FLEGT and Certification Side Event PEFC Week_EFI_Hinrichs_15!11!2013

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PEFC Forest Certification Week15 November 2013 Kuala Lumpur MalaysiaDr. Alexander Hinrichs EFI - EU FLEGT Facility

SIDE EVENT

FLEGT and Certification

- building more synergies -


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1. Regulatory and Voluntary Systems

2. VPA and Timber Legality Assurance Systems (TLAS)

3. Country experience linking TLAS & Certification


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Voluntary and Regulatory Approaches to Legal

and Sustainable Timber

Sustainability

Forest Certification CITES(FSC, PEFC, national systems) Public Procurement

Voluntary (private) Regulatory (government)

Public ProcurementVerification of legal origin (VLO) National export/import prohibitionsVerification of legal compliance EU FLEGT: VPA and EU TR

(VLC) US Lacey ActAUS Illegal Logging Prohibition ActNational Systems on Timber Legality(MY TLAS, SVLK)

Legality



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Similarities and Differences Similarities

Trade : utilizing the power of the discerning markets Standard setting

Stakeholder involvement during development and implementation

Promoted/can be promoted by the government

Differences

Regulatory Instruments Voluntary private sectorLegally binding (push effect forprivate sector) Voluntary (pull effect)

National level (reputation) FMU/FME level

Sector improvement (fair competition,

level playing field, transparency)

Competitive advantage of the

individual market participantLegality (FLEGT - all supply chains) Sustainability (selected supply chains)



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FLEGT Action Plan

(2003)

- EU Timber Regulation(in effect since 3/2013)

- Voluntary PartnershipAgreements

(EC negotiation

mandate 12/2005)


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Voluntary Partnership Agreement EU Partner country work together to stop illegal logging

and improve forest sector governance VPA = Trade agreement Negotiations to agree on a robust system to verify legal

compliance, confirmed though a FLEGT license which EU

customs in all 28 Member States accept as proof forlegality (also fulfils EU TR requirements)

Clarity in legal requirements

Increased transparency Voluntary, framed on national law respecting and rooted

in sovereignty of partner country


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VPASequencingandLandscape

Pre Negotiation Negotiation ImplementationSystemDevelopmentFLEGT LicensingTesting/Evaluatingsystem

Ivory Coast

Gabon

DRC

LiberiaCAR

Republic of Congo

Cameroon

Ghana

Honduras

Thailand

Laos

Vietnam

MalaysiaIndonesia

Guyana

Formal

announcementInitialling Signing

Ratification (on VPA

country and EU side)

Formal

announcement

2. VPA and Timber Legality Assurance System

Myanmar

CambodiaThe Philippines


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Five elements of Timber Legality Assurance Systems

5. Independent Audit

3. Verification of

compliance for operators

and timber products

1. Legality

Definition

2. TimberSupply chain

4. Issuing ofFLEGT Licenses

2. VPA and Timber Legality Assurance System


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2. VPA and Timber Legality Assurance Systems

3. Country experience linking VPA TLAS & Certification


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FLEGT and Certification going in the same direction

State / administration

Industrial private

sector,

globalised

Local and regional

producers

& Informal sector

Certification

scheme

Forestsector

FLEGT

Pull effect

Push effect

Civil society

3. Country experience linking VPA TLAS & Certification


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VPA- certification interaction

VPAs allow for formal recognition of voluntary schemes,if

Standards of voluntary schemes cover VPA legalityrequirements

Control procedures (COC) cover VPA requirements

4 of the signed 5 African VPA recognise private

certification and verification systems in their TLAS

Indonesian VPA does not, but synergies in field work



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VPA - Certification interaction: examples Cameroon

Gov Regulation for the recognition of certification schemes

Assessment by national stakeholder committee (standard,verification) ongoing -> Joint Implementation Committee

Equivalence at the level of the certificate of legality (additional

verification required at the consignment level for the issuance ofthe FLEGT license)

Congo

Legality definition criteria of TLAS gets incorporated in theexisting verification schemes (revision of FSC regional standard,pending)



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Examples of possible synergiesCertification -> FLEGT VPA processes

Pioneer best practice in countries, testing ground for case-basedsolutions (e.g. group certification with smallholders)

Serve as working examples of standard development, traceability andauditing -> help develop realistic TLAS systems

Create awareness (building on the willing) in nat. and int. contexts

FLEGT VPA -> Certification

Provide clarity on legal requirements applicable to forest operations

Cover all timber sources and are build on broad stakeholder consensus

Could serve as legality elements of certification standards

VPA increase sector transparency and accountability -> improvesframework for certification



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Interaction of certification and FLEGT

Already well defined? Experience?

Wanted?

Different in different contexts?

Synergies

Shall these be explored further?

Scaling up of country/individual experiences?

4. Discussion


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Presentation Outline ???

Thank you

Contact:

EFI FLEGT ASIA Office in Malaysia

[email protected]

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