FAO applauds Indonesia’s success with FLEGT licensing scheme

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In a press statement posted on its website FAO welcomed the first shipment of FLEGT-licensed timber to the European Union (EU). Indonesia is the first country to have successfully concluded all the requirements of the EUTR and through this has contributed to global efforts to stamp out illegal logging and promote the legal timber trade says FAO.

The FLEGT license opens up a ‘green lane’ for timber being imported to the EU, one of the world's largest consumers of timber products.

FAO writes, “Indonesia’s FLEGT-licensing scheme is based on the country’s Sistem Verifikasi Legalitas Kayu (SVLK), or timber legality assurance system, which ensures that timber has been harvested, transported, processed and traded according to Indonesian law.

Under the scheme, all wood-based product types listed in a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) between Indonesia and the EU and directly exported to European markets must now be accompanied by a FLEGT license issued by an Indonesian licensing authority. In turn, importers can place it on the market with no additional checks.”

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