North Central State Enterprise SC - Gabrovo - Short Company profile

The state forest has increased by a total of 9160 decares from the 5 campaigns conducted over the past 8 years to purchase such territories. Their goal was to ensure the year-round maintenance of the healthy state of the forests and their protection from encroachments, fires and other adverse impacts by joining small forest properties to the state forests, whose owners do not have the ability or desire to manage and care for them. From the beginning of the first campaign in 2016 to 2024 inclusive, the largest total area of ??the purchased forest territories is in the area of ??operation of the "South-Central State Enterprise" - Smolyan (2,706 decares), the "South-Western State Enterprise" - Blagoevgrad (1,767 decares) and the "North-Central State Enterprise" - Gabrovo (1,605 decares). The average age of the forests in the property in the municipality of Smolyan is 60 years - mainly of Scots pine, with the main part of them being predominantly of artificial origin - crops. State forestry enterprises do not receive funding from the state budget for the implementation of the functions assigned to them by the Forestry Act, but are supported by revenues from their economic activities, predominantly from the sale of wood harvested during the management of the state forests that are provided to them for management. When launching the fourth campaign for the purchase of forest territories, 2 million leva were set aside for this purpose. During the previous three campaigns, transactions were finalized for the purchase of a total of 832 properties with a total area of ??4253 decares, for a total value of 3.168 million leva. The value is determined on the basis of an appraisal prepared by a qualified independent appraiser, and the costs of carrying out the appraisal are at the expense of the buyer - the relevant state enterprise. According to data for 2023 According to the latest report of the Executive Forestry Agency, the distribution of forest areas by type of ownership is as follows: state forest areas are 2,889,748 ha, forests managed by the Ministry of Environment and Water, which include reserves and national parks, are 172,362 ha, and municipal forest areas are 441,271 ha. There are a total of 381,068 hectares of forests owned by private individuals, and a total of 59,485 ha by companies and religious communities.