Legal Relationships to Woody Plants - 2nd updated edition

The book is the only one in the country to provide comprehensive practical legal advice to tree owners and managers, forest owners, citizens, environmental associations and municipal governments on how to exercise their rights and fulfil their legal obligations and how to get involved in tree protection. The authors draw on their many years of experience in the practice of permitting and supervising administrative authorities, in the activities of local government and in litigation, as well as on their extensive lecturing activities.

The second updated edition extends the comprehensive and practice-oriented treatise on legal relations to timber plants by the interpretation of recent amendments and particularly important recent decisions of administrative and civil courts. This is mainly an amendment to the permitting of felling of trees growing outside the forest for the purposes of construction projects and a change in public participation in the procedures carried out together with the so-called "public participation". a major amendment to the Building Act and an amendment to the amendment on felling of railway lines. Particularly important for the protection of forests in national parks is the so called. National Park Amendment to the Nature and Landscape Protection Act. Penalties for illegal felling and damaging of trees are affected by the new Act on Liability for Offences and the Procedure for Offences.

The book will serve nature conservation authorities and other administrative bodies, tree owners and managers, municipal governments and environmental associations that want to „ be in“ in paragraphs around trees, bushes, vegetation.