Decree of the Ministry of Agriculture No. 32 / 1960 Coll.

Order on the purchase of raw wood and the exceptional supply of wood

Valid Effective from 05.04.1960
32
DECLARATION
Ministry of Agriculture
of 21 March 1960
on the purchase of raw wood and the exceptional supply of wood
The Ministry of Agriculture, in agreement with the participating central authorities and the authorities, provides, pursuant to Article 1 of Act No. 80 / 1948 Coll., which empowers the Minister of Agriculture to take action in agricultural production:

Část I

Purchase of raw wood
§ 1
Preliminary provisions
(1) In order to ensure the efficient use of all raw timber for the national economy, the purchase of raw wood shall be regulated in accordance with other provisions.
(2) Raw wood means:
(a) rough strains and unsorted equal wood;
(b) cuttings of coniferous and leafy all kinds,
(c) coniferous and leafy cane;
(d) flat coniferous and leafy wood (both utility and fuel),
(e) commercial does not break coniferous and leafy,
(f) tannery,
(g) Christmas trees and utility cages;
harvested in or out of forests
Purchase of raw wood from the forest
§ 2
(1) The exclusive purchase of raw timber (Paragraph 1 (2)) extracted in the forest and its supply to eligible customers is entrusted to the regional forest administration, unless the Ministry of Agriculture has authorised other organisations to do so.
(2) Regional forest administrations may, however, entrust forest owners (users) with the task of supplying Christmas trees and utility (decorative) cages directly to eligible customers.
§ 3
(1) The owners of the raw timber harvested in the forest shall be required to offer to purchase the harvested timber within 14 days of the extraction, except in the cases referred to in paragraph 2, the nearest forest plant of the relevant regional forest management (hereinafter referred to as the "forest plant '); the forest plant is obliged to redeem the wood offered and to this end agree with the owner of the raw wood on the place of purchase. If no agreement is reached, the management authority of the District National Committee shall determine the place of purchase.
(2) According to this decree, it does not buy:
(a) crude firewood retained by owners of (users) forests for their own use and the quantity of which is determined by the local national committee within the limits of the benefits provided for by the district national committee, *)
(b) the raw timber used by the single agricultural cooperatives which have forests in common management shall, for their own use, be retained in quantities and species, as allocated to them by the material supply plan.
(c) raw timber used in the quantity and species of the enterprises of the state socialist sector managing forests allocated by the plan of material technical supplies.
(3) The former which forest owners (users) may retain for their own use in accordance with paragraph 2 must be checked by the forest management authority.
Purchase of raw wood from trees growing outside the forest
§ 4
(1) In order to ensure timely and economical redemption, transport and processing of raw wood from trees growing outside the forest, the forest plant, in cooperation with the management authority of the local national committee, will take measures to ensure that the logging is carried out within a single period of time on the territory of the whole municipality. However, leafy trees and pine trees may be cut down only at a time of vegetation. The executive body of the local national committee shall ensure that there is no excessive or, where appropriate, inappropriate logging of trees growing outside the forest and thereby the nation's economic losses or distortion of landscape appearance.
(2) The owner of trees growing outside the forest shall notify, within 3 days of their discharging, the management authority of the local national committee where, and how much and what kind of timber he has extracted, and shall offer them for redemption to the nearest forest plant.
(3) Within 3 days of receipt of the notification referred to in paragraph 2, the management authority of the local national committee shall communicate the name of the owner of the timber to the forest plant in whose perimeter the harvested timber is located, its address, the place of production and the wood and the approximate quantity of timber harvested. The forest plant is obliged to redeem the harvested timber within 21 days of receiving the notification.
(4) The approximation and removal of purchased timber will be ensured by the forest plant in agreement with the owner of the timber under the applicable directives.
§ 5
Unitary agricultural cooperatives, state goods, state fisheries, local national committees and natural persons are entitled, in addition to the purchase price *) for wood from trees growing outside the forest, to have a forest plant for each plm without bark supplied by coniferous and leaf timber
1. Sold the same quantity of leafy wood or fuel wood or 50% of coniferous wood at wholesale prices, plus 15% of the turnover tax on the mill and 4% of the turnover tax on fuel wood, unless the customer is entitled to purchase such wood at wholesale price under the price tax rules; or
2. Issued a voucher for buying coniferous sawn wood in class II or lower at wholesale prices, plus 23% of the turnover tax, if the customer is not entitled to purchase sawn wood at wholesale price according to the tax rules. The voucher is issued as a delivery:
(a) special quality nut cuts for the same quantity as delivered;
(b) special quality cuts of all coniferous and other leafy trees per 75% of the quantity delivered,
(c) sawdust from all coniferous and leafy trees per 30% of the quantity delivered;
(d) the same coniferous and leafy timber per 20% of the quantity delivered.
§ 6
The former obtained by deforestation of trees growing outside the forest shall be used for commercial purposes. For fuel purposes, this wood may only be used if it shows the characteristics of the firewood according to the Czechoslovak state standard. * *)
§ 7
Record keeping
Forest plants are required to keep detailed records of all timber purchased and delivered as well as records of purchase vouchers pursuant to § 5 (2).
§ 8
Wage cut
(1) The cutting, peeling or cutting of cuts in the wage is prohibited. However, the Executive Authority of the District National Committee may authorise the cutting of timber used and the cutting of logs from forests in the joint management of uniform agricultural cooperatives to which it has exceptionally authorised the extraction of timber for their own use under Sections 15 and 16.
(2) The cut authorised in accordance with paragraph 1 may be made only by the sawmill national undertakings of the timber industry which are required to keep records of the actual cut. However, the Executive Authority of the District National Committee may authorise, instead of cutting, the replacement for sawn wood, in particular to exclude large transport distances.
(3) Only wood the acquisition of which is duly established may be accepted for cutting in the wage or for replacement for sawn wood:
(a) in the case of a single agricultural cooperative, by an authorisation for own use and a code list, certified by the forest management authority; individual pieces must be marked with a control gavel for forest management;
(b) in the case of timber used by the certification of the management body of the local national committee in whose district the timber has been obtained.
(4) The Executive Authorities of the District National Committees keep records of all cuts in wages (separate of which for single agricultural cooperatives); they shall report on a quarterly basis to the management authorities of the Regional National Committees, which shall submit these reports to the State Planning Commission and the Ministry of Agriculture, on this cut and the settlement of the cut-off to the funds allocated by the State Plan.
§ 9
Wood carving
The carving of wood having a thickness of 20 cm or more in the middle shall be prohibited.

Část II

Exceptional supply of timber
§ 10
The exceptional supply of timber consists of:
(a) the collection of waste wood and the extraction of stumps;
(b) in kind premiums and benefits;
(c) in the acquisition, does not break down in prunes;
(d) the production of timber which has been exceptionally authorised by the single agricultural cooperatives for their own use.
§ 11
Collection of waste wood and quarrying
(1) The collection of waste wood may only be carried out in the forest at a time of day without any payment and only on days to be determined by the management authority of the district national committee after consultation with a forest factory or with the owner (user) of the forest.
(2) The collection may not be carried out in places marked by the regional forest management authority or by the professional forest management.
(3) Steaming is permitted only if authorised by the management authority of the District National Committee; the permit is granted by that authority only in duly justified cases where the forest functions are not compromised by the extraction of the stumps.
(4) Unprocessed harvesting cages, if they are left to satisfy forest workers' claims and are not left in place for reasons of forest needs, must be immediately offered for sale to other interested parties. In the case of forests under professional management, the authority of the forest management shall decide on the keeping of the pliers on site for reasons of forest needs.
§ 12
Natural premiums and benefits
(1) For the approximation and removal of raw wood from the forest, the owners of the covers against the forest plant are entitled to the sale of wood at the applicable retail prices, namely:
(a) single agricultural cooperatives and public goods for each Kčs 1600, - 1 liter of fuel wood or 0,75 sqm of pulp,
(b) private suppliers with whom a contract has been concluded for the approximation, balancing and removal of timber in the areas to be determined by the Ministry of Agriculture for each Kčs 2000, - a profit for the sale of 1 prm of firewood, but not more than 10 prm per year.
(2) The natural premium for forest work for forest workers and their benefits is laid down by the Minister for Agriculture by special regulations. *) In the same way, in-kind premiums may be fixed for workers in the case of calamity.
§ 13
Obtaining does not collapse in prunes
It does not collapse in prunes can be obtained from the production of marked wood in young crops.
§ 14
Self-production of both fuel and utility shards is prohibited.
Exceptional authorisation of logging for own use of single agricultural cooperatives in forests associated with joint management
§ 15
(1) The Executive Authority of the District National Committee may, in exceptional cases, authorise a single agricultural cooperative, which has common management of forests, at its request, to mine raw timber for its own use.
(2) The Ministry of Agriculture shall communicate the total amount of timber the extraction of which may be authorised in the current year in accordance with paragraph 1 to the management authorities of the Regional National Committees for the purpose of dividing it into the executive authorities of the Regional National Committees.
§ 16
(1) The single agricultural cooperative may exceptionally be authorised for logging:
(a) if this wood is required necessarily for the recovery of burnt or natural disasters in badly damaged buildings;
(b) if the Fund fully covers the need for timber for the purposes referred to in the preceding point, the necessary repairs and reconstruction of the buildings of the single agricultural cooperative or, in exceptional cases, its members;
only if the single agricultural cooperative carries out properly planned tasks relating to its forestry management, the mining required corresponds to the forest economic plan and the actual state of the forest according to the findings of the forest management authorities allows the logging of timber to the extent required.
(2) The Executive Authority of the District National Committee may impose additional conditions on the single agricultural cooperative, in particular as regards afforestation tasks, in the case of an exceptional permit for logging for its own use.
(3) Exceptionally authorised logging shall be indicated by the forest management authority.
§ 17
(1) The management authorities of the district national committees shall keep a record of the exceptional permit for the extraction of raw timber for single agricultural cooperatives and submit quarterly reports to the Ministry of Agriculture, through the management bodies of the regional national committees.
(2) Regional management of forests shall keep records of and report to the Ministry of Agriculture of the extraordinary extractions actually carried out by the primary timber industry.

Část III

Final provisions
§ 18
They shall be deleted:
Decree No 250 / 1954 of the Ministry of Forestry and Wood Industry of the Ú. l., on the purchase of raw wood,
§ 3 and 4 of Decree No 331 / 1951 of the Ministries of Agriculture and Forestry and the Wood Industry, on the protection of trees growing outside the forest and on the management of timber produced thereof,
Decree of the Ministries of Agriculture and Forestry and Consumer Industry of 23 April 1957 No 117 812 / 1957-04 (order No 36 / 1957 Coll. inst.), as amended by Decree of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of 20 March 1958 No 99 431 / 58-415 (order No 30 / 1958 Coll. inst.).
§ 19
This decree shall take effect from the date of its publication.
Minister:
Strougal v. r.
*) Decree No. 68 / 1959 of the Ministry of Internal Trade on the supply of solid fuels to consumers.
*) Price list of Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry No. 12 - State Wholesale Prices 1958 - Raw Wood.
* *) ČSN 48 0092.
*) Decree of the Minister of Forestry of 13 October 1953 No 34 327 / 53-37.

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CitationDecree of the Ministry of Agriculture No. 32 / 1960 Coll., on the purchase of raw timber and on the exceptional supply of timber
Regulation Type-
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CollectionCode of Laws
Date of Promulgation05.04.1960
Effective from05.04.1960
Effective until-
Status Valid
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