FLEGT-achievements

ETTF’s perspective

EP Bruxelles

9 October 2012

ETTF organises 10 national federations

covering approx. 90% of import of tropical

timber

• Forest Law Enforcement VPA’s

• Governance Trade EUTR

VPA’s

Closed Export m3 to ETTF (2011) logs & lumber

- Cameroun 484k

- CFA 24k

- Ghana 49k

- Indonesia 41k

- Liberia 23k

- Congo 94k

VPA’s

Negotiations Export m3 to ETTF (2011) logs &lumber

- DRC 88k

- Gabon 94k

- Guyana 4k

- Honduras p.m.

- Malaysia 246k

- Vietnam p.m.

Total import tropical logs & lumberETTF 2011 (x 1000)

• Africa 991k• Asia 309k• Latin America 175k

1.475k

Of which• VPA’s closed: 715k• VPA’s negotiations: 432k

Plywood: China, Indonesia

Furniture: Thailand, Vietnam

VPA’s

FLEGT-licensed timber delivered?

- so far 0%

- near future?

- Indonesia and Ghana ?

VPA’s

• Result of 10 years work seems poor

• BUT

• VPA – negotiations have been a major driver for change

VPA’s

• Development TLAS

• Involvement stakeholders

• Serious enforcement

• Capacitybuilding

EUTR

• Work done under VPA’s basis for implementation of EUTR

• Importers to exercise due diligence

• Assess risk of illegality

EUTR

• Countries with working TLAS constitute lesser risk

• Nevertheless: timber trade hopes to see as much FLEGT-licensed timber as possible

EUTR

• In the meantime ETTF and it’s members invest substantially in the implementation of the EUTR

• Call to EC:

- speed up VPA negotiations

- take care of a strict implementation of the

EUTR in all the MS

VPA / EUTR

- Bridge VPA and EUTR

- Give TLAS accepted in VPA negotiations a (semi)greenlane to Europe