Foreign legal entities (including branches of foreign companies) cannot access land on the same terms as locally incorporated entities. They may only access land on a leasehold long-term basis (up to 99 years), while legal entities of the Republic of Belarus may own certain types of land and hold land on a permanent use basis. Foreign-owned locally incorporated companies are not considered foreign legal entities and, hence, are not affected. Private ownership of agricultural and forestry land is not permitted, regardless of nationality. Legal entities of of the Republic of Belarus may only obtain agricultural and forestry land under permanent use right for such purposes.
"Article 5. Ownership of forests and forest products
1. Forests are the exclusive property of the state.
2. The Republic of Belarus exercises ownership, use and disposal of forests through authorized state bodies (organizations) within their competence.
3. Forest products harvested, collected, seized in the manner prescribed by the legislation on the use, protection, protection and reproduction of forests, is the property of the persons who harvested, collected, seized it, unless otherwise established by the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus, this Code and other legislative acts or documents on the basis of which the right to forest use arises.
4. Transactions that violate (restrict) the ownership right of the Republic of Belarus to forests are prohibited.
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CHAPTER 5 - FOREST MANAGEMENT
Article 20. The right to conduct forestry
1. The following legal entities engaged in forestry have the right to conduct forestry with the provision of forest fund plots for these purposes:
1.1. state forestry institutions subordinate to the republican body of state administration for forestry;
1.2. state forestry institutions subordinate to the republican body of state administration pursuing the state policy in the field of defense; [...]
1.7. organizations subordinate to city (cities of regional subordination and the city of Minsk) executive and administrative bodies, the competence of which includes forestry management.
2. The right to conduct forestry with the provision of forest fund plots for these purposes may be granted to other organizations not specified in paragraph 1 of this article, by decision of the President of the Republic of Belarus and on the conditions provided for by such a decision.
3. Decisions on the provision of forest fund plots for forestry and on changing the boundaries of forest fund plots provided for forestry to legal entities engaged in forestry are taken by the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus, unless otherwise established by the President of the Republic of Belarus.
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Article 37
1. Forest management is carried out according to the following types:
1.1. timber harvesting; 1.2. preparation of resin; 1.3. harvesting of secondary forest resources; 1.4. secondary forest management; 1.5. forest management for research and educational purposes; 1.6. forest management for the purpose of holding cultural and health-improving, tourist, other recreational and (or) mass sports, health-improving and sporting events.
2. Harvesting of secondary forest resources includes harvesting:
2.1. stumps and roots; 2.2. birch bark and tree branches; 2.3. New Year's coniferous trees; 2.4. spruce serki; 2.5. bast and bark.
3. Secondary forest management includes:
3.1. preparation of tree juices; 3.2. collection of wild berries and mushrooms; 3.3. collection of wild fruits and nuts;  3.4. procurement of wild plants and their parts;  3.5. harvesting moss, collecting forest litter and fallen leaves;  3.6. placement of beehives and apiaries;  3.7. haymaking;  3.8. grazing;  3.9. procurement, collection of medicinal and other plants grown on fruit and berry, nut and other forest plantations;  3.10. removal of wild plants. 
4. Legal entities and individual entrepreneurs may carry out forest management for all types specified in paragraph 1 of this article.
5. Citizens can carry out logging, logging of secondary forest resources (in terms of logging birch bark and tree branches), secondary forest management (with the exception of logging, collection of medicinal and other plants grown on fruit and berry, nut and other forest plantations, withdrawal of wild plants ).
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Article 39. Permits
1. Permits are issued (except for the cases specified in subparagraph 1.10 of paragraph 1 of Article 21, paragraph 3 of Article 22, paragraph 2 of Article 29 and part one of paragraph 1 of Article 44 of this Code) for:
1.1. logging - logging ticket;
1.2. felling of forests by citizens with a volume of not more than 50 cubic meters of wood - an order;
1.3. harvesting resin, harvesting secondary forest resources and secondary forest use - a forest ticket.
A logging ticket, a forest ticket are the basis for the export of harvested forest products to intermediate timber warehouses indicated in the technological map.
The warrant is the basis for the export of harvested wood by citizens.
2. Permits are issued for one or more plots of the forest fund on the basis of the documents specified in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 40 of this Code, as well as in the cases specified in paragraph 3 of Article 22 (with the exception of felling, clearing, felling forests, carried out during the maintenance of quarterly clearings and fire breaks) of this Code.
3. Permits are issued:
3.1. felling ticket - by legal entities engaged in forestry;
3.2. order - by structural subdivisions of legal entities engaged in forestry (forestries);
3.3. forest ticket - by legal entities engaged in forestry, structural subdivisions of legal entities engaged in forestry (forestries).
4. A felling ticket, an order shall be issued within a calendar year and shall be valid for the periods specified in them, determined in accordance with paragraph 1 of Article 71 of this Code.
It is allowed to extend the validity period of a logging ticket, warrant in cases of logging in hard-to-reach areas of the forest fund, as well as under adverse weather conditions in accordance with paragraph 11 of Article 71 of this Code.
5. A forest ticket is issued to a forest user with a validity period of up to one year, with the exception of a forest ticket for harvesting resin.
A forest ticket for the harvesting of resin is issued to the forest user for the entire period of harvesting resin, but not more than 15 years.
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Article 41
1. One and the same plot of the forest fund may be provided to several forest users for forest use by different types with the definition for each forest user of the relevant conditions in the documents on the basis of which the right to forest use arises.
2. The provision of forest fund plots for timber harvesting is carried out by legal entities engaged in forestry, their structural divisions (forestries) in accordance with the forest management project (except for the cases specified in paragraph 7 of Article 36 of this Code) in the manner established by Article 42 of this Code , by issuing logging tickets or warrants.
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Article 42
1. For timber harvesting, a forest fund plot is provided by a legal entity engaged in forestry, its structural subdivision (forestry) for the period of validity of a logging ticket, warrant.
2. For harvesting resin, harvesting secondary forest resources and secondary forest use, a forest fund plot is provided by a legal entity conducting forestry, its structural subdivision (forestry) for the duration of the forest ticket.
3. A citizen, a legal entity, an individual entrepreneur wishing to obtain a forest fund plot for forest use (hereinafter referred to in this article as the applicant), with the exception of cases of acquiring standing timber at exchange auctions, send it to the legal entity conducting forestry, which is in charge of the requested a forest fund plot, its structural subdivision (forestry) a written application for granting a forest fund plot for forest management, which indicates:
3.1. the purpose of obtaining a forest fund plot;
3.2. surname, first name, patronymic (if any), place of residence of the citizen;
3.3. the name and location of the legal entity, individual entrepreneur, their registration number in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs;
3.4. types of forest use planned for implementation on the requested site, the volume of forest resources planned for harvesting, collection, withdrawal, use and the period for which the forest fund site is requested.
4. A legal entity conducting forestry, its structural subdivision (forestry), within the time limits established by the legislation on administrative procedures, consider the application and the materials attached to it, and in the absence of grounds for refusing to provide a forest fund plot for forest use, provide a forest fund plot by registration and issuance of a logging ticket, warrant, forest ticket to the applicant after he has paid the forest use fee.. [...]" (FOREST CODE OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS December 24, 2015 No. 332-Z, last amended by Law of the Republic of Belarus dated January 4, 2022 No. 145-Z (National Legal Internet Portal of the Republic of Belarus, 01/11/2022, 2/2865) [google translated])
FOREST CODE OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS December 24, 2015 No. 332-Z [google translated])
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