Conditions of the forest right of usufruct in the Algerian legislation

Abstract

If the Algerian legislature has included forest property among the state’s public property, according to Article 12 of the National Property Law 90/30, Article 74 of it also subjected the legal system of natural resources and wealth, patterns of their exploitation and the rules for their management, including forests, to the special legislation that applies to each of them. Forest Law No. 12/84 and its decrees are the first to be applied in the field of forest use and exploitation. And if Article 34 of the Forestry Law regulated what is known as the right of forest use (the right of forest use in some comparative forestry legislation), since the state's right to own forests as public property is burdened with usufruct rights for the benefit of a certain segment of the population. Our paper tries to shed light on this type of exploitation of public property, embodied in the use of forest property. Exposed to the content of this right, and how the Algerian legislature organized this kind of exploitation? Who is the group entrusted with this right? What is its legal nature? What are its conditions and controls? What is its scope?