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EU FLEGT Update

EU FLEGT Update. Chatham House, London, 20 July 2006. The EU FLEGT Action Plan. The EU FLEGT Action Plan sets out supply- and demand-side measures to combat illegal logging and associated trade. Development co-operation including support for forest governance reform

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EU FLEGT Update

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  1. EU FLEGT Update Chatham House, London, 20 July 2006

  2. The EU FLEGT Action Plan The EU FLEGT Action Plan sets out supply- and demand-side measures to combat illegal logging and associated trade. • Development co-operation including support for forest governance reform • Public and corporate procurement policies • Private sector initiatives • Financing and investment • Use of existing legislation (eg. CITES) • FLEGT voluntary partnership agreements with wood-producing countries

  3. Recent developments • EU Council • European Parliament • New ITTA • Country level FLEGT consultations • EC development cooperation (TFBL, EDF) • Staff • Additional legislative options

  4. Council of the EU • FLEGT Regulation adopted and published Dec 06, governing EU implementation of the FLEGT licensing scheme. • Negotiating directives for FLEGT Partnership agreements, providing a mandate for the European Commission to negotiate with third countries • Conclusions associating the EU with the St Petersburg ENA FLEG Declaration (Jun 06)

  5. European Parliament • July 06 Resolution on FLEGT • Slow pace of implementation • Legal base of FLEGT Agreements • Further legislative measures

  6. ITTA 2006 • International Tropical Timber Agreement, successor to current agreement, agreed in Geneva Jan 06 • Simplified main objectives • References to combatting illegal logging • Forest trade statistics

  7. FLEGT Partnership consultations Informal consultations on FLEGT partnerships have taken place in potential partner countries: • Cameroon (DE), • Indonesia (EC), • Malaysia (NL) • Ghana (UK) • Meetings also in • Congo-Brazzaville (FR), • Gabon (FR)

  8. EC Development assistance In the context of partnership agreements: • Workshop to plan development assistance held in Brussels Dec 05. • Commission and MS have earmarked substantial resources around the FLEGT Action Plan. EC support includes: • Indonesia (€15m) • ACP region (€10m)* • Future Country/Regional Strategies • Env Nat Res Thematic Programme FLEGT theme

  9. Development assistance Outside partnership agreements: • A series of projects on forest governance themes funded 2005 (€16m) now ending first year: • Independent verification (ODI) • Strengthening forest governance and civil society (IIED, IUCN, EIA) • Facilitating trade in legal timber (TTF, WWF) • Support to regional FLEG processes (WB) • New 2006 FLEGT-related projects: • Facilitating trade in legal timber • Regional govt. initiative in Colombia • DG ENV study on illegal logging in Balkans and Caucasus

  10. Staff changes • Dutch seconded expert to Kuala Lumpur • French expert for Central African region in process • DG Development: Neil Scotland replaced by Julia Falconer • DG Environment: new DNE being recruited; FLEGT file now handled in International Directorate

  11. Additional Options • Brussels workshop – Chatham House • More formal public consultations likely • Internal consultations in Commission re form and level of ambition of report

  12. Remainder of 2006 • Start negotiations of FLEGT partnership agreements: • Plan development assistance to support partnership agreements inc. country strategies • Additional legislative options • Engagement with China • ENA FLEG East Asia FLEG

  13. Thank youFor further information see: http://europa.eu.int/comm/development/body/theme/forest/initiative/index_en.htm

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