Undertake due diligence: The core of the ‘due diligence’ notion is that operators undertake a risk management exercise so as to minimise the risk of placing illegally harvested timber, or timber products containing illegally harvested timber, on the EU market. The three key elements of the “due diligence system” are: Information: The operator must have access […]
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 […]
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Impacts of the VPA
VPAs are among the key tools of the EU Forest Law Enforcement, Government and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan of 2003. As of mid-2016, 15 countries were negotiating or implementing VPAs with the EU. Vietnam and the EU began negotiating the VPA in 2010. On 11 May 2017, Vietnam and the EU initialed the VPA. Initialing […]
Communication
Media issues Download: MediaIssues-10032015_All_En.pptx CED Communication plan Communication action Plan. Jul 15 Press Release FLEGT English
FLEGT Action Plan
The EU published the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan in 2003. The Action Plan sets out a range of measures available to the EU and its member states to tackle illegal logging in the world’s forests. Reasons for introducing the FLEGT Action plan: Illegal logging has a devastating impact on some […]