Rights and duties of a forest owner

74 10. RESUME a NÁZEV PRÁCE V ANGLICKÉM JAZYCE " RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF FOREST OWNERS" SUMMARY - ENGLISH Forests cover about a third of the territory of the Czech Republic and they are an important component of our environment, landscape elements and - considering their production and non-production functions - part of the life of every one of us. This study attempts to describe and explain the rights and duties of an owner of this special subject of ownership. Since it is necessary to protect forests for the above mentioned reasons, our law contains a number of legal regulations governing the rights and duties of forest owners which must be followed by every forest owner. It is one of the aims of this study to discuss the provisions of these regulations which apply to forest owners. At the beginning, this study discusses the basic data on the forests in the Czech Republic, then it proceeds to explain the term 'ownership', and describe the main differences and particularities between forest ownership and 'regular' ownership. A forest owner is significantly limited in the exercise of his/her ownership rights, particularly by special acts such as Act No. 289/1995 Coll. (Forest Act), Act No. 114/1992 Coll. (Nature and Landscape Protection Act), Act No. 326/2004 Coll. (Act on Plant Health Care), and other. This..