Unofficial translationCHAPTER 1General regulationsThe Act defines the rules for the conservation, protection, and enlargement of forest resources, and the rules for the forest economy as linked with other elements of the environment and the national economy.The regulations of the Act are applied to forests irrespective of their form of ownership.Areas acknowledged by the Act to be forests are those:with a continuous area of at least 0.1 ha under forest vegetation (forest stands) - trees and shrubs with herbaceous ground cover as well - or temporarily without vegetation, but: destined for forest production, or being a nature reserve or part of a National Park, or listed by the register of antiquities. connected with the forest economy and occupied by installations used in the service of the forest economy: buildings and constructions, devices for water regulation, fines for the partition of forest space, forest roads, belts under power lines, forest nurseries and timber depots, as well ...