Mr Atthapol Charoenchansa, Deputy Director General of the Thai Royal Forest Department, had attended the 3rd EFI Technical Mission.The European Forest Institute (EFI) represented and led by Mr Alexander Hinrichs and Mr Morne van der Linde.  The meeting hold during 19 -21 November 2018 at Cinnamon meeting room, Cinnamon hotel, Bangkok, and aimed to discuss in-detail over the documents and papers of the VPA with the Thai sub-working groups.

The main issues to be discussed divided into 3 days as follow:

On 19 November 2018, supply chain control on private land including self- declaration and chain of custody

On 20 November 2018, Legality Definition and Import Controls

On 21 November 2018 Supply Chain Control Dataflow and Thai Legality Assurance System (TLAS)

However, resolutions agreed within this meeting will be brought into the discussion again in the upcoming video conference on December 2018 for further process.