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Owners - Managers- Agents Seminar

North West & West Midlands28 June 2012

Kevin May - National Incentives Team Manager

06/07/2012 Forestry Commission England2

What will be covered

• Strategic overview

• FC organisational issues

• Grants

• Compliance

• Regulations

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Strategic Overview

• Forestry Regulation Task Force– Gangmasters– Earned recognition

– Management planning

• Independent Panel– Report to ministers 4 July

• Single Environmental Body– Wales, no current plans in England

• New RDPE programme– 1st January 2014– Management Plans – Loss of income foregone

• Grant Merger– Discussions ongoing unlikely to see change prior to 2015


SFM Organogram

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Regulation Task Force

•Management Planning

–Vehicle for grants

–Vehicle for approvals

–Prove UKFS compliance

–NE consents

•Earned Recognition

•Develop Woodland Partnerships



•More effective Regulation and Delivery

–Civil sanctions

–Better website design for ease of use

–Risk based inspections

•Simplification of grants

–Electronic forms

–Encouragement of e-applications

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• Felling Licences– Maintain

– Web based illegal felling reporting

• Simpler mapping– Digital

– consistent

• Revisit EPS

• Simplified registration on the RLR

• Restock notices as a land charge?


Grants

• Budgets

– 12/13 open for woodland creation, planning, plant

health, woodfuel wig. Potential later in year to open up

for other grant types.

– 13/14 open for full suite of EWGS

• Grant Types

– Changes to creation grant

• higher incentive levels

• removal of scoring forms

• focus on water, access, nature, rural economy

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Grants

• Woodfuel WIG

– Interim management plan solution re Woodfuel WIG

• No other changes currently

– poss WRG await Independent panel responses

• E- Forms

– Middle way

– web based

– w/c 9 July

– cover full range of grant types


Regulations

• Felling licences

– 5 yr approval

– Habitat restoration - Changes to database and

application form – also GLOS

– SSSI consent given with Felling Licence

– HLS applications given felling Licence with HLS

contract

– FC/NE National Accord

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Compliance issues

• Penalties

• Inspections

– Accountant’s certificate (FWP)

• Cross compliance

– Reporting breaches


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