Question 22814 — woods and forests

Summary

Ms. Bénédicte Taurine draws the attention of the Minister of Agriculture and Food to the provisions of the Occitanie PRFB “subject to the approval of the CRFB” (sic) and their lack of consistency with the provisions of the PNFB, particularly the “expected minimum content” of the PRFB and the nature of the planned indicators. By decree no. 2017-155 of February 8, 2017 approving the national forest and wood program, the Minister of Agriculture and Food is responsible for ensuring the execution of this program. Chapter III of the PNFB indicates the minimum expected content of the PRFB, Annex 3 of the PNFB shows that the expected indicators are quantitative monitoring indicators, not objective indicators, and Annex 4 indicates the additional production (harvest) objectives by region. This PRFB did not see fit to take into account the specificities notorious regional problems such as the unsuitability of public roads, the impact of climate change both on low-productivity forests and on fire risks or the low consumption of local wood by companies in the local sector (80% of the harvest is exported). This results in the absence of indicators making it possible to monitor the evolution of wood needs, the capacity of industrial tools, surface areas of forests equipped for DFCI, areas of forests and volumes of wood made accessible by the elimination of black spots on public roads, etc. What's more, the indicators mentioned are objective indicators which do not make it possible to monitor the effects over time of the actions undertaken and therefore to correct them in due time. Consequently, additional availability hypotheses remain very theoretical, even symbolic, unless the forests that are actually accessible are overexploited. Finally, by refusing, despite the request of the environmental authority, to locate additional samples by massif, the PRFB opens the door to the destruction by overexploitation of insufficiently productive but accessible forests. She therefore asks him what measures he plans to take so that the PRFB of the Occitanie region respects the provisions of the PNFB and in particular contains at least the expected minimum defined in Chapter III of the PNFB, the location of additional samples requested by the environmental authority and quantitative indicators making it possible to monitor the proposed actions.

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