The issues of determining the size of illegal logging of forest plantations related to the use of methods, taxes and rates for calculating the cost of illegally harvested wood are considered. It is established that the legislator shows some inconsistency in adopting regulatory legal acts regulating these procedures. It was revealed that from 2014 to the present, there were three documents that established independent grounds for making the corresponding calculations. It is determined that, taking into account the rules of retroactive effect of the criminal law, all the specified normative legal acts should be taken into account in relation to acts committed before 31.12.2020, Government Decree No. 1730 of 29.12.2018 in its original version should be applied as providing the most favorable grounds for criminal prosecution.

illegal logging of forest stands, calculation of damage, size of illegal logging, environmental crimes, differentiation of responsibility.

Zabavko Roman Alekseevich – Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Criminal Law, Institute of Law, Irkutsk State University (1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation), AuthorID: 499780, ORCID: 0000-0002-5663-6230, ResearcherID: AAD-4666-2021, e-mail: zrairk@gmail.com

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