Recognition of doctrinal competence should be confronted with the practice of its functioning in the regulation of administrative law. In this context, it is now interesting to develop the regulation competence of forest administration. First of all, we are dealing here with a clear backrest competence in the many related concepts synonymous with it. Of course, in terms of the concept of functionality related to the competence, such as objective task, issue, the scope of activities of government departments, property, forms of administrative action. The whole system of functional relationships between them then gives the opportunity to derive the necessary generalizations. Among them is revealed especially the demand for transparency and improved administrative competence, which also applies to the forest administration.