Municipalities and state forest enterprises incur significant losses due to violations carried out in the forests showed the analysis of the discipline of the use and abuse of the assumptions in the woods, made at the fifteenth session of the Governing Council of the Association “Municipal forest” on 26 September, 2013 Mr., conducted with the participation of the Minister of Agriculture and Food Prof. Greeks, Deputy Minister Dr. Eng. Valentina Marinova and Executive Director of the EFA Eng. Grigor Gogov,

Given the shared responsibility of municipalities and state-owned enterprises and their divisions to increase the impact of measures to reduce the violations, AOG organized a series of training seminars for local and state forest administrations, the first of which is the days 17- 18 October this year in Samokov.

Publish Program of training seminars: "Expanding the capacity of forest officials to protect forests", coordinated by Deputy Minister Dr Marinova, and Program of the seminar 17-18 October Samokov.

On 26 September Fifteenth Regular Meeting of the Board of Association "Municipal forest" between MAF and the Association signed Memorandum of Cooperation. The minutes of the meeting read here.

В заседанието взеха участие (на снимката отдясно наляво): Dr. Valentina Marinova - Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food, Prof.. DS. Dimitar Grekov - Minister, Zivko Todorov - Chairman of the Association “Municipal forest”, Mayor of Stara Zagora, and Eng. Tihomir Tomanov – Executive Director of the Association.

Изпълнителният директор, на ИАГ – Eng. Grigor Gogov, връчи на ръководството на АОГ поздравителен адрес, който може да прочетете here. В отговор изпълнителният директор на АОГ – Eng. Tihomir Tomanov, заяви: “On behalf of the leadership of the Association “Municipal forest” I assure you of our readiness in cooperation with the National Forestry with even greater effort to work to increase the efficiency of management and the management of forests and woodlands in Bulgaria.”

Fifteenth in a row meeting of the Board of Association "Municipal Forests" will be held on 26 September Elena. The meeting will be attended by the Minister of Agriculture and Food, Prof. DS. Dimitar Grekov, Deputy Minister Dr Valentina Marinova, Executive Director of the EFA – Eng. Grigor Gogh and Zivko Todorov – Chairman of the Board of AOG. With stocktaking for the conservation and development of community forest, presented by Eng. Tihomir Tomanov – CEO of AOG, will mark the five-year period from the establishment of the Association. Members will adopt new municipalities

CEO of AOG will present the results of participation in the forum EFOSG in Strasbourg. The meeting will discuss the current problems of the municipalities in connection with the ownership of the forest areas and their management. Will be reviewed and approved documents relating to the organization of training seminars for municipalities on conservation issues of municipal forests - compilation of acts of violations and the issuance of criminal warrants.

Expected to be discussed and adopted an official document - Memorandum of Cooperation between the MAF and AOG.

Documents, will badat discussed and adopted at the meeting, can be downloaded here.