{"id":77665,"date":"2019-06-24T12:58:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T12:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/tropical-timber-imports-benefit-eu-deforestation-policies\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:51:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:51:02","slug":"tropical-timber-imports-benefit-eu-deforestation-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/tropical-timber-imports-benefit-eu-deforestation-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical timber imports to benefit from EU deforestation policies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Increasingly the twin concepts of \u201czero deforestation\u201d and \u201cembodied deforestation\u201d lie at the heart of European policy making, both in the public and private sector, in relation to the trade in commodities from tropical countries. This has significant implications for the tropical wood products trade with potential impacts throughout the supply chain, from the forest through to the final consumer.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Policy decisions taken in relation to the so-called \u201cAmsterdam Declarations\u201d and an imminent EC \u201cCommunication on Stepping up EU Action against Deforestation and Forest Degradation\u201d may be critical for the competitiveness of forestry operations and wood products in the European market, with wide-ranging, and unpredictable, effects filtering through into world markets.<\/p>\n

The effects on wood industry competitiveness will act on at least two levels: at forest level, in relation to other commercial users of the land; and in finished products markets - construction, furniture, packaging, and energy production - where wood products from different regions and with various sustainability assurances and labels compete with each other and a wide, and growing, variety of non-wood products.<\/p>\n

The two Amsterdam Declarations\u2014one on deforestation and one on \u201csustainable palm oil\u201d - were launched on December 7th, 2015 in the context of the Paris Climate Agreement and build on the New York Declaration on Forests\u2019 commitments.<\/p>\n

The two declarations have since been merged into one \u201cAmsterdam Declaration Partnership (ADP) strategy\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to the \u201cPartnerships For Forests\u201d - which acts as ADP secretariat\u2013 the aim is to achieve \u201cfully sustainable and deforestation-free agro-commodity supply chains in Europe by 2020\u201d. To date, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom, Italy and France have signed.<\/p>\n

The ADP strategy is intended to stimulate private sector commitment and progress on agricultural commodities associated with deforestation (such as palm oil, soy and cocoa) for which Europe has a significant market share.<\/span><\/p>\n

The commitment by eight national food and feed industry alliances and three European federations (Caobisco, FEDIOL and IMACE) to support 100% sustainable palm oil in Europe by 2020 is closely linked to the strategy.<\/p>\n

Encouraged by the signatories to the ADP strategy and numerous calls from NGOs and members of the European Parliament, in December 2018 the European Commission announced their intent to publish a Communication on stepping up actions on deforestation and degradation by June 2019 (now expected in July) following a wideranging consultation exercise.<\/p>\n

The ADP strategy and work towards the EU Communication provide further confirmation, if any were still needed, that the level of European consumption of all products linked in any way to deforestation will increasingly require assurances of the \u201csustainability\u201d of products.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, relative competitiveness and the direction of trade with the EU will, to a large extent, be dependent on the ability of different suppliers to adhere to the specific standards for \u201csustainability\u201d established for each commodity.<\/p>\n

In some ways, the introduction of the ADP strategy and the EU Communication, are a welcome intervention for the tropical timber sector. Prior to these measures, Europe\u2019s trade policy interventions to \u201cprevent deforestation\u201d focused almost exclusively on timber, as the most visible forest-related commodity. They have at times been restrictive, through procurement policies favouring specific certification models that are technically and financially challenging to implement in tropical countries. And they have generally neglected to consider the (often larger) role played by demand for other commodities to drive deforestation.<\/p>\n

The ADP strategy and EU communication do show that the scope of policy action in the EU has been broadened to include non-wood commodities.<\/p>\n

Although the ADP strategy does not itself address timber, it provides a platform for the sector to demonstrate the considerable efforts made to define and provide assurances of conformance to sustainable forest management standards worldwide, the leadership role to foster better forest governance through organisations like ITTO and initiatives like FLEGT, and the implementation of pioneering due diligence legislation like the EUTR.<\/p>\n

To recognise the powerful economic forces driving conversion from forest to commercial agriculture, the ADP strategy may provide a platform to argue for a levelplaying so that \u201csustainability\u201d standards for all \u201cforestrisk\u201d commodities in the EU market are as stringent as those imposed on timber products.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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