EUTR and FLEGT are causing market shifts
The European timber trade regulation EUTR and the FLEGT agreement concluded with Indonesia are causing market shifts to a certain [...]
September 24, 2020
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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 [...]
May 25, 2020
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EU organisations 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 [...]
May 21, 2020
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Indonesia’s timber legality system remains in force
Indonesia has rowed back on plans to weaken rules for the timber products it exports, as green groups warned the [...]
May 18, 2020
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Coronavirus: Indonesia ends timber legality rule
Indonesia’s trade ministry has scrapped a requirement for wood exporters to obtain licenses verifying their wood comes from legal [...]
March 30, 2020
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STTC Conference considers links between FLEGT licenses and forest certification
To rebuild share in the European market, the tropical wood sector must exploit emerging opportunities from the synergies between the [...]
December 10, 2019
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UK to extend timber legality requirements after Brexit
UK tropical and other timber importers were urged to evaluate the impacts for their businesses of a no-deal Brexit [...]
November 4, 2019
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Rising Dutch imports of FLEGT licensed timber
FLEGT licensing is helping importers to comply with EUTR, while the forest sector reforms and new procedures implemented during the [...]
July 2, 2019
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Dutch and Belgian importers’ views on FLEGT
Although the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) has narrowed the supply base for tropical timber imported into the EU, traders in [...]
July 1, 2019
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Europe’s “zero deforestation” policies: an opportunity for tropical timber?
Increasingly the twin concepts of “zero deforestation” and “embodied deforestation” lie at the heart of European policy making, both in [...]
June 17, 2019
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