Ghana - Apply for License to Cut or Grow or Take or Work or Remove Forest Produce from Forest Reserve

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Procedure

Apply In-Person:

1. To Apply for License to Cut/Grow/Take/Work/Remove Forest Produce from Forest Reserve in Ghana, the applicant has to approach the Forestry Commission of Ghana. Contact link
2. Make sure that his/her have all the documents listed in the “Required Documents” section of this page.
3. Please refer to the fees details in the “Fees” section of this page.
4. Identify the area you intending to undertake a forest project or activity for the cutting, taking, working or removing of forest produce from a forest reserve or community forest.
5. Identify the true owners of the land in which you intend to carry out your forest activities by conducting due diligence.
6. Upon identifying the true land owners negotiate, execute an agreement with the land owners and compensate them accordingly for purposes of allowing you carry out your forest projects or activities on their intended land.
7. Execute Forest agreement with the government forest agency/Authority relating to reserving the forest or environmental impact assessment, to access which activities is likely to have or impact on the forest reserves. This license serves a regulatory purpose in order to regulate the usage and management of a forest reserve
8. Survey the area of the land on which you intend to carry out your forest activities and have deed plan.
9. Upon executing that forest agreement, apply for the forest cutting, taking, working or removing of forest produce from a forest reserve or community forest license from commissioner department of Forestry Commission of Ghana if the same had not been done before.
10. The Forestry Commission of Ghana shall invite applications through a fair, open and competitive process for selecting the best candidate to carry out the forest activities.
11. Upon the commissioner granting the best applicant the forest cutting, taking, working or removing of forest produce from a forest reserve or community forest license, the applicant precede to cut/remove/work/take/grow the intended forest projects or activities.
12. The Processing time for this procedure is 1 month.

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Required Documents

• Application form
• Valid prospecting license
• Submitted returns
• Map of desired area and Location
• Work program for the forest operations
• Project brief plan
• Executed form II
• Adequate financial competence of the applicant.
• The original and two copies of the application.
• Proof of payment of and of deposit for cost of experts

Office Locations & Contacts

Forestry Commission of Ghana
Address: Aggrey St, Accra, Ghana
JQRR+38 Accra, Ghana
Contact number: +233302401210
Location link

Corporate Headquarters
P. O. Box MB 434 Accra-Ghana
Contact number: +233 302 401210, 401227, 401216, +233 302 7010031 / 3 / 4, +233 302 401197 (fax)
Email id: [email protected]

TIDD Accra Office Lines
Contact number: +233 302 409339, +233 302 7010031 / 3 / 4, +233 302 401209 (fax, Accra)
Email id: [email protected]

Wildlife Division
P. O. Box M239 Accra-Ghana
Contact number: +233 302 401210, 401227, 401216,, +233 302 7010031 / 3 / 4
+233 302 401249 (fax)
Email id: [email protected]

Forest Services Division
P. O. Box GP 257, Accra-Ghana
Contact number: +233 302 401210, 401227, 401216, +233 302 7010031 / 3 / 4,
+233 302 401215 (fax)
Email id: [email protected]

Resource Management Support Centre
P. O. Box 1457 Kumasi-Ghana
Contact number: +233 3220 28525/ +233 3220 22376/ +233 3220 22377
+233 3220 22687 (fax)
Email id: [email protected]

Forestry Commission Training Centre
P. O. Box 6424, Kumasi – Ghana
Contact number: +233 3220 29540/ +233 3220 21668/ +233 3220 21667
+233 3220 29541 (fax)
Email id: [email protected]
Contact link

Environmental protection agency (EPA)
Address: HR22+H42, Accra, Ghana
Postal address: P.O .Box M.326 Accra, Ghana
Email id; [email protected]
Phone number: 0302 664697-8/ 0302 662690
Location link
Contact link

Eligibility

• Applicants should be persons intending to undertake a project or activity in forest business in Ghana.

Fees

• Registration Fee 500,000 GHS
• Forest rent 50,000 GHS per km2 per annum

Validity

• License is valid for a period of 1 year and renewable thereafter.

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Processing Time

• The Processing time for this procedure is 1 month.

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Required Information

• Legal name of company
• Specify mode of transport of waste (road, air ,rail, water, others)
• Other name used (include trade name, doing business-as, previous names, etc.)
• Mailing address of company
• Chemical name/waste
• Disposal condition of chemical/ waste
• Method of disposal
• Physical state of chemical waste
• Location of disposal
• Physical address: (include legal name , number, street , city and district)
• Contact detail(telephone /fax number, email address)
• Contact person’s information (legal name/email/telephone)
• Name, address and nationality of the applicant.
• In case of a body corporate, the corporate name, registered office address and country where it is incorporated.
• Names, addresses and qualifications of potential principle contractors and supervisors to be employed for the project.
• Description and location of the forest project, amount of investment capital, skills to be used, site and construction plans.
• The estimated date of completion of the project.
• The description of safety programmes, equipment and plans for the protection of occupational health, industrial safety and environmental protection during regular construction operation as well as contingency plans for accidents, natural disasters and emergencies;
• A Tax Identification Number for new investors and tax clearance certificate for existing companies.
• Declaration by the applicant.

Need for the Document

• For the purpose of carrying out forest Reserve, the National Forestry Authority or any responsible licensing body, should provide guidelines and training to the community, as the law provides.

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