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.

De la nécessité de prendre en compte les synergies et l’interdépendance des processus FLEGT et REDD+ en République du Congo

Le Congo doit respecter ses obligations envers l’APV et mettre fin à l’illégalité dans le secteur forestier

Rapport de l’atelier de l’analyse du ERP-D Sangha Likouala par les OSC locales de la Sangha

Position Paper of the community and forest platform on the renewal of VPA-FLEGT between Cameroon and the european Union

Social Agreement between Lofa County and Alpha Logging, FMC A, 2017-22

Echange d’expériences et développement des compétences sur la participation de la société civile à la négociation et à la mise en oeuvre de l’APV-FLEGT

Note de position de la GDRNE sur l’APV – Réunion du CCMO du 09/12/2016

Third national consultation workshop on VPA/FLEGT in Vietnam

Fern cautiously welcomes the EU and Vietnam Voluntary Partnership Agreement

Le regard sur la gouvernance forestiere en Côte d’Ivoire

VPA update November 2016 – Republic of Congo

VPA update November 2016 – Vietnam