The heads of Transbaikalia and Buryatia will lose forest powers due to fires

Forest fires in Siberia can lead to the fact that the leaders of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation will deprive the authority of forest management. Such a decision regarding Buryatia and Transbaikalia instructed to consider Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Khloponin, writes Kommersant.

Khloponin instructed the Ministry of Natural Resources in the near future to prepare proposals to withdraw from the heads of Buryatia and Transbaikalya of the powers to manage forests,

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ministries to publication. In the case of a positive decision, the monitoring of the sphere will be transferred to the federal level.

“Work on this [proposal] has already begun,” the Ministry of Natural Resources said.

The regional authorities received the powers to protect forests in 2007. Now the costs of their fire safety are divided approximately equally,

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"Kommersant". The Forest Code implies the possibility of redistribution of authority.

However, Khloponin’s assignment will be “difficult”, the source of the newspaper in the Ministry of Natural Resources claims: “The fact is that a specific mechanism for transferring powers is not described anywhere. And what will this mean in reality are still difficult to say. ”