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Timestamp: 2019-04-20 00:37:05+00:00

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Establishes technical parameters to be adopted for the preparation, presentation, technical assessment and enforcement of Sustainable Forestry Exploitation Plans (PMFS) related to the logging of native forests and their successional stages, within the Amazon biome.
Art. 1 Establish technical parameters to be adopted for the preparation, presentation, technical assessment and enforcement of Sustainable Forestry Exploitation Plans (PMFS) related to the logging, of native forests and their successional stages, within the Amazon biome, which must be enforced by the organs that compose the National Environment System (SISNAMA), on any level of competence, according to the provisions set by this Resolution.
§ 1 This Resolution is not applicable to exotic or native planted forests.
§ 2 Other technical directives that may be adopted for the approval of PMFS will comply with the stipulations set by the competent environmental organ.
XV – Technical Survey: field assessment in order to subsidize the analysis, follow-up and control, regularly, the operations and activities within the Forestry Exploitation Area (AMF) undertaken by the competent environmental organ.
II PMFS’s that foresee the use of machines to drag logs.
b) the criteria used for the selection of logging trees foreseen in the PMFS.
d) preservation of all trees of all species whose abundance of individuals with a DAP higher than the DMC is equal or inferior to three trees per 100 hectare of effective UPA exploitation area, within each Work Unit (UT).Art. 5 The competent environmental organ may authorize, based on studies on the medium volume per tree, a logging intensity above 10 m3/ha, limited to three trees per hectare, for PMFS’s that do not use machines for log dragging purposes.
Art. 6 It is hereby established a DMC of 50 centimeters for all species that have not been the object of specific DMC setting.
IX – adoption of measures that mitigate environmental and social impacts.
§ 1 The technical studies mentioned in the heading of this article must take into account local peculiarities and specifications and present the scientific principles upon which it is based.
§ 2 Reduction of logging cycles is conditioned to the presentation of proof of basal area recuperation for classes with a diameter that is equal or higher than the DMC, based on continuous forestry stock inventory data.
Art. 8 It is allowed to collect wastes such as branches and buttresses from exploited trees.
§ 1 The methods and procedures that will be adopted for the extraction and measuring of wastes from forest exploitation must be described in the PMFS as well as their final destination/usage.
§ 2 The authorized collection of wastes from forest exploitation is limited to 1 cubic meter during the, first year, per cubic meter of authorized logs, or defined through cubage.
§ 3 From the second year of forest exploitation residual collection the authorization will only be granted based on dendrometric data for the specific exploitation area or through a residual stock inventory according to technical directives. a.
Art. 9. The competent environmental organ will analyze any proposals related to the alteration of parameters foreseen by this Resolution based on technical directives and will forward them to the forestry Technical chamber for a final analysis and decision.
Art. 10. The competent environmental organ will only accept calculations of volume based on erect trees, for second year Annual Operational Plans (POAs) and only through the volume equations specifically developed for the PMFS.
Art. 11. The Forestry Inventory Sample must follow the directives defined by the forest Technical chamber of the competent environmental organ.
Art. 12. The Activity Report must include information related to the difference between the planned volume and the effective exploited volume, per species.
Art. 13. The adoption of processes that allow for the control of the origin of the production, through lumber tracking of exploited trees, is mandatory, from the forest location to the deployment location.
Single paragraph. The competent environmental organs will provide guidelines regarding the procedures mentioned in the heading of this article.
Art. 14. The competent environmental organ must set periods when logging activities are banned as well as the dragging of logs and transportation during the rainy season, PMFS’s for firm-land areas will follow local seasonal aspects.
Art. 15. Reentry into exploited areas is allowed as long as they use the same structure that has been established and approved in the POA, during the validity period of the AUTEX, while considering local seasonal aspects.
Art. 16. The validity of the AUTEX is 12 months and may be extended by another 12 months if duly justified.
Art. 17. The introduction and the execution of PMFSs is conditioned to the presentation of a Notification of Technical Responsibility (ART) by a legally qualified professional.
Art. 18. Exploitation plans will be inspected through samples in intervals of a minimum of two tears per PMFS.
Art. 19. The characterization of the successional stages of the Amazon Biome will the object of specific standards issued by the competent environmental organ.
Art. 20. The adoption of scientific-technical procedures for the identification of the botany of exploited forests is mandatory, in order to safeguard the relation between scientific and popular names within the UMF.
Single paragraph. The issuing of the AUTEX is conditioned to the identification of exploited species by their respective scientific names.
Art. 21. This Resolution shall enter into effect on the date of its publication.
This text does not substitute the text published in the Official Gazette on Feb. 6, 2009.

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