VVNH to screen legality in timber trade chains

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VVNH to screen legality in timber trade chains

15/12/2006

Houtkrant news reported that the Dutch Association of Timber
Enterprises (VVNH) has been granted EUR240,000 by the Dutch Ministry of
Agriculture and Ministry of Spatial Planning, Housing and the
Environment (VROM) and a subsidy by the EU to investigate the legality
of timber trade chains.


The focus is on timber from Malaysia, Congo, Gabon and Cameroon with
the purpose to exclude illegally and not sustainably produced timber in
the near future. Reports said that Brazil, Guyana, Bolivia and China
would eventually be included in the screening. The move is part of the
Dutch government's action plan against illegal timber, aiming at
closing bilateral agreements with each of these timber producing
countries.

The Dutch government intends to increase the share of legal tropical
timber to 100% by 2010 in all its public procurements.

©ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report (Japan)