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FOUNDATION PRIVATE FOREST CENTER

 Founded in March 23, 1999

 Founders:
– Võru County Government – Estonia
– Commune of Kiikala – Finland
 Financed by Phare Interreg

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 ADMINISTRATION of PFC

 COUNCIL – 7 Representatives
– Forest owners organizations - 3
– Ministry of Agriculture – 1
– Ministry of Environment – 1
– Forest Industries Federation – 1
– Võru County Government – 1
 BOARD – 1 Member
 EMPLOYEES – 4 specialist
 Long-terms and short-terms contractors
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 Legislative base

 Forestry development plan

 Forest act
 Decree of minister of environment

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 PRIORITIES OF THE FORESTRY
DEVELOPMENT PLAN

 Reforestation
 Tending of plantations and cleaning
 Forestation of abandoned agricultural plots
 Preservation of biological diversity
 Forest machinery procurement
 Soil improvement
 Forest road building and reconstruction
 Forest biology maintenance
 Occupational training
 Forest insurance
 Forest owners co-operation
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 Agricultural sector Forestry sector

Area 1/3 Estonian territory(in use 1/2 Estonian territory

770000 ha)
NATURA 2000 area 57 000 ha 470 000 ha

SKP (2004/2000) 2,55 mld kr 1,54 mld kr (decreasing)

SKP per emploee 125 000 kr 275 000 kr

Subsidies 1217,3 mln kr 10,6 mln kr

Employment (2004) 23700 (agriculture) 7200 (forestry)

21300 (food industry) 22700 (forest industry)
Processing industry 11,7 mld kr 10,9 mld kr
production (2003)
Melioration systems 730 000 ha 580 000 ha

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 MAIN OBJECTIVE OF PFC

 Promotion of commercial utilization of

private forests, based on
environmentally, socially and
economically sustainable principles

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MAIN GROUP OF ACTIVITIES OF PFC

 Structural development of extension services,

providing training courses for forest owners,
advisors and forest certifiers (awareness)
 Development of economical co-operation
between forest owners themselves and
entrepreneurs (subsidies for private
investments)
 Financing of forest management plans
 General development activities
 Services for fee
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 The growth of capital flows to PFC in 2001-2005

900 000 Ministry of Environment

800 000
Environmental Investment Centre
478 889
700 000

€
600 000
500 000
400 000 255 646
300 000
127 823 383 469
200 000 228 803
141 577 191 734 134 789
100 000
0
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
year

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STATE SUPPORT FOR AWARENESS AND
GENERAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
Activities \ EUR 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Extension service 9 700 35 800 39 400 30 750 27 600 41 800
Group counsel 5 800 9 200 9 300 18 900 21 850 25 600
FO training - - 11 000 27 200 29 850 34 100
Consult. training - - - 9 450 7 700 10 400
Sample plot - - - 5 300 3 200 3 100
Tutorial film - - - 4 700 5 100 5 100
Internet gate - - - 4 800 4 500 4 500
Literature - - - 12 150 5 100 15 400
Leaders support - - - - 12 800 40 600
Forest manag. plan - - - - - 51 900
Foreign cooperatio - - - - - 21 600
Other - - - 45 000 66 800 377 200
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 FOREST OWNERS CO-OPERATION

 Soil preparation (70 % of total expenses)

 Young stand tending (70 %)
 Reforestation (70%)
 Nursery subsidy (3 200 EUR per project)
 Cocoon watch (2 600 EUR per project)
 Economical co-operation of small projects (90%)
 Melioration and road construction (70%)
 Afforestation of abandoned agricultural land (70%)

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 STATE SUBSIDIES FOR PRIVATE
INVESTMENTS
Activities \ EUR 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Soil preparation 11 800 11 900 38 600 29 100 74 150 91 400
Tending of young - 2 900 12 300 26 200 64 600 76 700
stand
Economic co- - - 1 700 18 100 13 300 38 300
operation project
Nursery - - - 19 200 17 900 35 500
Cocoon watch - - - 2 600 2 600 10 200
Reforestation - - - - 75 900 103 500
Afforestation - - - - 21 100 14 600
Melioration and - - - - 26 850 71 900
road construction

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 The support given by Private Forest Centre for three main
measures

90 000 soil preparation

80 000 young stand tending
70 000
reforestation
60 000
€ 50 000
40 000
30 000
20 000
10 000
0
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
year

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 SERVICES FOR FEE

 Forest economical value evaluation

 Legal consultancy
 Auction for growing stock, timber and
forest title

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 Subsidies given by Private Forest centre in years 2000-2005
support to the contact persons in counties

researches, inquirys

800 000 international co-operation

subsidies for forest management plan composing

700 000 forest detrim ent prevention

school forest projects

600 000
subsidies for accounting service to the forest
owners associations

€
500 000 forest sample area creation

counselors schooling
400 000 forest owners schooling

group counseling
300 000
individual counseling for forest owners

200 000 abandoned agricultural land forestation

forest drainage and road building

100 000 plantation material growing

neighborhood grooming
0
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 economical co-operation project

year young stand tending

soil preparation

reforestation

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