Businesses using forest environmental services to pay fee under a new decree
Businesses involved in eco-tourism that use forest environmental services will have to pay fees for these services under the latest decree, which took effect on July 18. The update was announced on Wednesday during a conference on the Government’s Decree No. 91/2024/NĐ-CP. The decree provides detailed regulations for enforcing specific provisions of the Forestry Law and introduces changes to Decree No. 156/2018/NĐ-CP, issued on November 16, 2018.
These include adjustments to the area of different types of forests, management of ecological, recreational and leisure activities in forests, forest allocation, leasing, withdrawal and decisions on changing forest land use purposes, forest type conversion, policies on changing forest use purposes, infrastructure projects for sustainable protection and development, forest environmental services and transitional regulations.
