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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Aide memoire of the second round of Honduras-EU VPA negotiations (Spanish)
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First civil society statement on Honduras’s VPA negotiations, January 2013 (Spanish)
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Letter from the Atlantida Platform to Honduras’s VPA negotiator (Spanish)
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New Indonesia Timber Legality Assurance System (SVLK) regulation (Indonesian)
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Feasibility study for independent forest monitoring in DR Congo (summary)
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Forest Governance in DR Congo: an NGO perspective
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Forest Watch Special – VPA Update June 2015
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Representation of the forest sector civil society in Cameroon
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Update on Cameroon’s VPA process from GTZ and REM
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Civil society counter-brief on the Congo Brazzaville-EU VPA
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Civil society declaration on participation in Cameroon’s VPA process
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