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SUMMARY: EU has made a series of legislative acts by which the control
of trade of wood and wood based products is introduced, all in order to ensure
the legality of these products. The basis of this control system is placing the responsibility
for the legality of these products on the companies (“operators”)
that are first to place wood and wood based products on the EU market. In
order to secure themselves from the risk of placing illegal products on the
market the operators should develop a due diligence system by which the legality
of the chain of custody of these products would be controlled. For operators
that do not have sufficient capacities to develop their own due diligence
system the EU is set to help them by assigning monitoring organizations to develop
national due diligence systems. Basic elements of the due diligence systems
are access to information, risk assessment and risk mitigation. This
control system is defined by the Timber regulation (EC, 998/2010), which is
valid from March the 3rd, 2013. The European Commission has made a commitment
do define the specificities of the system by June 3rd, 2012.


In order to simplify the control of chain of custody, the EU endorses bilateral
voluntary partnership agreements (VPA’s) with partner countries for
which exists a medium or high level of risk of illegal logging. Such agreements
encompass border control of origin of wood or wood based products which
are exported from the partner county to the EU. The core of every VPA is the
definition of the legality of wood, which encompasses the respective legislative
framework and a series of chapters which serve as a basis for field audits.
In order to broaden the acceptance of VPA’s the European Commission in cooperation
with many international organizations promotes building connections
between the VPA’s and voluntary certification systems in forestry.


It is expected that without spreading of VPA’s to China and Russia the current
partner countries will have bare an increase in timber prices of 70% by
2020. Within the same time period it is also expected that the production of
roundwood in developed countries will increase by 4%, and that it will decrease
by 8% in the developing countries. Even a broad expectance of VPA’s
cannot ensure the success of implementation of the Timber regulation, because
the control of legality of wood can be circumvented by trading it with EU via a
third country that does not have a VPA. After its accession to the EU the Republic
of Croatia will have to develop its own due diligence system, in which special
care should be attributed to wood coming from private forests and to
imported wood. If Hrvatske šume Ltd. continues on to be FSC certified, the
control of legality of wood coming from state owned forests will be simplified,
and will mostly fall under the already existing “controlled wood” standard.


Key words:Illegal timber trade, EU FLEGTAction plan, Timber regulation,
due diligence