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This Presidential Regulation, consisting of 64 articles, creates the Ministry of Environment and Forests. It establishes the composition, duties and responsibilities of the above mentioned Ministry, entitled to organize governmental affairs in the field of environment and forestry; formulate policies in the field of sustainable forests and environmental conservation, management of conservation of natural resources and their ecosystems, enhancement of watershed support capacity and protection forests, sustainable management of forestry production, enhance the competitiveness of primary forest product industry, environment, pollution control and environmental damage, climate change impact control, forest and land fire control, social forestry and partnership as well as the reduction of damages, threats, and violations of environmental and forestry legislation, etc.