PART 2Forestry functions
CHAPTER 1General forestry functions
Forestry strategy
3Duty to prepare forestry strategy
1
The Scottish Ministers must prepare a forestry strategy.
2
The forestry strategy—
a
must set out a vision for forestry in Scotland,
b
must set out the Scottish Ministers’ objectives, priorities and policies with respect to the promotion of sustainable forest management, and
c
may set out other matters with respect to the promotion of sustainable forest management.
3
The forestry strategy must include the Scottish Ministers’ objectives, priorities and policies with respect to—
a
the creation of woodland,
b
the economic development of forestry,
c
targets for the planting of trees,
d
the conservation and enhancement of the environment by means of sustainable forest management,
e
the realisation of the social benefits of forestry,
f
the acquisition and disposal of land under sections 18 to 20,
g
the production and supply of timber and other forest products.
4
The Scottish Ministers—
a
must keep the forestry strategy under review, and
b
may, if they consider it appropriate to do so, revise the strategy.
5
If the Scottish Ministers have not revised the forestry strategy under subsection (4)(b) within the period of 9 years beginning with the day on which the strategy was last published, they must revise the strategy.