VIỆN NGHIÊN CỨU LÂM SINH
Silviculture Research Institute (SRI)
Article 3.- Term interpretation
In this Law the following terms are construed as follows:
1. Forest means an ecological system consisting of the populations of forest fauna and flora, forest microorganisms, forestland and other environmental factors, of which timber trees and bamboo of all kinds or typical flora constitute the major components 1 with the forest canopy cover of 0.1 or more. Forests include planted forests and natural forests on production, protective and special-use forestland.
2. Forest canopy cover means the degree of coverage of forest canopy over forestland, which is indicated by the decimal fraction of the forestland covered by the forest canopy to the forestland acreage.
3. Forest development means the plantation of new forests, post-exploitation afforestation, the zoning off for forest regeneration and restoration, the improvement of poor forests and the application of other bio-forestrial techniques to increase forest areas, raise the value of bio-diversity, the forest product-supplying capacity, the protection capacity and other values of forests.
4. Forest owners mean organizations, households or individuals that are assigned or leased forests or land for afforestation and have their forest use rights as well as the ownership right over planted production forests recognized by the State; or that are transferred forests from other forest owners.
5. Ownership right over planted production forests means the forest owners’ right to possess, use and dispose of trees, animals and property associated with planted forests, which have been invested by forest owners during the forest-assignment or -lease terms for afforestation according to the provisions of forest protection and development legislation and other relevant law provisions.
6. Forest use rights mean the forest owners’ rights to exploit the utilities of, and enjoy yields as well as profits from, forests; to lease the forest use right via contracts in accordance with the provisions of forest protection and development legislation and civil legislation.
7. Registration of forest use rights and ownership right over planted production forests means the registration made by forest owners in order to have such rights recognized by competent State agencies.
8. Recognition of forest use rights and ownership right over planted production forests means the competent State agency recognizes such rights by way of inscribing them in land use right certificates or cadastral dossiers in order to establish the forest owners’ rights and obligations.
9. Forest use right value means the pecuniary value of forest use rights over a definite forest acreage during a certain forest use term.
10. Value of planted production forest means the pecuniary value of the ownership right over a definite acreage of planted production forest.
11. Forest price means the money amount calculated on a forest acreage unit, either prescribed by the State or formulated in the process of transactions on forest use rights or ownership right over planted production forests.
12. Forest use levy means the money amount payable by a forest owner for a certain forest acreage in cases where such owner is assigned forests by the State with collection of forest use levy.
13. Village population community means all households and individuals living in the same village, hamlet or equivalent unit.
14. Endangered, precious and rare forest plant and animal species mean plant and animal species of special economic, scientific and environmental value, which exist in 2 small quantities in the nature or are threatened to extinction and which are on the lists of endangered, precious and rare forest plant and animal species subject to management and protection regime prescribed by the Government.
15. Buffer zone means the forest area, land area or water-surface land area bordering on a special-use forest that has the effect of preventing or reducing the encroachment upon that special-use forest.
16. Strictly-protected zones of special-use forests mean the areas subject to intact preservation, strict management and protection to oversee natural developments of the forests.
17. Ecological restoration zones of special-use forests mean the areas subject to strict management and protection for natural rehabilitation and regrowth of forests.
18. Service-administrative zones of special-use forests mean the areas used for construction of working offices and facilities for daily-life activities of special-use forest management boards, research and testing institutions, as well as tourism, recreation and entertainment facilities.
19. Forest products mean products exploited from forests, covering forest plants and animals and other forest organisms. Forest products include timbers and non-timber products.
20. Forest statistics means the cadastral dossier-based synthesization and assessment of the acreage and quality of assorted forests at the time of conducting the statistical work and of forest changes at the interval between two statistical times.
21. Forest inventory means the cadastral dossier-based and field synthesization and assessment of the acreage, reserves and quality of assorted forests at the time of inventory and of forest changes at the interval between two inventories.