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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Aide memoire of the 5th Ghana-EU Joint Monitoring Review Mechanism
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Aide memoire of the 6th Ghana-EU Joint Monitoring Review Mechanism
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Aide memoire of the 7th Ghana-EU Joint Monitoring Review Mechanism
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Civil society organisations raise concerns about slow progress of VPA implementation in Ghana
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Is Ghana’s FLEGT VPA grinding to a halt and failing to achieve improvements in forest governance?
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Real loss in stumpage values in Ghana’s forest sector (2003 – 2012)
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