The rise and fall of the private forestry sector initiative in Croatia
2012
Kiš, Konrad
This paper shortly describes the development and failure of the private forestry sector initiative in Croatia regarded through the aspects of contemporary political situation and inherent sectors (agriculture, nature protection), giving a short history of the development of forest policy regarding private forests and describing how policy makers are still, to a very high extent, influenced by the general politics. It was not before the 3rd millennium that private forestry sector in Croatia started to develop. This changes were driven by the general transition process accompanied by the process of integration to the EU and, of course, personal interests of the parties involved (their leaders, to be more precise). In the period 2005-2007, two important forestry institutions were founded (Forestry Chamber and the Forestry Extension Service) as well as numerous PFO organizations. These organizations were later gathered under the umbrella organization of the Private Forest Owners' Union, which set an ambitious goal of joining the CEPF in near future. As part of the anti-recession measures, the Government shut down the Forestry Extension Service by the end of 2010 and the Parliament amended the Forest Act in a way that declared the monopoly of the state forest company over all jurisdictions in private forests. The PFO Union ceased with all activities and was simply snuffed, which brings the question if it represented the interests of PFOs in the first place. These events by the end of 2010 definitely marked (hopefully, only temporarily) the failure of the private forestry initiative in Croatia. In other words, the pre-requisites for the beginning of a sound forestry policy-making process in Croatia have not yet been acquired
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