1. ETTF’s perspective EP Bruxelles 9 October 2012
FLEGT-achievements
ETTF’s perspective
EP Bruxelles
9 October 2012

2. ETTF organises 10 national federations
covering approx. 90% of import of tropical
timber

3. Forest Law Enforcement VPA’s
Governance Trade EUTR

4. VPA’s Closed Export m3 to ETTF (2011) logs & lumber - Cameroun 484k
- CFA 24k
- Ghana 49k
- Indonesia 41k
- Liberia 23k
- Congo 94k

5. VPA’s Negotiations Export m3 to ETTF (2011) logs &lumber - DRC 88k
- Gabon 94k
- Guyana 4k
- Honduras p.m.
- Malaysia 246k
- Vietnam p.m.

6. Total import tropical logs & lumber ETTF 2011 (x 1000)
Africa k
Asia k
Latin America k
1.475k
Of which
VPA’s closed: 715k
VPA’s negotiations: 432k
Plywood: China, Indonesia
Furniture: Thailand, Vietnam

7. VPA’s FLEGT-licensed timber delivered? - so far 0% - near future?
- Indonesia and Ghana ?

8. VPA’s Result of 10 years work seems poor BUT
VPA – negotiations have been a major driver for change

9. VPA’s Development TLAS Involvement stakeholders Serious enforcement
Capacitybuilding

10. EUTR Work done under VPA’s basis for implementation of EUTR
Importers to exercise due diligence
Assess risk of illegality

11. EUTR Countries with working TLAS constitute lesser risk
Nevertheless: timber trade hopes to see as much FLEGT-licensed timber as possible

12. EUTR
In the meantime ETTF and it’s members invest substantially in the implementation of the EUTR
Call to EC:
- speed up VPA negotiations
- take care of a strict implementation of the
EUTR in all the MS

13. VPA / EUTR - Bridge VPA and EUTR
- Give TLAS accepted in VPA negotiations a (semi)greenlane to Europe