Question 17222 — woods and forests

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Mr. Vincent Rolland draws the attention of the Minister of Agriculture and Food to the new methods of collection by the National Forestry Office (ONF), of revenues from municipal timber sales and beyond to the future of French forest management policy. While forestry municipalities have initiated broad consultation on the future of public forest management in France, the board of directors of the ONF of November 29, 2018 aimed to ratify a 2019 budget which would establish a new collection system which will have the consequence of delaying the payment of the proceeds of sales by 3 months, despite the firm opposition of the National Federation of Forestry Communes. They legitimately believe that the introduction of a financial intermediary in revenue management would contravene the rules of public accounting, ensured by the municipal collector for the municipalities and would harm the transparency and efficiency of the accounting system, with additional complexity and unnecessary management. Furthermore, the forestry municipalities are upset by the decisions to freeze positions decided for 2018 and 2019, in contradiction with the 2016-2020 objectives and performance contract which provided for maintaining the ONF workforce. Therefore he wants to know the position of the Government on this issue as well as the measures it intends to take to re-establish dialogue with forest communities and build an ambitious forest management policy.

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