QuestionsQuestions (DENR ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 96-26)
Qualified applicants are Integrated Social Forestry Program (ISFP) participants whose stewardship areas contain mature and harvestable planted trees and other non-timber products.
The applicant must apply to the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) using the prescribed application form (Annex A).
The SFDO receives and processes the application and indorses/recommends it to the Community Environment and Natural Resources Officer (CENR Officer) for approval.
The SFDO must conduct a free-of-charge inventory at 100% intensity over the applied area within ten (10) days, except under reasonable circumstances.
The inventory must consider (1) trees or stock to be left for production, (2) soil erosion control, and (3) stream bank protection.
The inventory is jointly conducted by the SFDO and the Community Development Officer/Assistant (CDO/CDA) of the concerned Local Government Unit (LGU).
The inventory team must mark consecutively and distinctly all inventoried planted trees or non-timber products.
The inventory report, duly certified (Annex B), must be submitted to the CENRO concerned within five (5) days after date of completion of the field inventory report.
The SFDO prepares the permit to harvest following the prescribed format (Annex C).
All shipment must be accompanied by a Certificate of Origin (Annex D) issued by the concerned CENR Officer.
Transport, disposition, and utilization must comply with existing forest and internal revenue laws, rules, and regulations, and shipment must have the Certificate of Origin; issuance of the permit is also subject to the SFDO’s recommendation and presentation of the appropriate Auxiliary Invoice.
Yes. Trees may be exported by the permittee subject to proper application, documentation, and issuance of export authority in accordance with applicable exportation procedures and regulations.
The permittee must submit a monthly report and a terminal report after the lapse of the permit.
It is illegal, and violators shall be punished in accordance with Section 68 of PD 705, as amended (Sec. 7 of RA 7161), and other appropriate laws.
It was issued pursuant to Executive Order No. 192 (June 10, 1987) and Sections 20 and 39 of PD 705, as amended.
It takes effect immediately. The repealing clause states that all orders, issuances, and instructions inconsistent herewith are repealed, revoked, or amended accordingly.