Major goals of SSF

• Make forest management more profitable and increase the quality of forest-wood assortments, while considering the basic forest management principles:
  • Sustainability
  • Multifunctionality
  • Close-to-nature forest management
  • Create conditions for the establishment and development of the forest-wood chains and creation of green jobs
  • Contribute to promotion of wood and wood products
  • Increase the area of state-owned forests in the long term
  • Contribute to achieve objectives of the rural development policy, in particular about protection of farms and rural areas in the mountainous regions
  • Contribute to achieve nature conservation objectives, particularly regarding area, designated as Natura 2000 area and protected areas
  • Provide training of professional staff and support education and scientific research in the field of forests, forestry and wood-processing
  • Carry out the sale of standing timber in low volumes
  • Increase transparency in awarding contracts for forest work and sale of wood

Major activities of SSF

• Implementation of public tenders to get the contractors for carrying out all works in state forests, such as:
  • Logging and timber harvesting
  • Transportation of wood assortments
  • Constructing and maintaining forest infrastructure (except forest roads)
  • Implementation of protective and silvicultural works in forests and any other works that are necessary for providing social and ecological functions of forests
• Sale of timber (wood and forest-wood assortments)
• Operations that are directly or indirectly related to state forest land (regulating ownership and other property rights; trading in forest land, issuing approvals, easements )
• Establishment and maintenance of records of immovable property
• Forest certification
• Membership in EUSTAFOR
• Establishment of centres for collection or processing of wood
• Primary wood-processing (through Snežnik, l. l. c.)