EU’s deforestation-free regulatory proposal sparks intense debate
Intense negotiations are ongoing as the draft EU law on "deforestation-free" and "forest degradation-free" products, published by the [...]
March 8, 2022
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EUTR and FLEGT to become UK domestic legislation
The Office of Product Safety and Standards has issued guidance staring that from January 1, 2021, Great Britain (England, Scotland [...]
November 20, 2020
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EUTR and FLEGT cause market shifts in the tropical wood market
The European timber trade regulation EUTR and the FLEGT agreement concluded with Indonesia are causing market [...]
September 29, 2020
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European organisations call for FLEGT measures to be extended and deepened
While there was broad support for the FLEGT process and the EUTR, there was also a call for the FLEGT [...]
June 3, 2020
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EU organisations to reaffirm their support for FLEGT and EUTR
Feedback received by the EC on their “fitness check” of the FLEGT and EUTR regulations indicates a high degree of [...]
June 1, 2020
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Indonesia’s timber legality system remains in place
Indonesia has rowed back on plans to weaken rules for the timber products it exports, as green groups warned the [...]
May 26, 2020
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STTC Conference to consider links between FLEGT licenses and forest certification
To rebuild share in the European market, the tropical wood sector must exploit emerging opportunities from [...]
December 20, 2019
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Dutch imports of FLEGT licensed timber are on the rise
FLEGT licensing is helping importers to comply with EUTR, while the forest sector reforms and new [...]
July 15, 2019
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Traders in Belgium and the Netherlands support combined FLEGT and EUTR licenses
Although the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) has narrowed the supply base for tropical timber imported into [...]
July 10, 2019
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EU and Vietnam ratified VPA-FLEGT
EU FLEGT informed that the EU and Vietnam had ratified a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) on [...]
May 20, 2019
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