The Forest Legality
Alliance: Forest Trade
Legislations
Adam Grant, World
Resources Institute
Washington, DC
Presentation Outline
• The Forest Legality Alliance
• New legislations
• FLA tools for legal trade
The Forest Legality Alliance
Context: information gaps on supply and demand side
• New legislation
 Lacey
 EU Timber Regulation
• Move from voluntary to mandatory: the need to
mainstream legality, risk considerations
• Access to all information is key
• Need for targeted, U.S.-based information for legality
The Forest Legality Alliance – What we are.
• A clearinghouse for disseminating information and
resources
• Legality-only focused
– No auditing , certification or verification of membership
– No claims on part of its members
• A creator of appropriate tools to fill risk assessment and
policy knowledge gaps
• A platform for consensus and collaboration
Presentation Outline
• The Forest Legality Alliance
• New legislations
• New tools for legal trade
Current regulations, policies and laws governing
the trade in forest products
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US Lacey Act
EU Timber Regulation
Australian Timber Regulation
ASEAN Timber Legality
FLEGT
United Kingdom Procurement
Policy
Denmark Procurement Policy
Netherlands Procurement Policy
(Kerhout)
Japanese Procurement Policies
Belgium Procurement Policies
New Zealand Timber and Wood
Products Procurement Policy
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French Timber Procurement
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German Procurement Policy
Cameroon VPA
Ghana VPA
Republic of Congo VPA
Central African Republic VPA
Democratic Republic of Congo
VPA
Indonesia VPA
Liberia VPA
Malaysia VPA
Vietnam VPA
EU Regulation vs. Lacey: Obligations
EU Timber Regulation
U.S. Lacey Act
Prohibition on trading in illegally sourced timber,
applies only to “first placer” on EU market
Prohibition on trading in illegally sourced timber,
applies to entire supply chain
“Due diligence”: elaborated process of systems
checks with different specified roles for different
actors
“Due care”: flexible, up to individual supply chain
actors to implement to their own degree of
comfort with risk
Point of control: first placing on the EU market
Point of control: any point in the supply chain
Basic traceability requirements for traders
No specific traceability requirements; implicit in
concept of due care
No customs declaration
New declaration form (PPQ 505) for designated
imported products per phase-in schedule
Applies to internally sourced forest products as
well as imported products
Applies to internally sourced forest products as
well as imported products
Presentation Outline
• The Forest Legality Alliance
• New legislations
• New tools for legal trade
How can buyers minimize risk?
• Ask suppliers questions
• What is your supply chain for this
product?
• What is the degree of illegal activity
in that forest or region?
• Buy only from reputable sources
• Know the market for the products
you’re buying
• Purchase third-party certified products
• Exercise extra caution when purchasing
from regions with known high rates of
illegal logging
Tools: Information to markets
Lacey Import
Declaration Tool
Sustainable
Procurement Guide
Risk Information Tool
Risk Information Tool
• Designed to help purchasers by providing userfriendly, text- and map-based context and
information around issues of forest products
sourcing by country and species
• Freely available, online, interactive tool
• Four-year project implemented in phases
• Partners include WWF-GFTN, NEPCon, and IMAZON
Local modules
The Forest Legality Alliance
www.forestlegality.org
Thank You
Adam Grant – agrant@wri.org
This presentation is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the
United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility
of the World Resources Institute and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United
States Government.