Cele i priorytety "Polityki leśnej państwa" w świetle porozumień procesu Forest Europe (dawniej MCPFE) Goals and priorities of the "National Forest Policy" in the light of the Forest Europe (formerly MCPFE) commitments
The ‘National Forest Policy' (PLP), adopted by the Council of Ministers in 1997, is the main
document setting out directions of forestry development in Poland. It defines goals and priorities
of forest policy, describes organizational, economic and legal conditions of its implementation
and specifies expected results. While the natural, social, economic, institutional and legal environ−
ment has significantly changed over the last 20 years, the PLP has not been revised and updated,
also in terms of Poland's international commitments resulting from the MCPFE (currently Forest
Europe) process. The aim of the paper is to analyse directions of forest policy development under
the Forest Europe after 1997, i.e. when the PLP came into force, and to indicate needs to update
the issues contained in this document. The study focuses on goals and priorities of the MCPFE
defined in resolutions and decisions adopted on conferences held from 1998 (Lisbon) to 2015
(Madrid). Overall 15 main directions on forest policy development were identified (tab. 2). They
were then compared with the priorities defined in the PLP to identify issues to be updated in
the context of the European forest policy change. The study shows that many of the priorities
of European forest policy has not been reflected in the PLP (tab. 2). These include, among others,
adapting forests to climate change and enhancing their mitigation potential, enhancing economic
contribution of the sustainable forest management (SFM) into rural development, enhancing
the role of the SFM in a green economy, securing participation of all stakeholders in forest−related
decision−making process, improving communication in forestry and developing cross−sectoral
cooperation of forestry. Many of the forest−related issues have been, however, included in numerous
strategic documents of environmental protection, biodiversity conservation, rural development,
economic development or energy policies after 1997. In that way many goals and priorities defined
under the Forest Europe are very dispersed in Polish policy documents of different forest−related
sectors and it raises reasonable concern that some inconsistencies and contradictions between
them may occur. It may also indicate that the forest sector is getting more and more marginalized
in socioeconomic and political space, as forest policy goals are defined and achieved within other
areas. We therefore recommend to continue efforts to adopt the National Forest Programme
and launch a participatory, holistic, inter−sectoral and iterative process of forest policy planning,
implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
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