4th Russian-Finnish Forest Summit

Deputy. FBI Director VNIILM Doctor of Technical Sciences Boris Bolshakov took part in the Russian-Finnish Forest Summit, which took place on 14-15 November in Helsinki.

At the plenary session were greeted by the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry and the deputy. Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia. On current issues in the development of forestry and forest industries with the main speakers were: Head of the Federal Forestry Agency of Russia VN Maslyakov and Director, Department of Industry and Trade MY wedge.

The Summit was held forum on business and investment in the forest sector in the form of round tables. On a round table discussion with the forest policy for the development of business and investment B. Bolshakov made a report on forest resources to ensure high-priority investment projects in Russia, problems and their solutions. The report noted that over the last 3 years the number of projects increased from 30 to 118. Investment amounted to 428 billion rubles. Leaders in terms of investment Siberian (166 billion rubles.) And Northwest (107 billion rubles). Federal Districts.

Annual consumption lesosyrya already signed contracts is 57 million m3. To phase input power reserved lesosyrya additional volumes with an annual volume of more than 20 million m3. All investment projects lesosyrem fully provided. In its report, B. Bolshakov noted major problems with the provision of road infrastructure, the cost of which is up to 10% of the share of direct costs per 1 m3 during harvesting and lesotransportnyh works. However, the one-time cost for the construction of logging roads year-round activities, such as reinforced concrete pavement, with turnover of 1 million m3 per year could be more than 1 billion rubles.

Noted that Russia's entry in the WTO prohibits direct government support for business, so you need to enter public-private partnerships for the development of road infrastructure, concession conditions and the use of private ownership of forests to reduce the risk of investors.

In the final part of the Summit summed up his work, Prime Minister of Finland Jyrki Kataynenom and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who approved the proposal of the Summit on trade and economic cooperation between Russia and Finland.

This article has been translated by machine translation.