Kyrgyzstan joined the ENA FLEG process at the 2005 international ministerial conference held in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation (21-25 November). The conference endorsed two multilateral documents: an International Declaration and an Indicative Plan of Action. On the basis of these two documents, participating countries are to develop their systems of fight with law violation in the forestry sector. After signing these documents, Kyrgyzstan expressed its readiness to work in this direction and to develop its own National Plan of Measures to combat illegal forest logging. Moreover the low introduced a five year ban on cutting, transportation, purchase, trade, logging, export and import of the specially valuable wood species (nut and juniper). This creates law enforcement issues and generally decreases managerial effectiveness.