund of forest plants;

5.4.9.Establishing forest seed zoning;

5.4.10. Establishing permanent forest seed plots;

5.4.11. Seed control regarding seeds of forest plants;

5.4.12. Securing designing forest divisions and forest parks, as well as fixing on ground location of their boundaries, designing merchantable forests, reserved forests, valuable forests, specially protected forest plots and fixing on the ground location of their boundaries;

5.4.13. Coordinating structure of authorized organs of executive power of the subjects of the Russian Federation, performing transferred authorities of the Russian Federation in the field of forest relations, as well as appointing head of organ of executive power of corresponding subject of the Russian Federation for carrying out transferred to him authorities;

5.4.14. Drafting proposals on withdrawing from organs of state power of the subjects of the Russian Federation transferred authorities in the field of forest relations and submitting these proposals, in case of necessity, to the Government of the Russian Federation for decision;

5.4.15. Supervising legal regulation by organs of state power of subjects of the Russian Federation in the field of executing transferred authorities of the Russian Federation regarding forest relations (with right of sending obligatory for execution directions on abrogating legal normative acts of the subjects of the Russian Federation or changing them);

5.4.16. Control and supervision on executing by organs of state power ofsubjects of the Russian Federation authorities, transferred in accordance with Article 83 of Forest Code of the Russian Federation (with right of sending directions on eliminating revealed violations, as well as on making answerable for it officials performing duties on executing transferred authorities).

5.4.17. Control on spending means allocated for executing by organs of state power ofsubjects of the Russian Federation authorities in the field of forest relations, financed at the expense of subventions from federal budget, within the limits of its competence;

5.4.18. State fire supervision and state forest control and supervision on the lands of Forest Fund regarding forest divisions and forest parks, mentioned in Part 2, Article 83 of Forest Code of the Russian Federation; in forests located on lands of defense and security, and in cases, when authorities transferred by the Russian Federation to the organs of state power ofsubjects of the Russian Federation were withdrawn in established order from the organs of state power of the subjects of the Russian Federation in accordance with Part 1, Article 83 of Forest Code of the Russian Federation;

5.4.19. Functions on managing state property, providing state services in the field of forest relations established by Forest Code of the Russian Federation with regard to forest divisions and forest parks mentioned in Part 2, Article 83 of Forest Code of the Russian Federation, and/or in cases, when abovementioned authorities were withdrawn in established order from organs of state power of subjects of the Russian Federation;

5.4.20. Developing and approving forest plans of subjects of the Russian Federation in case, when execution of these authorities was not transferred to the organs of state power of subjects of the Russian Federation in accordance with Part 2, Article 83 of Forest Code of the Russian Federation;

5.4.21. Considering draft forest plan of subject of the Russian Federation and preparing conclusion regarding it;

5.4.22. Implementing federal for special purpose, departmental and other programs in established sphere of the Agency’s activities, drafting proposals on forming list of objects of capital construction for including into federal address investment programs;

5.4.23. Forming and using federal information recourses and information systems in established sphere of the Agency’s activities;

5.4.24. Adopting decisions on forming land (forest) plots from land (forest) plots, belonging to state property and located on territories of forest divisions and forest parks, mentioned in Part 2, Article 83 of Forest Code of the Russian Federation, and/or in cases, when these authorities were withdrawn in established order from organs of state power of subjects of the Russian Federation;

5.4.25. Coordinating applications for implementing investment projects in the field of forest development, excluding cases when executing authorities on leasing forest plots within the lands of Forest Fund, as well as authorities on organizing and conducting corresponding auctions were not transferred to organs of state power of subjects of the Russian Federation in accordance with Part 2, Article 83 of Forest Code of the Russian Federation;

5.5. Determining number of forest divisions and forest parks as well as establishing their boundaries;

5.6. Organizing and securing forest pathological monitoring in forests, located on lands of Forest Fund;

5.7. Executing economic analysis of activities of state unitary enterprises under its jurisdiction and approving economic indicators of their activities, as well as auditing financial activities and property management of enterprises under its jurisdiction;

5.8. Performing functions of state customer of federal for special purpose, scientific-technical and innovation programs and projects in established sphere of the Agency’s activities;

5.9. In established by legislation of the Russian Federation order places orders and concludes state contracts, as well as other civil-legal agreements for supplying goods, fulfilling works for state needs in established sphere of the Agency’s activities, including for satisfying own needs of the Agency;

5.10. Cooperating in established order with organs of state power of foreign countries and international organizations in established sphere of the Agency’s activities;

5.11. Carrying out reception of citizens and securing timely and full consideration of oral and written applications of citizens, adopting decisions on them and sending answers to applicants in term, established by legislation of the Russian Federation;

5.12. Securing within the frames of its authorities protection of data containing state secret;

5.13. Securing mobilization preparedness of the Agency, as well as control and coordination of activities of territorial organs and institutions under its jurisdiction regarding their mobilization preparedness;

5.14. Executing organization and conduct of civil defense at the Agency;

5.15. Organizing vocational training for employees of Central Office, territorial organs and organizations under its jurisdiction, as well as their re-training, improvement of skills and works on probation;

5.16. Carrying out in accordance with legislation of the Russian Federation works on completing, storing, accounting and using archives documents collected in the process of the Agency’s activities;

5.17. Performing functions of main manager and recipient of funds from federal budget allocated for maintaining the Agency and implementing functions it entrusted with;

5.18. Organizing congresses, conferences, seminars, exhibitions, and other measures in established sphere of the Agency’s activities;

5.19. Establishing in accordance with legislation of the Russian Federation in the field of education tasks (control numbers) for determining specialization and number of students for admitting to educational institutions of professional training, which are underjurisdiction of the Agency, at the expense of federal budget;

5.20. Procuring for executing within the limits of its competence measures of state forest control and supervision, special means, service and civil weapon, carrying out their accounting, storing and issuing in established order;

5.21. Performing other functions in established sphere of the Agency’s activities, if such functions are foreseen by federal laws and legal normative acts of the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation;

6. Federal Forestry Agency with the aim of implementing its authorities in established sphere of its activities has the right to:

6.1. Enquire and receive in established order information, needed for adopting decisions in established sphere of the Agency’s activities;

6.2. Conduct necessary investigations, tests, examinations, analyses, and evaluations, as well as scientific researches on issues included into established sphere of the Agency’s activities;

6.3. Control activities of territorial organs of the Agency and organizations under its jurisdiction;

6.4. Invite in established order for developing issues, included into sphere of the Agency’s activities, scientific and other organizations, scientists and specialists;

6.5. Develop and approve samples of uniform, decorations and distinguishing badges, service certificates, order of wearing uniform in accordance with legislation of the Russian Federation;

6.6. Found in established order mass media organs for publishing legal normative acts in established sphere of the Agency’s activities and official announcements, for placing other materials on issues, included into established sphere of the Agency’s activities;

6.7. Create coordinating and deliberative bodies (councils, commissions, groups, and colleges), including interdepartmental, in established sphere of the Agency’s activities;

6.8. Provide legal and physical entities with explanations on issues, included into established sphere of the Agency’s activities;

6.9. Create, re-organize and abolish in established order territorial organs of the Agency;

6.10. Apply in established sphere of the Agency’s activities, in order and cases prescribed by legislation of the Russian Federation, measures of restrictive, warning and preventive nature aimed at barringviolations by legal entities and citizens obligatory requirements in these sphere and/or liquidating consequences of such violations;

6.11. Execute within the limits of its competence conduct of cases on administrative transgressions in accordance with legislation of the Russian Federation;

6.12. Deliver materials on violations of forest legislation of the Russian Federation to organs of interior, procurator’s office and court, bring of suits in established by legislation of the Russia Federation order to court or arbitration on compensating damage caused to forests;

6.13. Suspend in accordance with federal laws development of forests within the limits of its authorities;

6.14. Issue obligatory for implementing directions on forming forest plots of Forest Fund’s lands and on submitting them for federal needs in order established by Forest Code of the Russian Federation;

7. Federal Forest Agency has no right to provide paid services in established sphere of its activities, except the cases determined by federal laws, decrees of the President of the Russian Federation and resolutions of the Government of the Russian Federation;

By executing legal normative regulation in established sphere of activities, the Agency has no right of introducing non-foreseen by federal constitutional laws, federal laws, acts of the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation functions and authorities and authorities for federal organs of state power, organs of state power of subjects of the Russian Federation, organs of local self-government, as well as has no right of establishing limitations on executing rights and freedoms of citizens, non-governmental commercial and non-commercial organizations, excluding cases when possibility of introducing such limitations by acts of authorized federal organs of executive power is directly foreseen by Constitution of the Russian Federation, federal constitutional laws, federal laws and issued on the basis and for Implementing Constitution of the Russian Federation, federal constitutional laws and federal laws acts of the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation.

 

III. Organization of Activities

8. Federal Forestry Agency is headed by its Head, appointed on this post and relieved of this post by the Government of the Russian Federation;

Head of the Agency bears personal responsibility for fulfilling functions, the Agency is entrusted with.

9. Head of Federal Forestry Agency has Deputy Heads, appointed on their posts and relieved of their posts by the Government of the Russian Federation;

Number of Deputy Heads of the Agency is determined by the Government of the Russian Federation..

10. Head of Federal Forestry Agency:

10.1. Distributes duties among his Deputy Heads;

10.2. Submits to the Government of the Russian Federation:

10.2.1. Draft Status of the Agency;

10.2.2. Proposals on maximum numbers and salary fund regarding employees of Agency’s Central Office and its territorial organs;

10.2.3. Proposals on appointing on the posts and relieving of the posts Deputy Heads of the Agency;

10.2.4. Annual action plan and indices of Agency’s activities, as well as report on its activities;

10.2.5. Draft legal normative acts and other documents, mentioned in sub-point 5.1 of this Status;

10.3. Approves statuses of Agency’s structural divisions, its territorial organs and charters of organizations under its jurisdiction, as well as set-up of locating territorial organs;

10.4. Appoints on post and relieves of post employees of Agency’s Central Office, as well as heads and deputy heads of Agency’s territorial organs;

10.5. Solves in accordance with legislation of the Russian Federation on Civil Service issues, connected with passing federal state civil service in the Agency;

10.6. Approves structure and list of regular establishment of the Agency within the limits determined by the Government of the Russian Federation, salary fund and numbers of employees, as well as estimate of expenses on its maintenance within the limits of approved for corresponding period budget assignments, foreseen by federal budget;

10.7. Approves numbers and salary fund for employees of territorial organs within the limits of indices, determined by the Government of the Russian Federation, as well as estimate of expenses on their maintenance within the limits of approved for corresponding period budget assignments, foreseen by federal budget;

10.8. Submits to the Finance Ministry of the Russian Federation proposals on forming draft federal budget in part, concerning financing the Agency’s activities, activities of its territorial organs as well as organizations under its jurisdiction;

10.9. Submits to the Government of the Russian Federation in established order proposals on creating, re-organizing and abolishing federal state enterprises and institutions witch are under its jurisdiction.

10.10. Charges with missions territorial organs of the Agency and controls their execution;

10.11. Annuls running counter legislation of the Russian Federation decisions of Agency’s territorial organs, if other order of annulling decisions is not established by federal law;

10.12. Puts forward in established order employees of Agency’s Central Office and its territorial organs, as well as other persons, carrying out activities in established sphere for awarding honorary titles and rewarding state decorations of the Russian Federation, Diploma of the President of the Russian Federation and for encouragement of them in form of announcing gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation;

10.13. Approves in established order departmental decorations, statuses of these decorations and their description, and rewards employees of Agency’s Central Office and its territorial organs, as well as other persons, carrying out activities in established sphere,with branch honorary badges;

10.14. Issues order of normative nature, and with regard to operative and other current issues of Agency’s activities – orders and directions of non-normative nature;

10.15. In established order appoints on the posts and relieves of the posts heads of organizations under his jurisdiction, concludes, changes and cancels labor agreements with above-mentioned managers;

10.16. Organizes activities of commission on observing requirements of service behavior of federal state employees and on regularizing conflicts of interest, as well as activities on preventing corruption and other violations of law;

11. Financing of expenses on maintaining Central Office of Federal Forestry Agency, its territorial organs and organizations under its jurisdiction is carried out at the expense of funds, foreseen by federal budget;

12. Federal Forestry Agency is a legal entity; it has its seal with picture of State Emblem of the Russian Federation and its name, other seals, stamps and forms of established pattern, as well as accounts, opened in accordance with legislation of the Russian Federation.

13. Location of Federal Forestry Agency is the city of Moscow.