The aim of this study is to investigate and compare the features of Legal regulations, governing National forest management of Member States of the European Union. The object of analyses was legal regulations in the following 17 countries of European Union: Ireland, Austria, Czech, Denmark, Great Britain, Estonia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Lithuania, France, Slovakia, Slovenia, Finland, Sweden and Germany. The following methods of analyses were used in the study: document analyses, comparative analyses, historical and logical methods. The result of the study shows that, Legal regulations governing National forest are reflected in the national forest law. Legal principles, which are not exclusively stated in the basic law, are in details mentioned in legal acts related to forest. The legal principles are not at the same level explicit in all EU countries, but are the most similar between countries of the same forest management type.