INSTITUTIONAL COMPONENT OF SYSTEM OF ENSURING BALANCED USE OF RESOURCES IN ECONOMY OF REGIONS OF THE LOW-FOREST ZONE
Actual problem of ensuring balanced use of resources (including forest) in regional economy is accurate definition of institutional bases of functioning of various sectors of economy of the region. In this article authors considered institutional restrictions of use of forest resources in economy of regions of the low-forest zone of Russia (the majority of nature protection norms operating in the Russian Federation and rules has only advisory nature; created the understanding of essence of forest fund; developed institutional fixing of rent relations; developed the ecological component in the forest legislation; division of functions of public administration and economic functions at different levels of the Public forest service of the Ministry of natural resources of the Russian Federation is only in an initial stage; the Forest code of the Russian Federation and other regulations governing the forest relations demands further improvement; the existing regulatory base of forestry and forest exploitation in insufficient degree considers features of market economy in forest sector, and also designated feature of low-forest regions), the basic principles of institutional ensuring use of forest resources. In article authors emphasized that improvement of public administration by balance of use of forest resources in economy of regions of a low-forest zone is the important legislative direction. However the Forest code of the Russian Federation - the main document governing forest relations - demands further improvement. The analysis of institutional restrictions of balanced use of resources of regions of the low-forest zone allows to define the main directions of improvement of institutional base of regulation of economic activity of forest sector.