Feb 09, 2006. /Lesprom Network/. The Ukrainian parliament has adopted the Forest Code regulating the use of forests, according to Ukrainian News. The code takes into account the relevant international decisions and Ukraine's obligations on protection of forests and ensuring inexhaustible and balanced use of forests. The code envisages regulating preservation of biodiversity, monitoring of forests, certification of forests and increase of the areas of forests in the country, and provides for fundamentally new procedures for classification of forests based on their functional designations. The code makes no provisions for performance of the functions of state management and regulation of business entities. According to the explanatory notes to the code, the code and the system of legal relations and economic regulation stipulated in it will facilitate stabilization of the development of forestry and strengthening of the ecological, social, and economic functions of forests, and create the necessary conditions for ensuring inexhaustible use of forests, development and restoration of forestry resources, creation of a network of protected forests, preservation of biodiversity, and reduction of the risk of a global climate change. The active Forest Code was adopted in 1994.