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The new 2030 Forest Strategy is triggering diplomatic clashes in the EU over who should be responsible for forest policy, as EU auditors voice concern on biodiversity loss. Europe\u2019s biggest timber nations lined up at an Austrian conference this week to reject a climate strategy proposed in Brussels to sustainably regulate how woodlands are managed.<\/em><\/p>\n

Resistance against legally binding EU proposals appears to be mounting. Forestry ministers from Germany, France, Finland, Slovakia and Sweden, as well as industry representatives declared after meeting in Vienna that the European Commission should steer clear of any rules that restrict national control over the continent\u2019s 640 billion euro (US$742 billion) timber business.<\/p>\n

\u201cForest policy rests in the hands of EU member states and that\u2019s how it should stay in the future,\u201d said Austria\u2019s Agriculture Minister Elisabeth Koestinger, who hosted the meeting, at a press briefing.<\/p>\n

The group sent a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen outlining their red lines. The European Commission\u2019s draft forest strategy in July laid the groundwork for a new suite of high-tech surveillance measures and rules to protect European forests \u201cunder increasing strain,\u201d while streamlining governance across all 27 member states.<\/p>\n

The EU\u2019s executive arm wants to expand woodlands by planting an additional 3 billion trees, even as it encourages more timber use to replace carbon-intensive concrete in construction.<\/p>\n

But ministers who convened in Vienna said the commission plan risks undercutting employment and depriving its economy of resources.<\/p>\n

Monitoring of forest inventories should remain the province of national governments, according to Koestinger.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly a variety of regional concepts can do justice to the diversity of European forests,\u201d said Felix Montecuccoli, an Austrian timber-industry lobbyist, in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis requires independent, national and regional forest policies.\u201d<\/p>\n

European Commission proposed a new law in July\u00a0on common forest-data collection and on national and regional forestry strategy plans. But Sweden, one of Europe\u2019s most heavily forested countries, fully disagreed with \u201cthe need\u201d for such strategic plans \u201con the EU level\u201d, which it saw as an attempt at \u201cincreased centralisation\u201d by EU institutions, according to an internal EU paper dated 27 September.<\/p>\n

\u201cForestry will not be subject to exhaustive rules from Brussels,\u201d Swedish prime minister Stefan L\u00f6fven said in Sweden\u2019s parliament last month.<\/p>\n

Austria said that the proposed EU strategic plans \u201cignore well-established national systems and tools\u2026 which leads to an increase in cumbersome and ineffective regulation,\u201d according to the internal EU documents.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But dissatisfaction has been more widespread than that. Overall, 11 member states have voiced reluctance on the EU\u2019s new forestry approach.<\/p>\n

In July, Austria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Sweden said in a joint letter that common obligations under a potential EU planning and monitoring law would bring an \u201cunprecedented administrative burden\u201d to member states and operators.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a new report by the European Court of Auditors, an EU watchdog, said on Monday 4 October that the EU\u2019s previous (2014-2020) forestry strategy and related policies had \u201climited impact\u201d on protecting biodiversity and addressing climate change.<\/p>\n

Data from recent years showed that the state of EU forests was deteriorating, even though the EU was increasingly referring to them as a \u2018carbon sink\u2019 in climate-change policy.<\/p>\n

The auditors\u2019 report identified weaknesses in enforcement of an EU regulation against illegal logging, both at national and EU level.<\/p>\n

It warned that the number of checks made by national authorities was low compared with the number of firms in the EU market.<\/p>\n

A 2020 EU commission report revealed that checks were made on just 0.43% of operators during the two-year reporting period.<\/p>\n

The Court of Auditors also slammed the commission for not analysing the quality of member states\u2019 checks based on different definitions of what \u2018illegal logging\u2019 was. And auditors suggested that the general use of remote sensing or acquisition of information, typically based on aerial photography and satellite data, could offer \u201cgreat potential for cost-effective monitoring over large areas,\u201d and help tackle the marketing of illegally harvested timber and timber products in the EU.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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