ENPI FLEG Regional Activities: WWF’s Progress, Achievements and Impacts
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ENPI FLEG Regional Activities:
WWF’s Progress, Achievements andImpacts
Elena KulikovaDirector of Forest Programme
WWF Russia
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Dissemination of EU Timber Regulation Through Facilitating High Level Discussions
• WWF Russia organized a Roundtable meeting in partnership with the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, with the support of the World Bank, on March 26, 2010 in Moscow
• The theme of the Roundtable was on efforts to improve the Russian forest legislation and the EU’s initiatives to combat trade in illegally harvested timber and its processing products
• More than 80 representatives from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova and the European Union participated in the Roundtable discussion.
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A number of following events were devoted to the new EU legislation at the regional level in Russia:
• Regional Forest Forum in Arkhangelsk, April, 2010; • Workshop in Forestry Department of Northwest Federal
District, Saint-Petersburg, April, 2010; • Meeting of Committee for Natural Resources and
Environmental Protection, Council of the Federation, Kostroma, May, 2010, in partnership with the World Bank;
• Parliamentary hearings on development of voluntary forest certification in Russia, Committee for Natural Resources, State Duma, Moscow, May, 2010
• “Interles” Forestry Forum, St. Petersburg, June 2010• International Forum “Forest and Man”, October 2010,
Moscow• International Forest Forum, October 2010, St. Petersburg
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Dissemination of information about new legislation initiatives of the EU on combating illegal logging through facilitating
discussions in the region
Regional level, Arkhangelsk,Regional Forest Forum
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Further work on EU Timber Regulation
• Ministerial Council of Europe and the European parliament: approval EU regulations on wood products on October, 20, 2010
• WWF role: further informing the forest stakeholders on a matter of the European legislation and requirements for suppliers of wood products on the European market
• Decision on organizing the second roundtable in Russia devoted to EU timber regulations in April, 2011– TOR for methodological support of roundtable preparation– Official agreement with Federal Forestry Agency reached
• It is also can be considered as an additional regional event of ENPI FLEG Programme
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Work with Russian authorities and forest industry companies to implement FLEG actions
• Developing and piloting the state system of harvested timber accounting in Russia
• Pilot areas (North-West, Siberia, Far East) for approbation • Weak points in the state system• Existing international experience (Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine)
and experience of corporate business systems (including experience of voluntary forest certification)
• Connection with the new legislation of the European Union demanding verification of legal origin of timber
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State wood accounting system development and piloting Document Storage
(forest user)
1 copy
1 copy back
Interested control bodies
Logging site
(without accounting point)Accountant produce a document
(number of logs, destination)
Document (number of logs, destination)
Data on measurement - back
Accounting point
(logging site, road)• Accountant (measurement,
marking, report on data, document)
• Driver• Software program
Forest managementunit
DatabaseRF
Accounting point (forest user storage)
• Measurement and marking• Software program
Regional databaseLimited access
District forest management
unit
7
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Work with Russian authorities and forest industry companies to implement FLEG actions
• NPAC decision on September 15, 2010: proposal to hold an international seminar «Timber origin tracing systems in light of requirements of the European Union legislation»
• Timeline: the seminar will be conducted in March, 2011• Place: Arkhangelsk region which is chosen by Rosleshoz
as a pilot region• Host: IlimGroup company, one of the largest Russian
forest industry companies having its corporate wood tracing system and chosen by FFA for the state system testing
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FLEG Regional Activity in the Caucasus
• WWF Caucasus Programme Office: Regional Workshop on Transboundary Timber Flow: Problem Identification and Capacity Building Needs Assessment in the ENPI-FLEG Region on 17-18 November 2010
• More than 50 people from 7 countries including Turkey representing the states, private sector, NGOs and local communities
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Participants including:• Director General of the State Non-
Commercial Organization (SNCO) “Hayantar” (Armenia)
• Head of the Sector for State Supervision, Cadastre and Registration, Forest Development Department (Azerbaijan)
• Division Director, DG of Forestry, Ministry of Environment and Forestry (Turkey)
• Forest Officer, village Commmunity Forests, Nisporeni district (Moldova)
• Member of Board, The Foresters'
Association (Turkey)
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The Workshop was focused to:
• Assess the current situation with respect to transboundary timber trade in the ENA region
• Identify existing problems / weaknesses in terms of legislation, documentation, procedures and capacities, which create favorable grounds for wood smuggling and other illegal activities
• Elaborate concrete recommendations on how to resolve these problems
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The workshop resulted in specific recommendations including:
• further identifying the nature and scale of the problem• strengthening weaknesses in producer countries’ control
mechanisms • training relevant state officials (e.g. customs)• introducing / strengthening public monitoring by NGOs
and communities• encouraging companies and consumers voluntarily to buy
only legal timber• enhancing international cooperation on the issues
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Next steps:
• Training of state officials
• Promoting responsible wood purchasing policies by private companies and consumers
• Promoting international cooperation at all levels