Its role includes providing up-to-date information for the formulation of policies, rules and regulations that ensure sustainability and governance for the sector. In its work of planning and fostering research into forests, protected areas and wildlife, SINFOR's priority is to seek research opportunities that can be identified in national plans and strategies, such as the ENCTI, and strategic plans for each of the member institutions and other initiatives relating to the sector.

Under the LAS, the private forestry-sector actors include those who, for profit, manage or produce the raw material, extract it from the forest, transport, process and place it on the market, and engage in its export and import.

Given the diversity of organisations involved and the range of their commercial activities, several classifications have been created. The Tax Code classifies them as: (i) natural persons; (ii) legal persons, which includes professional partnerships and commercial companies, cooperatives and associative enterprises and, in general, associations or entities that under public or private law have the status of legal persons; and (iii) entities, communities, organisations (Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples of Honduras, community groups) or legal transactions that constitute a functional or asset unit, even if they do not have a legal personality.

Another category is that arising from the number of persons working at each enterprise: forestry microenterprises, most of them set up as family businesses, employ a maximum of four people; small forestry enterprises employ 5-10 people; medium-sized forestry enterprises employ 11-100 people; and large forestry enterprises have over 100 employees.

The LFAPVS establishes three categories of company: a primary forest product company, that carries out the initial processing of the roundwood or any other timber or non-timber raw material sourced from the forest; a secondary forest product or processing company, that processes products from a primary forest product company; lastly, the timber or timber-product yards, that place the various timber products on the market.

It should be noted that the above description applies only to the industry that uses pine timber; in the case of broadleaved timber, on the date of entry into force of this Agreement, no primary forest product companies are registered or operating in Honduras. Furthermore, the timber extracted from the forest is generally in the form of roughly squared wood rather than roundwood, because it is squared in the forest and hauled to collection points for onward transportation by motorised vehicles to the secondary forest product companies or timber yard for sale. Stockpiles or collection centres are by definition places where timber products are stacked for subsequent transfer, with no change in their ownership. In contrast, timber yards are places where yard owners buy timber products from their suppliers and sell them to their customers.

In its routine inspections, and thanks to the social oversight reports from the CCFs, the ICF will regularly monitor any changes in the forestry production chain, including pine and broadleaved forests, forest plantations or scattered trees outside forests, in order to prevent the occurrence of any forestry activities that are not covered by the LAS. If in the future there are changes in the organisation of the forestry sector as a result of the review of the applicable legal framework, the LAS will be adapted to ensure that all sources of timber are covered.