Oct 05, 2004. /Lesprom Network/. The government of the German province of Bavaria presented the modified forest law (previously adopted in 1975) and the law regulating the rights and obligations of the public servants employed in the national timber sector. The modified law is intended to define more distinctly the principles and rules of timber sector management. In line with the new law the state-owned forests will not be privatized. ‘The forests remain in the hands of the state. The additional financial resources to provide forest maintenance should be attracted by reducing the number of bureaucratic complications in the management system.’ Bavaria minister of timber sector said. Bavaria occupies 24% (2.5 million hectares) of the total territory occupied by forests, including 34% of the state-owned forests. In 2003 Bavaria produced 16 million cub m of round timber (32% of the total amount of the national timber production), 3.8 million cub m of softwood sawn timber (23% of the total amount of the national timber production).