While Poland has a national scheme to certify the origin of its own forest seeds, it is not a member of the OECD Scheme for the Certification of Forest Reproductive Material. Almost half of forest habitat protection is through laws designating national parks and nature reserves, most of the other half involves forests that the LP has designated as having a nature protective function. However, most “protective forests” are in mountainous areas and were designated for protection of soil or water, habitat protection accounts for about 4% of their area. Implementation of Natura 2000 implies a massive expansion of management effort in the protected forest area, yet as of September 2014, management plans for about 15% of the network area had been approved.