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1. EU Policy on Forest Law
enforcement and governance :
the EU FLEGT Action Plan,
recent developments
ENPI FLEG II Steering Committee
Minsk, 1 October 2013
Mathieu Bousquet
Head of Sector Environment, Energy, Transport,
Regional programmes Neighbourhood East,
DEVCO F3, European Commission
2. Forest – why important ?
1. For livelihoods: woodfuel, bushmeat, medicines,
cultural value
2. For national economies
3. For development: jobs, incomes for national
budget (exports, domestic market, woodfuel
business)
4. For climate: local desertification, erosion, flood
scale…
5. For ecosystem services: biodiversity, water,
climate change
3. Why fighting against illegal logging ?
Illegal logging has many negative impacts
Environmental damage: forest degradation & biodiversity
loss & contribution climate change
Social : on forest-dependent people
Economic : undermines livelihoods, reduces
competitiveness of legitimate forest industry, revenue losses
for Governments
undermines rule of law, fosters corruption
4. Demand from partner countries
Asia : Bali, 2001
Africa : Yaoundé, 2003
St Petersburg : Europe and North Asia, 2005
6. Setting an EU agenda for FLEG : the
FLEGT Action Plan
-Using the trade component (access to markets) as an
incentive : FLEG FLEGT
- Supporting technically and financially the efforts of our
partners (development & cooperation)
- Anchoring commitments in legally binding treaties : voluntary
partnership agreements (VPA)
-Key principles : respect country sovereignty, promote better
governance, transparency and stakeholder participation
7. FLEGT Action Plan : main objectives
Fight against illegal logging
Recognition that EU is part of the problem, as any
consuming market
Propose a blend of policy measures to tackle the issue :
demand side and supply side
8. FLEGT Action Plan : supply side
1.
Support to timber producing countries. Includes rechnical
and financial support to projects (ENPI FLEG I & II)
2.
Voluntary partnership agreements
3.
Support to national public procurement policies in timber
prudicing countries that favour legal timber
4.
Support to private sector initiatives and CSO initiatives in
partner countries
9. FLEGT licenses (not yet)
System development
Formal negotiations
Entering into negotiations
Preparation, in-country consensus building
Introduction to VPAs
FLEGT VPA partner
countries
September 2013
Laos
Honduras
Vietnam
Guyana
Malaysia
Thailand
Liberia
Indonesia
Cote d'Ivoire
Congo
Cameroon
Ghana
Gabon
C.A.R.
DRC
10. Already some tangible impacts
In Indonesia alone, a Chatham House study estimates that
about 160 million m3 was saved from illegal logging (20002006).
This represents about 7,8 million hectares of forests which
have been saved from serious degradation or destruction, or
slightly more forest than what the FAO estimates is lost
every year world wide, or
equivalent to 2,5 times the area of Belgium.
Efforts against illegal logging in Indonesia and Cameroon
between 2001 and 2006 resulted in :
Avoiding 1,6 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions (about 4% of
current annual global human-induced carbon emissions)
Avoiding tax losses of 4 billion US$
11. FLEGT Action Plan : demand side
National Procurement policies
Private certification schemes and codes of conducts
Transparency & accounting directives on forest investment
Adoption and entry into application of the timber regulation
12. The EU Timber regulation
Adopted in 2010, entered into application 3 March 2013
Focus on EU operators. Their obligations :
Due diligence = “operators” shall use procedures and measures called “due
diligence system” (DDS) to ensure that the timber they place on the market is
not illegal
Prohibition to place illegally harvested timber or timber products on the EU
market
Traceability = “traders” shall be able to identify their suppliers and customers
MS Competent authorities responsible for monitoring and
enforcing this regulation