What are tasks and power of provincial forest ranger organizations in Vietnam?

What are tasks and power of provincial forest ranger organizations in Vietnam? - image from internet

Pursuant to Article 4 of the Decree 01/2019/ND-CP (effective from 15/2/2019) on forest rangers and forest protection forces of forest owners, tasks and power of provincial forest ranger organizations in Vietnam are as follows:

1. Advising the manager of specialized department to help the head of provincial People’s Committees in performing the governmental management of forestry as follows:

a) Formulating programs, plans for forest protection and management, forest fire safety, ensuring the compliance with law on forestry.

b) Cooperating with other local agencies, organizations to protect vacant public forests;

b) Allocating, leasing, withdrawing, converting and repurposing forest in accordance with law.

2. Directing, guiding and examining the performance of forest management, protection and forest fire safety, prevention and control of violations and ensuring the implementation of law on forestry in managing areas as follows:

a) Formulating programs, plans for forest protection and management, forest fire safety, ensuring the compliance with law on forestry.

b) Inspecting the development of forest, stocktaking, allocating, leasing, withdrawing, converting and repurposing forest in accordance with law;

b) Managing and protecting forests, forming and implementing plans of forest owners on forest fire safety;

d) Taking actions against of violations of forest management, protection and exploitation; transporting, trading and storing forest products; verifying origins of forest products from forest product trading, processing, exporting and importing establishments;

dd) Examining and verifying the trading; processing, planting and raising of forest plants and animals in accordance with law;

3. Performing tasks of forest management, protection and forest fire safety, prevention and control of violations and ensuring the implementation of law on forestry in managing areas as follows:

a) Implementing legislative documents, programs, plans for forest management, protection, forest fire safety and ensuring the compliance with law on forestry within assigned scopes.

b) Cooperating with forest owners to implement methods of forest management, protection and forest fire safety and ensuring the compliance with law on forestry ; conserving natural resources, forest biodiversity in accordance with law;

c) Monitoring, forecasting and warning of forest fire; gathering forces and facilities to cooperate with forest owners and authorities in extinguishing fire; in necessary cases, advising the competent authorities to mobilize local forces and facilities for firefighting;

d) Forming specialized forces of forest fire safety; inspecting the safety on fire prevention and firefighting;

dd) Taking preventing measures and ensuring the compliance with law on forestry; handling administrative violations and applying measures to prevent such violations; initiating prosecution and investigation into violations related to forestry in accordance with law.

e) Disseminating, educating on law on forestry;

g) Provide professional training for forest rangers and forest protection forces of forest owners;

h) Managing and using issued weapons, combat gear, uniforms, facilities and professional equipment in according with law.

i) Periodically and on-demand reporting to competent authorities.

4. Performing other tasks as assigned by law and competent authorities.

Above are tasks and power of provincial forest ranger organizations in Vietnam. Please refer to the Decree 01/2019/ND-CP for further information.

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