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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Indonesia: JPIK demands revocation of legal timber certificates
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Definition of legal timber in Ghana
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Indonesia’s Timber Legality Assurance System under scrutiny
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EU NGO statement on the murder of Indonesian activist Indra Kailani
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Joint statement on Guyana-EU VPA, July 2012
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Experiences from the FLEGT/VPA process in Ghana and Congo Brazzaville
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Letter about illegal timber harvesting in published Guyana’s Stabroek News
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Forest governance in Ghana – an NGO perspective
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Letter from Amerindian People’s Association to Guyana Commissioner for Forests
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Forest Governance Learning Group update, June 2008
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LoggingOff slideshow introducing the EU FLEGT
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