Codes
This page contains links to different codes related to tree management.
International codes
- European Tree Pruning Standard, EAS 01:2021 (2021, PDF)
- European Tree Cabling & Branching Standard, EAS 02:2022 (2022, PDF)
- European Tree Planting Standard, EAS 03:2022 (2022, PDF)
The following standards are also important but aren't available for free, you have to buy them.
- ANSI A300 Tree Care Standards, a complete set of tree management standards, recognized in the US and Europe.
Soviet codes
- Gosstroy rules for green space management, defines the rules of management, pruning procedures etc. The same document was used as a model by most ex-soviet republics, probably Armenia too. We still need to find a better and more authoritative source for Armenia.
Armenian codes
- Law of the Republic of Armenia on Plant World (from 23.11.1999), in Armenian.
The main framework law, obliges municipalities to ensure the protection and integrity of natural plant communities. - Forest Code of the Republic of Armenia (from 24.10.2005), in Armenian.
This is about forest, but often its articles are applied by analogy to urban plantations. - Law of RA on tariffs for compensation of damage to animal and plant world.
Establishes fines for damage to vegetation and the formula for their calculation. Unfortunately, the fines are very low and are established only for damage "up to the degree of growth cessation", i.e. plant death. Simple damage, in which the plant continues to live, including barbaric topping, is a violation, but does not provide algorithms for calculating the fine.
Decisions of the Yerevan City Council:
- 2/4-4-N from 18.11.2009 (PDF, HY/EN/RU) on the approval of the rules for the preservation and use of green spaces of general use in the city of Yerevan.
- 36N from 18.11.2009 (PDF, HY/EN/RU) almost identical to the one above, not sure why.
- 337N from 12.02.2021 (PDF, HY/EN/RU) adds new rules on protecting trees during construction works.