State aid for forestry and higher local-administrative units

The paper focuses on state aid for forestry through public corporations, especially financial resources provided from the budget of Regions as higher level of local-administrative units. Development of the current situation and situation in the provision of the public support at national level – through the Ministry of Agriculture is analyzed. Mainly data sources from the website of the regions as publicly available source of information are analysed. In terms of methodological approach is also important the approach to the evaluation of regional forest programmes for description of the analysed topic. The paper mentions some possible directions, which may take further development in the researched field. There is complex of legislatively, politically repressive and economically accessible, supportive and educational instruments of state and regional forest policy, which give many options, which are not used yet very much