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ISSN 1334-0565

 

YEAR: XLV.

ZAGREB, 21 NOVEMBER, 2008

NUMBER: 1.3.1/3.

 

 

OBLIGED TO NOTIFY DATA SOURCE

 

FORESTRY PRODUCTS AND FELLED TIMBER

THIRD QUARTER OF 2008

 

The total commercial timber production in both state-owned and privately-owned forests in the third quarter of 2008, as compared to the third quarter of 2007, increased by 13%. In the state-owned forests it increased by 13% and in the privately-owned forests by 8%.

 

 

1.   COMMERCIAL TIMBER PRODUCTION, THIRD QUARTER OF 2008

 

Unit of
measure

Manufactured quantities
VII. - IX. 2008.

State-owned forests

Privately-owned forests

 

 

 

 

 Wood in the rough

m3

1 127 773

28 037

Long coniferous wood

m3

180 756

4 772

Cord coniferous wood

m3

34 748

52

Long broad-leaved wood

m3

421 941

5 877

Cord broad-leaved wood

m3

302 802

8 383

Coniferous fuel wood

m3

3 576

77

Broad-leaved fuel wood

m3

183 950

8 876

Other wood in the rough, including
chopped wooden poles and stakes

m3

0

0

 

 

 

 

 Other forestry products

 

 

 

Nursery forest trees

'000 p/st

3 233

0

 

 

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

 

 

Source and methods of data collection

 

Data on forestry products and felled timber for the reference quarter have been obtained by collection and processing of the data for reporting units engaged in forestry and timber felling activity as defined in section A, class 02.01 of the NKD 2002. (NN, No. 13/03).

 

Data referring to state-owned forests have been collected by extracting data from the ŠUM-22/3M form for state-owned forests, while data for the private-owned forests have been collected by extracting data from the ŠUM/23/3M/Obrt (tradesmen) and ŠUM-24/3M forms (privately-owned forests).

 

Since 1998, data on forestry production and felled timber have been collected in accordance with the Nomenclature of Products and Services in Forestry – NŠPU 98 – with guidelines on methodology for quarterly reports on forestry activities (NN, No. 46/98).

 

 

Coverage and comparability

 

Reporting units, for which the ŠUM 22/3M report is submitted, are forest administrations of the public enterprise Croatian Woods and of other legal entities classified and into activities defined in section A Agriculture, hunting and forestry, and by division 02 Forestry, logging and related service activities according to the NKD 2002. (NN, No. 13/03), as well as legal entities classified into other activities, but engaged in forestry activities, logging and related service activities. Also, reporting units are tradesmen if engaged in the above mentioned activities, as well as owners of private forests, even if engaged in these activities for own account only.

 

Since 2007, data on privately-owned forests (ŠUM 24/3M form) have been collected by the Forest Extension Service for Privately-Owned Forests.

 

Since 1998, data on production of forest products have been collected on the basis of the Nomenclature of Forest Products and Services NŠPU 98 (NN, No. 46/98). The Nomenclature was made for the needs of forestry statistics. It is based on the List of Characteristic Products of the Commercial Timber Production compiled by the Eurostat (the Statistical Office of the European Union), and published as an integral part of the Manual for Economic Accounts of Agriculture and Forestry in November 1997.

 

 

Definitions

 

Long timber (of broad-leaved trees and conifers) includes logs, mining timber and other long timber.

 

Logs (of broad-leaved trees and conifers) are parts of timber intended for further processing by sawing, sometimes by cutting and peeling, as they have good physical and chemical characteristics, so they are intended to be industrially processed. It includes logs for cutting and logs for veneer and peeling.

 

Mining timber (of broad-leaved trees and conifers), having very good physical and chemical characteristics, is intended for various technical purposes. It is used for building and maintaining pits and shafts, that is, for constructing under ground and on the surface.

 

Other long timber (of broad-leaved trees and conifers) includes all kinds of wood suitable for mechanical processing, transmission-line and telephone-line pylons as well as other oval timber.

 

Stack wood (of broad-leaved trees and conifers) includes wood for boards (suitable for mechanical processing). Wood-pulp and tannin wood are, for their good chemical characteristics, suitable for chemical processing. Tannin wood is a material that, processed, gives tannin extracts.

 

 

Abbreviations

 

p/st                number of items (pieces/sticks)

m3                 cubic metre

NKD 2002.  National Classification of Activities, 2002 version

NN                Narodne novine, official gazette of the Republic of Croatia

'000              thousand

 

 

Symbols

 

0     value not zero but less than 0.5 of the cent of measure used