Legal Document

UNOFFICAL TRANSLATION

 

KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA

Nation-Religion-King

 

SUB-DECREE

ON

TIMBER AND NON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS

ALLOW FOR EXPORT AND IMPORT

 

ROYAL GOVERNMENT OF CAMBODIA

N_O.131 អនក្រ.បក

ROYAL GOVERNMENT OF CAMBODIA

Have seen: the Constitution of the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC);

Have seen: the Royal Decree នស/រកត/0704/124 dated 15^th July 2004 on the establishment of the RCG;

Have seen: the Royal Code (Preah Reach Kram) 02/នស/94 dated 20^th July 1994 on the promulgation of the law on arrangement and implementation of the Council of Minister;

Have seen: the Royal Code នស/រកម/0196/13 dated 24^th January 1996 on the promulgation of the law on the establishment of the Ministry of Agriculture forestry and Fisheries;

Have seen: the Royal Code នស/​រកម/0802/016 dated 31^th August 2002 on the promulgation of the Law on Forestry;

Have seen: the Decree (kret) 57 ក្រ dated 26^th July 1989 on the promulgation of the Law on Import and Export Tax,

Have seen: the Sub-decree 17 អនក្រ.បក dated 7^th April 2009 on the arrangement and implementation of the Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries;

Have seen: the Sub- decree 64 អនក្រ.បក dated 11^th September 2003 on the change of name of the Department of Forestry to Forestry Administration;

Receiving the adoption from the plenary session of the Council of Minister on 20^th October 2006;

 

Hereby decided as follows

Article 1: The objective of the Sub-decree is to identify Forest and Non-Timber Forest Products allowed to export and import.

 

Article 2: The following products are allowed export:

A. Allow to export all kinds of processed and non-processed timber products deriving from man-made forest. Timber products from rubber plantation are under different jurisdiction,

B. Allow to expert forest and non-timber forest products from legal sources of natural forest as follows:

1. Furniture, parts of furniture, and parts of bookshelf;

2. Wood-carving products, wood toys, decorated wood forest product and other similar products;

3. Parquet and flooring board;

4. Assembled or not yet assembled wood crate and pallet board;

5. Mauled and sanded wood door and window frame, finger joined board, wood for tool handle;

6. Wood glue together to become board;

7. Particle board under high pressure and plywood;

8. Wood veneer, rotary or slice into piece;

9. Cross-cutting wood, 15cm, maximum thickness, with or without bark;

10. S2S or S4S (smoothed 2 sides or smoothed 4 sides) with export quality;

11. Wood chip, wood pulp;

12. Wood match, tooth-pick, chop sticks;

13. Railway sleeper (except luxury wood);

14. Square wood with a maximum with/thickness of 25cm, which have been seasoned naturally (sun dry) or technically in dry kiln;

15. Painting frame, photo frame, glass frame, art carving board and its holder, and other similar products;

16. Timber or non-timber forest products following traditional style:

a. Art or traditional spirit products such as racing boat, rowing boat, ox-cart, buffalo cart, horse cart, roofless howdah

b. Daily used instrument such as bow, mortar, pestle, carrying frame, woven  baskets, luggage, fish traps, animal cages, box for keeping metal material, cigarette or other tool used in agriculture such as plow, rake, mattock handle, cleaver, or knife handle, axe handle, hitching post, wedge, basket for carrying soil

c. Equipment and other tool used in agriculture such as plow, rake, mattock handle, cleaver or knife handle, axe handle, hitching post, wedge, basket for carrying soil

b. Equipment and fishing tools such as fish traps, posts, oar, paddle

c. Music instrument such drum, Khmer guitar, xylophone, Khmer violin, zither

d. Other similar products;

1- Bamboo plywood, assembled bamboo sticks or boards, rattan, vine and other similar products;

2- All kinds of wood resin/latex and wild mushroom;

3- Oil extracted from timber and nom-timber forest products;

4- Products from medicinal plants, poisonous plants, sweet smell plants, bio-chemical and substance for tannery plants;

5- Flowers, leaves, fruits of wild plants;

6- Products processed from all kinds of non-timber forest product;

7- Wildlife product, processed or not processed and wildlife specimens from the group of common wildlife species.

 

Article 3: The following products are not allowed to export:

1-Logs whether debarked or nor;

2-Crude or rough sawn timber;

3-Squared logs with a thickness or width of more than 25cm, even when smoothed;

4- Oil extracted from MOREAH PROEUV (Dyxosilum Lorreiri), yellow vine, and yellow vine powder;

5- Firewood and charcoal from natural forests.

 

Article 4: The following products are allowed to import:

A. Round or squared logs, sawn timber, and other forest and non-timber forest products;

B. Processed timber or non-timber forest products.

 

Article 5: Forest and non-timber forest products allowed to export or import are subjected to pay taxes in accordance with existing laws.

 

Article 6: As mentioned in article 2, paragraph B, point number 16 of this Sub-decree:

A. Export of processed timber or non-timber forest products following traditional style at family or tourist scales are allowed without requirement of export license, and transportation permit issued by Head of Forestry administration;

B. Export of processed timber or non-timber forest products following traditional style by client or third party for commercial purpose are allowed without Export License requirement. However, transportation permit issue by Head of Forestry Administration will be required.

 

Article 7: Except products stipulated in article 2, paragraph B, point number 16 of this Sub-decree, export of timber and non-timber forest products as stipulated in article 2 require export license issue by Ministry of Commerce and visa by the Head of Forestry Administration. Extension of export license validity will be issued by Ministry of Commerce.

 

Article 8: The import of processed and non-processed timber and non-timber forest products as stipulated in article 4 if this sub-decree for raw material of local industry production require import license issue by the Ministry of Commerce with visa issue by the Head of Forestry Administration and require transportation permit issue by the Head of Forestry Administration.

 

Article 9: Strictly ban the import of all kinds of epidemic plants, wildlife, and other flora or fauna which impact local sources of genetic.

 

Article 10: The Royal Government may allow the export or import of other forest and non-timber forest products when necessary according to regional, international or national socio-economic demand.

 

Article 11: Forest and nom- timber forest products will be allowed to export or import only through government official ports.

 

Article 12: Any regulation that is contrast to this Sub-decree is nullified.

 

Article 13: Minster in charge of Council of Ministers, Minister of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries, Minister of Economy and Finance, Minister of Commerce, Minister of Environment, Minster of Health, Ministers, State Secretaries of all relevant ministries, must implement this Sub-degree in accordance with their respective duties from this date of signature onward.

 

Capital city of Phnom Penh, 28^th November 2006

Prime Minister

HUN SEN

Signed and Sealed

 

Receivers:       

- Ministry of the Royal Palace

-General Secretary of the Constitutional Council

-General Secretary of the Senate

-General Secretary of the National Assembly

-General Secretary of the Royal Government

-Cabinet of the Prime Minister

-Cabinet of H.E.  Deputy Prime Minister

-Provincial cities and Municipalities

-Same as article 13

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