The representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection presented the Bill amending and modifying the Law on Forests which the Committee unanimously accepted. Sasa Stamatovic, Head of the Forest Directorate, provided the rationale on the Bill stressing the urgency of the amendments and modifications to the Law on Forests. The Committee mainly focused on the suggestions how to improve the emergency response system, on the sale of timber, local forest management, penalties for illegal cutting of forests and similar.

The sitting was also attended by Mladen Mladenovic, Assistant Minister for Legal and Normative Affairs, and Ruzica Tripic and Ljilja Sovilj, department heads at the Ministry.

The sitting was chaired by Committee Chairman Marijan Risticevic.