Thai Supply Chain Controls Annex entails a series of mechanisms and procedures that confirms and tracks the legal source of origin of timber and timber product. The mechanisms will prevent a combination of illegal timber and legal timber in the process.
The mechanisms can be divided into 3 major parts: 1) Timber’s Source of Origin, 2) Supply Chain Control for Industrial Exporting, and 3) Exportation.
- Timber’s Source of Origin
This part shows legality assurance of timber on the land processing right, including requesting for legally logging permit, transportation from a source of timber before entering timber industrial processing for exportation.
- Timber from Public Land A permitted operator on public land must own documents of land processing right or land use the written permit.
- Timber from Private Land Unrestricted Species on Private Land (under Forest Act B.E. 2484), the harvesting of unrestricted species will mainly consider the evidence of land as unrestricted species on Public land. It means that the land has the certificate of permission for activities within forest area; the harvesting can proceed freely without requesting for the permission or any permit.
- Imported timber to the Kingdom of Thailand An importer must declare the documents to ensure the legality of wood as ‘Certificate of Origin’ or trade export permit to Customs Department
- Supply Chain Control for Industrial Exporting
This part shows the documents, which are attached during importing materials to processing facilities, and documents of product transportation, which depart from processing facilities, including the legality of business and guidelines that demonstrate the legality and transparency of the establishments.
- Export
This part shows the process of legally controlling exported commodities (log, transformed timber, and timber product, including accurate Export Certificate from Thailand to destination).
Diagram of Supply Chain Control of Thailand
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