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What Vietnamese businesses need to prepare

Under the FLEGT Action Plan, to export wood products to the EU, Vietnamese businesses must ensure that their products are made of materials, either domestically produced or imported, which meet FLEGT’s requirements in terms of legal and sustainable sources. These requirements are vital to Vietnamese wood exports to the EU market both at present and […]

VPA

A VPA is a legally binding trade agreement between the European Union and a timber-producing country outside the EU.  VPA aims: to guarantee that any wood exported from a timber-producing country to the EU comes from legal sources to help the partner country stop illegal logging by improving forest governance and regulation VPAs are voluntary […]

Negotiation progress

Organizational chart of the negotiation team on FLEGT/VPA in Viet Nam With Timber products making up 80% of Vietnamese export production, and Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT), the EU has set out legality requirements for timber and timber products imported into the EU. Vietnam and the EU have been officially negotiating the FLEGT/VPA […]