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UNECE TIMBER COMMITTEE
Sixty-third session

27-30 September 2005
Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

2005 UNECE/FAO - POLICY FORUM

Forest Certification: Do Governments Have a Role?
29 September 2005, Salle XIX

  TITLE  
  POLICY FORUM: FOREST CERTIFICATION - DO GOVERMENTS HAVE A ROLE?
(document TIM/2005/4, Item 5 of the Agenda)
 
  Announcement  
  Provisional Programme  
  Background Document  
 
Speakers' Presentations
 
  Presentation of the background paper
Kit Prins
Chief, UNECE/FAO Timber Branch
 
  Germany's Experience
Ulrich Bick
Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products
Institute for World Forestry
Hamburg, Germany
 
 

Sweden's Experience
Malin Anderson
National Board of Forestry

 
  United States' experience
Carrie Denise Ingram
Policy Analyst, USDA Forest Service
 
  Russian Federation's experience
Rudolf Sungurov
Director, Northern Research Institute of Forestry
Federal Forestry Agency, Russian Federation
 
 

Briefing on Malaysian Timber Council Certification Scheme
Sing Khow Tham
Director
Malaysian Timber Council

 
  Technical regulation and harmonization authorities' perspective
Christer Arvius
Chairman, UNECE Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies
(presentation delivered by Serguei Kouzmine, Secretary, UNECE Working Party)
 
 

Tropical producer country's perspective
Ben Donkor
London Office Manager
Ghana Forestry Commission

 
 

International Standardization Organization's perspective
Kevin McKinley
Deputy Secretary General, ISO Central Secretariat

 
 

International timber trader's perspective
Erik Albrechtsen
Head of Forestry and Environment Department
Dalhoff Larsen & Hornemann A/S, Denmark


 


BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS

Forest Products Annual Market Review, 2004-2005  

Timber Committee Country Market Statements 


Information about the documents or any other aspect of the Committee's work may be obtained from the secretariat:
E-mail: info.timber@unece.org
Timber Section
UNECE Trade Development and Timber Division
Palais des Nations
CH - 1211 GENEVA 10
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