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Landmark EU/Indonesia timber agreement now legally binding Following the European Union’s ratification of the landmark Indonesia/EU Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) last month, Indonesia yesterday (Thursday) confirmed the agreement through a Presidential Regulation. This VPA is one of the key components of Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) action plan which will ensure that only legally sourced timber and wood products are allowed onto EU markets from a VPA partner country. VPA ratification by both Indonesia and EU means that the bilateral treaty has now become official – and legally binding. Indonesia sadly has one of the world’s worst deforestation rates and lost about 28 million hectares of forest between 1990 and 2005. Illegal logging was so rampant that a 2007 UN report estimated 73-88 per cent of all timber logged in Indonesia was being illegally sourced. Read EIA consultant Mardi Minangsaris blog in full at eia-international.org/landmark-euindonesia-timber-agreement-now-legally-binding Image: Stolen ramin being transported in Indonesia in 2001 (c) EIA
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:40:01 +0000

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