(d) Recognizing the importance of timber and related trade to the economies of timber producer countries

Table 5 Reform programmes for lifting timber sanctions (Committee to Review Sanctions on Log and Timber Trade)

(g) Taking into account the linkages of the tropical timber trade and the international timber market and wider global economy and the need to take a global perspective in order to improve transparency in the international timber trade

(b) Providing a forum for consultation to promote non discriminatory timber trade practices

(e) Information supplied by members on their progress towards the establishment of control and information mechanisms regarding illegal harvesting and illegal trade in tropical timber and non timber forest products.

Nothing in this Agreement authorizes the use of measures to restrict or ban international trade in, and in particular as they concern imports of, and utilization of, timber and timber products.

(e) Information supplied by members on their progress towards the establishment of control and information mechanisms regarding illegal harvesting and related trade in imports of tropical timber and non timber products.

(a) Information supplied by members in relation to national production, trade, supply, stocks, consumption and prices of timber

(m) Encouraging members to develop national policies aimed at sustainable utilization and conservation of timber producing forests and their genetic resources and maintaining ecological balance, in the context of the tropical timber trade.

(l) Also recognizing the importance of such collaboration for improving forest law enforcement and promoting trade from legally harvested timber

Timber

Timber

Providing an effective framework for consultation, international cooperation and policy development among all members with regard to all relevant aspects of the world timber economy Providing a forum for consultation to promote non discriminatory timber trade practices

mbis) Strengthening the capacity of members to address illegal logging and related trade in tropical timber, including through improve forest law enforcement and governance and exchanging statistical data on trade

(p) Further recognizing the need for increased investment in sustainable forest management, including through reinvesting revenues generated from forests including timber related trade

Complex methods of handling and transport are used, since the illegal timber trade deals in bulk materials that are difficult to smuggle covertly.

16.22 The responsibility for this subprogramme is vested in the Trade Development and Timber Division. The strategy will promote five key work areas.

Timber Agreement, 1994,

Subprogramme 7 Timber

Neither the Executive Director nor any member of the staff shall have any financial interest in the timber industry or trade, or associated commercial activities.

TROPICAL TIMBER AGREEMENT, 1994

So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire.

Poor regulation and difficulties in identifying sawn timber and other processed products ensure that there is little hard evidence to demonstrate the extent of the trade.

International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994

(a) The international timber situation

International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994,

Strengthening the capacity of members for the collection, processing and dissemination of statistics on their trade in timber and information on the sustainable management of their tropical forests

(a) The needs of members for assistance in achieving exports of tropical timber and timber products from sustainably managed sources

(a) The needs of members for assistance in achieving exports of tropical timber and timber products from sustainably managed sources

(l) Strengthening the capacity of members for the collection, processing and dissemination of statistics on their trade in timber and information on the sustainable management of their tropical forests

Most timber now comes from plantation forests in North America which are managed to produce faster growing timber with fewer knots.

Enhancing the capacity of members to implement strategies for achieving exports of tropical timber and timber products from sustainably managed sources

TO THE INTERNATIONAL TROPICAL TIMBER AGREEMENT, 1994

to the International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994

(d) Enhancing the capacity of members to implement strategies for achieving exports of tropical timber and timber products from sustainably managed sources

Beef, pork and timber are also produced locally.

Its economy is dominated by the timber industry.

mter) Promoting the certification of tropical timber producing forests

The Bali Partnership Programme is hereby established, to enhance the capacity of members to achieve exports of tropical timber and timber products from sustainably managed forests.

HEADQUARTERS AND STRUCTURE OF THE INTERNATIONAL TROPICAL TIMBER FOREST ORGANIZATION

(p)bis. Further recognizing the need for increased investment in sustainable forest management, including through the reinvestment of revenues generated from the forest of reinvesting revenues generated from timber related trade back into the forest

The work of the Forum, and the objectives of sustainable forest management, are inextricably linked to sustainable consumption and the production of timber and non timber forest products.

(k) Improving marketing and distribution of tropical timber and timber product exports from sustainably managed and legally harvested sources and which are legally traded, including promoting consumer awareness

(a) To promote sustainable management of tropical timber producing forests, taking into account the contribution of non timber forest products and ecological services to sustainable forest management and

Deforestation for timber and energy precipitate erosion and reduce soil fertility.