Topic : FLEGT
The EU’s Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan represents the European Union’s flagship attempt to tackle the root causes of illegal logging. It sets out a series of measures, including a Regulation (the EU Timber Regulation) requiring companies to verify the legality any timber products they import to the EU.
A key element of the FLEGT Action Plan is a series of Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs). These agreements between timber producing countries and the EU aim to ensure that wood being exported to the EU is legal and that forest governance in the exporting country is improved. VPAs work by tackling the root causes of illegality, which include corruption and lack of clarity about land rights.
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Liberia’s Ebola lessons can help communities beat Coronavirus
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Indonesia’s response to Coronavirus threatens to increase illegal logging
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China’s forest footprint: time for action on the ground
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Actualités du RBUE – mars 2019 à mars 2020
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The public procurement policy on timber and timber products and supply of legal wood to the domestic market
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Supply of legal wood to the domestic market
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Bottlenecks to supplying legal wood to the domestic market in Ghana
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Noticias EUTR: marzo 2019 – marzo 2020
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GUIDE ON COLLECTING INFORMATION FOR MONITORING AND MEASURING THE IMPACT OF VPA-FLEGT FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN THE TIMBER INDUSTRY
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Challenges and opportunities of the EU-Vietnam Voluntary Partnership Agreement for women and civil society
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Forêts et Initiative pour la Transparence dans les Industries Extractives
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