part of this surface is naturally regenerated by seeds andor vegetative regeneration legislative violations seem to be the major cause of illegal wood harvesting in romania for example fraudulent permit use registration of highquality wood as lowquality timber to avoid taxes false records on real harvested volumes evasion of controls and logging in pas as reported by neg there are problems with illegal economic activities such as illegal constmctions underlying illegal logging as well as a shortage of financial human and material resources to address illegal logging other more sectorspecific reports on mountain ecosystems for example have also been submitted to the cbd