The elaboration of the concept of integrated state forest management is in progress, done by the Forestry Directorate of MNV Zrt. (Hungarian National Asset Management Ltd.). As an organization that provides safeguarding of professional interest, the Hungarian Association of Forestry considers the commitment on basic professional political questions important – while it wants to help the elaboration of the idea.

Thus we agree with all the proposals that
- serve the forest management that is sustainable and for public benefits,
- make the profit accessible while enhance the quality and value of the forests,
- provide wood for the national economy, as a resource of renewable raw materials and energy,
- serve the realization of protecting and public welfare function of forests,
-  contribute to make the state forest management more effective,
- conserve the jobs of engineers, technicians, physical workers and entrepreneurs whose activity is useful for the forest management,
- realize the above mentioned points basically without budgetary support, in the form of self-financing system, as a budgetary payer of net several billion forints.

From our point of view, the primary objective is to clearly draw up the mission of state forest management, to disclose the resources of the affiliates and configuring their integrated operation, and to consolidate their management.

We consider the followings the mission of state forest management:
- to manage the yield and services of the state forests sustainably and in the general interest;
- to contribute to the goals of rural development,
- to create and keep jobs,
- to contribute to the costs of the realization of national aims, as the result of effective and economical state forest management.

We consider these to be realizable in the form of a national forest management organization that is able to perform the tasks of the rural development that is the responsibility of state forest management, by exposing the resources, and by creating professional and economical operating standards.

These goals are realizable in the form of the existing state forest management organization, so we do not think that the merging of state forestry organizations is justified or timely, because:
- the management of every state forestry organization is effective,
- they operate without budgetary support, whereas they are budgetary payers,
- the merge would be disadvantageous to the exposing of resources, and the coercion of exposing the resources would decrease in the merged forest managements,
- in the existing state they are able to perform their tasks in the general interest, to perform the tasks of the rural development, and to meet the requirements of the EU and of the government,
- in those areas and local governments where the merging would make them to be at a disadvantage, significant professional, social and political dissatisfaction is expected,
- the merging would create tension mainly amongst the professionals with higher educational degree, but it would also put the uneducated workforce and the public projects at a disadvantage,
- whereas it is proven that the merging of organizations results only in a one-time expense-saving.

The merging of organizations is also needless in professional points of view, because:
- the forestry authority values the professional work of every forestry organization to be at a high level – continuously since their formation,
- the organizations perform significant public duties (park forests, forest railways, ecology centres, forest schools, etc.) to the satisfaction of the locals,
- besides the professional forestry work, they perform significant nature protection activities, and they completely meet the requirements of nature protection duties in the state forests, in the form of asset management
- suiting to the purpose of the New Hungary Rural Development Program they are organic parts of the realization of rural development programs.

The future stability of the forestry organizations can also be assured in the existing form. The economical differences due to geological and natural factors can be balanced with the re-arrangement of incomes by the owner on his own authority. Thus the economical vulnerability of organizations with weaker abilities, but importance in the rural development, can be decreased.

The effects of the strongly debated re-arrangement of the state forest management in 1970 are still a vivid memory of elder professionals. At this far distance of time as we have analysed the events, we believe that the government should only decide on the future forest management after an accurate impact study.

We think that a law should be passed about the state forests and their management in the spirit of the National Forest Program. During the preparation the forming of a national forest management organization of public interest should be considered, on the basis of the actual state forest management system.  The basis of this is the fact that the state forest organizations and the forest asset they manage are classified by the Asset Act as a 100%, permanent state asset.