10:00  Economic Situation in the ECE Region

Mr. Paul Rayment

Director

ECE Division of Economic Analysis

460 Palais des Nations

CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland

Tel: +41 22 917 2778, Fax: +41 22 917 0309

E-mail:  Paul.Rayment@unece.org

10:30  Roundwood, pulp and paper

(secretariat introduction by Mr. Kit Prins)

1. Mr. Thomas Stemberger

Standing Committee of the President of the Austrian Chambers of Agriculture

Löwelstrasse 12

A - 1014 Vienna, Austria

Tel: +43 1 53 441 529, Fax: +43 1 53 441 466

E-mail:  pkforst@pklwk.at

2. Mr. Juha Hakkarainen

Forest Economist

Central Union of Agricultural Producers

 and Forest Owners (MTK)

P.O. Box 510

FIN - 00101 Helsinki, Finland

Tel: +358 9 1311 5490, Fax: +358 9 1311 5403

E-mail:  juha.hakkarainen@mtk.fi

11:30  Softwoods

(secretariat introduction by Mr. Ed Pepke)

1. Mr. Mikael Westin

Managing Director

Swedish Wood Exporters' Association

Gustavslundsvägen 12, 4^th Floor

S-16751 Bromma, Sweden

Tel: +46 825 8500, Fax: +46 825 8527

E-mail: Mikael.Westin@stef.se

2. Mr. Erik Kosenkranius

Director

Department of Forestry

Ministry of Environment

Viljandi mnt.  18b

EE-0012 Tallinn, Estonia

Tel. +372 62 81 500, Fax +372 62 81 510

E-mail:  erik@riigimets.ee

3. Mr. Nikolai A. Burdin

General Director , NIPIEIlesprom

Klinskaya Str. 8

RF - 125889 Moscow

Russian Federation

Tel:   +7 095 456 13 03  Fax:  +7 095 456 53 90

E-mail:  nipi@dialup.ptt.ru

15:00  Hardwoods

(secretariat introduction by Mr. Ed Pepke)

1.  Temperate hardwoods

Mr. Pierre Marie Desclos

Consultant

Via Cassia, 1004

I-00189 Rome

Tel: +3906 3031 1046, Fax: +3906 3031 1293

E-mail: pmd@fnc.net

2. Tropical hardwoods

Mr. Geoffrey Pleydell

Consultant, tropical timber

Cotter Cottage, Bug Hill, Woldingham

UKBCR3 7LB Surrey, United Kingdom

Tel: +441 883 65 3326, Fax: +441 883 65 2505

16:00  Panels & Engineered Wood Products

(secretariat introduction by Mr. Jorge Najera)

1. Mr. Adriaan Bastiaansen

European Panel Federation

Box 5

B - 1070 Brussels, Belgium

Tel: +32 2 556 25 89, Fax: +32 2 556 25 94

E-mail: Euro.Wood.Fed@skynet.be

2. Dr. John Guerin

Technical Manager

Willamette Europe Ltd.

Redmondstown, Clonmel,

County Tipperary, Ireland

Tel: +353 522 1166, Fax: +353 522 1815

E-mail: jguerin@willamette-europe.com

17:00  Certified Forest Products

(secretariat introduction by Mr. Ed Pepke)

Dr. Richard Vlosky

Associate Professor

Forest Products Marketing

Louisiana Forest Products Laboratory

Louisiana State University

Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA

Tel: +1 225 388 4527, Fax: +1 225 388 4251

E-mail: vlosky@lsu.edu

18:00 End of session