ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY, AS SECURITY ELEMENT OF THE PRINCIPLE OF SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT
The concept of sustainable forest management hasn’t been revealed by the current federal legislation. The principle of sustainable forest management is declarative in nature and is almost never used in forest management. The mechanism of forest certification, being a tool for the evaluation of the sustainability of forest management, hasn’t been either designed or put into operation. The legal regulation of registration, labeling and transportation of timber, declaring transactions with timber as well as administrative responsibility for violation of legislation on forestry and timber deals have become important steps towards the creation of the tool to assess the sustainability of forest management. The relevance and novelty of this article is provided by the conclusion that the administrative responsibility of business entities for forestry violations should be regarded as an essential element of a security of the principle of sustainable forest management.