Therefore, NFA is mainly dependent on the allocations from the state budget (EU Twinning report on "Concept of state forest enterprise for Georgia", 2018). In parallel, Georgia is working on the elaboration of National Principles, Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management. All these efforts aim to strengthen forest policy planning and management, especially in light of Georgia's international commitment as well as national plans and priorities. However, this is only a beginning and much remains to be done on the ground: wood removals are far above sustainable levels and additional human and technical capacity and financia resources are needed to protect forests from illegal use, logging and grazing, to ensure that the impacts of logging are kept as low as reasonably practical, to restore degraded forest territories, and to ensure that tending operations are carried out at the appropriate time (Garforth, et al.,