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Southeast Asia marks progress in combating illegal timber trade

Representatives from eight member states of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) shared their achievements in developing reliable timber legality assurance systems at a workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia from 6-8 December 2016. Indonesia shared its success in becoming, in November, the world’s first country to issue FLEGT licences through a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) with […]

TLAS Workshop 2014 Vientiane Lao PDR

4th sub-regional training workshop on Timber Legality Assurance held on 22-24 October 2014 in Vientiane Lao PDR. The participants in the workshop included business and government officials from Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, as well as observers and resource people. The objectives of the workshop was to enhance the […]

Final Workshop

This presentation is a final review workshop building relationships with business associations and media agencies to engage in Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) to provide information on FLEGT and the related issues, covering the experiences and lessons learnt. The presentation was conducted by the Center for Education and Development (CED) Hanoi, 13th August 2013. […]

Peer Learning Workshop in Binh Dinh

On Friday the 26th June 2015, the Centre for Education and Development (CED) conducted a peer learning workshop for enterprises of the timber industry on Forestry Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade-Voluntary Partnership Agreement (FLEGT-VPA) at Seagull Hotel, Quynhon, located in the Binh Dinh province. Presentation by, Vice Chairman, Forest Products Association (FPA), Mr. Le Vy on […]