On November 7, 2024, the meeting of the  Committee on Environmental Policy and Nature Management of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine discussed the issue of  implementation of the Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to the Forest Code of Ukraine on the National Forest Inventory”.The SFI project, which systematically supports the implementation of the National Forest Inventory in Ukraine (nfi.lisproekt.gov.ua/rs-inventory/), was invited to participate in the meeting.

In his speech, the National Coordinator Vitaliy Storozhuk emphasized the readiness of the SFI project during its new phase in 2024-2027 to further support and develop the  National Forest Inventory as a basis for strategic planning of forestry development, particularly  regarding the development of the state system of forest monitoring, the use of inventory data for planning forestry activities, the study of the prospects for the supply of wood based on the data of the national forest inventory.

The Committee on Environmental Policy and Nature Management indorsed the SFI-Project activities related to NFI and namely to the currently implemented remote-sensing based forest inventory (RS-Inventory) but noted the need for legal provisioning of the modern NFI approaches.