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Cultivation and protection of forests
The activity of cultivation of forests includes cultivation works for restoration and care for young plants as well as the care for pole stands and necessary protection works (prevention and preventive-weeding measures in forest).
Cultivation and protection works are determined in the decision in the administrative procedure issued to a forest owner by the Slovenia Forest Service. The cultivation of forest may be carried out by a forest owner alone or with a help of his statutory heirs and their spouses and other natural persons in a form of neighbour-to-neighbour assistance. For this purpose a forest owner may hire contractors to carry out works determined in the decision.
Contractors of forest works must be registered and lodge an application with the competent forest inspection prior to the start of works.
A contractor must adequately introduce to work all persons who carry out:
- planting the seedlings of forest trees,
- protection against wildlife,
- less difficult harvesting,
- preparation of soil for natural insemination and
- undemanding works with hand tools.
Due to monitoring and strengthening of biotic balance in forests, a contractor provides the implementation of preventive protection works:
- in forests and on individual forest trees outside the settlements of the Slovenia Forest Service;
- on individual forest trees in the settlements these are carried out by the forest inspection.
Applies for SKD:
- Silviculture and other forestry activities A02.100
Conditions
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Applicants who wish to pursue this activity must register the business activity, and have the appropriate legal status.
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Before the first implementation of works in forest, the contractors must submit the competent forestry inspection the evidence on the professional qualification of workers and prove that they comply with the conditions related to the safety at work. On the basis of the application, the competent forestry inspection enters the contractor on the list of contractors of forest works.
Legal basis