Accidental products....
English translation: timber from incidental felling
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| 16:28 Feb 18, 2018 |
| English language (monolingual) [PRO] Law/Patents - Forestry / Wood / Timber / European Union forestry violations | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Jennifer Levey Chile Local time: 16:25 | ||||||
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| 4 +1 | timber from incidental felling |
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| 3 +2 | timber products derived from illegally harvested timber |
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peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1| accidental products.... timber from incidental felling Explanation: https://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/timber/country-info/stat... page 4: A high volume of incidental felling (4.69 million m3, or 50.3% of the total felling) was associated with the removal of calamitous timber from past natural disturbances in forests. i.e., it refers to the exploitation of timber from trees that have been damaged by natural causes. This corresponds with the comment from Cristina C. in the discussion box. A G-search for "incidental felling" gets numerous hits, including from EU sources. |
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56 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +2
peer agreement (net): +2| accidental products.... timber products derived from illegally harvested timber Explanation: This is the best I can find. Page 7 EU Timber Regulation Article 6 Due diligence systems [···] (b) risk assessment procedures enabling the operator to analyse and evaluate the risk of illegally harvested timber or timber products derived from such timber being placed on the market. http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eutr2013/_static/files/guida... The footnote on page 9 (C 346/26) Regulation (EU) No 995/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2010 laying down the obligations of operators who place timber and timber products on the market. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX... (12) The placing on the internal market for the first time of illegally harvested timber or timber products derived from such timber should be prohibited as one of the measures of this Regulation. Taking into account the complexity of illegal logging, its underlying causes and its impacts, specific measures should be taken, such as those that target the behaviour of operators. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:320... The EU Timber Regulation came into force on 3 March 2013. It prohibits operators in Europe from placing illegally harvested timber and products derived from illegal timber on the EU market. ‘Legal' timber is defined as timber produced in compliance with the laws of the country where it is harvested. http://www.euflegt.efi.int/eutr -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 4 hrs (2018-02-18 20:46:36 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- It seems to be specific to Romania. The following document refers to "accidental" ten times, starting on page 7. 4. Abuse of cleaning regulations – clearing of “accidental” fallen logs Romanian forest regulations allow for the clearing of wood felled by “accidental” causes, meaning trees that have fallen due to strong winds, landslides, avalanches, etc.59 The Romanian National Institute of Statistics recorded that “accidental” harvests took place on over 500,000 hectares of forests in Romania in both 2012 and in 2013,60 totaling 2.8 million m3 in 2012 and 3.6 million m3 in 2013.61The Romanian Court of Accounts reported that, in 2012 and 2013, in only 4.2% of cases had Romanian forest ofcials conducted the required on-site check prior to collection.62 The report states that on this basis there is suspicion that, in these two years, over 6 million m3 of timber was harvested illegally in Romania under the guise of “accidental” harvesting. http://www.nostrasilva.ro/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/EIA_Rom... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 4 hrs (2018-02-18 21:06:16 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Page 3 The legal rules (Forest Code, 2008) for harvesting allow the harvesting of principal products (final cut), secondary products (from thinning and tending), accidental products (tree damaged by insects or wind) and sanitary cutting (dead trees). https://www.web-ecol.net/14/3/2014/we-14-3-2014.pdf |
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