1. Forestry Statistics Working Group February 2015, Luxembourg "Current and future requirements for forestry data– DG AGRI"
Tamas Szedlak
AGRI H4
DG Agriculture and Rural Development
European Commission

2. New EU
Forest Strategy
Strategy for forests and the forest sector: holistic view of forests and all related policies, addressing also the value chain.
Objective: support sustainable forest management and strenghten the coordination with Member States as well as the coherence of EU policies affecting forests
Ensuring that forests play a positive socio-economic & environmental role in the EU: rural development, added value products while delivering ecosystem services
Conclusions from the Agriculture Council in May 2014: the Strategy should be the key reference in EU forest-related policy development
Please find some general information on the new EU Forest Strategy in the first 5 slides 2

3. PRINCIPLES and 2020 OBJECTIVE
Sustainable forest management (forests)
Goods and services in a balanced way, ensuring protection.
Resource efficiency (value chain)
Contribution to rural development, growth & jobs
Global forest responsibility (international)
Beyond EU borders
2020 OBJECTIVE: To ensure and demonstrate that all forests in the EU are managed according to sustainable forest management principles. 3

4. NEW EU FOREST STRATEGY
8 LINKED PRIORITY AREAS
COORDINATION AND COMMUNICATION
Working together (coordination and communication)
Forests from a global perspective
CONTRIBUTING TO MAJOR SOCIETAL OBJECTIVES
Supporting our rural and urban communities
Fostering the competitiveness and sustainability of forest-based industries, bioenergy and the wider green economy
Forests and climate change
Protecting forests and enhancing ecosystem services
IMPROVING THE KNOWLEDGE BASE
Forest information and monitoring
Research and innovation
Strategic orientations for each of the priority areas (COM and MS). 4

5. 8 LINKED
PRIORITY AREAS 5

6. INTERINSTITUTIONAL AND NEXT STEPS
NEW EU FOREST STRATEGY
INTERINSTITUTIONAL AND NEXT STEPS
Conclusions from the Agriculture Council adopted in May 2014
Opinions from the Committee of the Regions and the Economic and Social Committee adopted in January and July 2014
EP to adopt an initiative report (scheduled for April 2015)
Preparation by 2015 of a multi-annual Implementation Plan (Council Conclusions request)
Mid-term review in 2018. 6

7. EU agriculture - Statistical and economic information
This annual report covers a wide range of subjects: the economic situation in agriculture, structures, trade, markets, financial aspects and rural development.
An introductory chapter gives an overview of the agricultural year. In a format that has now become standard, the tables provide an update to the tables that have appeared in previous reports.
Please find the link to the DG AGRI annual publication concerning agricultural statistics

8. 4.22.1.1 Basic forest resources
EU agriculture - Statistical and economic information Forestry related data
Basic forest resources
Area
Total area, Forests and other wooded land, and Forests
Ownership,
forests and OWL, private, public
Growing stock
Of forest and OWL, and FAWL
Net annual increment
Of FAWL (overbark)
Roundwood production
Fuelwood, industrial, total (underbark)
The above mentioned publication includes tables related to forestry:
The first concerns basic forest resources.

9. 4.22.3.1 EU external trade in forest products
Timber in the rough, other small round wood, cut or as particles
Sawn timber
Panels and sheets
Wooden articles
Paper stock/pulp wood
Paper and board
Cork and cork articles
EU external and intra-EU trade in timber and timber products by Member State (2012)
The second and third tables refer to EU external and internal trade.

10. Rural development programmes
Data needs for the preparation of the programmes, basic forestry information; area, production, economic, environmental and social – labour data (incl. ex-ante evaluation)
Data needs for monitoring
annual implementation report
Mid-term, ex-post evaluations
Data needs regarding rural development programmes for the period of

11. 4.1.6. Common Context Indicators (forestry related)
II Agriculture/Sectorial analysis
13 Employment by economic activity (1000 persons, % of total)
15 Labour productivity in forestry (EUR/AWU)
29 Forest and other wooded land (FOWL) (total and share of total land area)
III Environment/climate
31 Land Cover (share of forestry land, %of total area)
34 Natura 2000 areas (share of total forestry area, % of forest area)
38 Protected Forest (class and class 2 - %of FOWL area)
The chapter concerning Common Context Indicators includes the following forestry related indicators.

12. 4.1.6. Common Context Indicators (forestry related)
43 Production of renewable Energy from agriculture and forestry (from forestry; kToe)
44 Energy use in agriculture, forestry and food industry (agriculture and forestry kToe, use per ha (agriculture and forestry))

13. Greenhouse gas emissions
Monitoring and evaluation of the CAP of GHG emissions based on agri-environmental indicators and UNFCCC reporting
Implementing acts/guidelines will determine indicators and data needs
Focus will most likely be on agricultural emissions, no coverage of GHG emissions (carbon stock changes) from forestry (tbc)
Afforestation & deforestation data required for activities supported under RD
Climate change related data needs

14. Thank you for your attention!