It includes areas with trees, including groups of growing, young, natural trees, or plantations that have yet to reach the minimum values for tree crown cover or an equivalent stocking level or minimum tree height as specified in Annex II, including any area that normally forms part of the forest area but on which there are temporarily no trees as a result of human intervention, such as harvesting, or as a result of natural causes, but which area can be expected to revert to forest;
Cuimsítear leis limistéir ina bhfuil crainn, lena n-áirítear grúpaí de chrainn óga nádúrtha atá ag fás, nó plandálacha nach bhfuil na híosluachanna do chumhdach mhullaí na gcrann nó leibhéal stocála coibhéiseach nó íos-airde na gcrann mar a shonraítear in Iarscríbhinn II bainte amach acu fós, lena n-áirítear aon limistéar ar cuid den limistéar foraoise é de ghnáth ach nach bhfuil aon chrann ann go sealadach mar thoradh ar idirghabháil dhaonna, amhail lománú, nó mar thoradh ar chúiseanna nádúrtha, ach ar féidir a bheith ag súil leis go ndéanfaidh sé foraois arís;