This article is devoted to the study of legal norms providing the responsibility for acquisition, storage, transportation, processing of timber for marketing purposes, as-sessing the potential of forest resources, including the forest fund, timber stocks, the level of their losses due to the natural factors and factors of a criminal nature.
The main directions of criminal interests of organized crime in the territories of the country with the high forest resources potential are the illegal turnover of timber, which is caused by the shortcomings of current legal regulation in the sphere of forest management, uncertainty of the mechanism of state policy in the sphere of combating illegal circulation of timber, detection of illegal timber trafficking and rules for investigating the acquisition, storage, transportation, processing of wood in order to the market knowingly illegally harvested wood.