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Logging
The felling activity includes:
Production of timber assortments such as logs, mine timber, poles, etc., production of firewood, gathering brushwood and forest waste for energy production.
Felling may be implemented as per the decision in the administrative procedure issued to a forest owner by the Slovenia Forest Service. Forest owners are not registered contractors of forest activities and are as such not obliged to fulfil the conditions regarding professional qualifications. For the implementation of forest felling the owners may hire a registered felling contractor who carries out the work pursuant to the regulations, guidelines and conditions determined by the decision issued in administrative procedure. The decision determines the maximum gross tree volume in m3 that may be felled during the validity of the decision. To ensure that only the selected trees are felled, the Slovenia Forest Service must mark the trees for potential felling. Felling and skidding time must be adjusted to the biological status of the forest. If possible, the felling is carried out outside the vegetation period or during the time when the wild animals are least disturbed. Unlike forest owners, felling contractors must fulfil the prescribed conditions. They must be registered to pursue the activity, have professionally qualified workers and prior to the first implementation of works lodge an application with the competent forestry inspection.
Regulations and conditions:
List of activities that are usually carried out as a craft
For activities listed on the List of activities usually carried out as a craft, business entities registering these activities must also enter in the register of crafts at the Chamber of Craft and Small Business of Slovenia (OZS) ex officio.
Applies to the following activities/services:
- charcoal burning in the forest in the traditional way
Source: Ministry of Economic Development and Technology
Applies for SKD:
- Logging A02.200
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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A forest lumberjack fells trees, limbs and cuts them in assortments. A forest lumberjack uses a chainsaw which differs in weight and power according to the tree dimensions.
A forest lumberjack requires a certificate on national vocational qualification. Male/female forest lumberjack.
In addition to adequate competence, a lumberjack must also pass the safety at work course and be equipped with suitable working equipment.
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A contractor of mechanical felling is an individual who carries out tree felling with machines. Types of machines used in mechanical felling are the following:
- a machine for tree felling;
- machines for limbing and production – processors;
- machines for limbing;
- machines for tree felling, limbing and production of assortments – harvesters.
They can be individual machines or in a form of tractor attachments. A contractor of mechanical felling must fulfil minimum conditions, i.e. must have adequate professional competence, adequate work experience, passed the safety at work course and suitable work and protection equipment.
Legal basis
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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
Cross-border/temporary provisions of activity
The provider that is established and meets the conditions for the pursuit of craft activities in the EU Member States, EEA or the Swiss Confederation, may occasionally carry out craft activity without establishment in the Republic of Slovenia. Before the first pursuit of an activity, the provider must lodge an application with the Chamber of Craft and Small Business of Slovenia.