(EN) TEFSO E- Newsletter NO.21 (JAN-MAR’2020)

 

No. 21 January – March 2020


 TEFSO NEWSLETTER

Thai – EU FLEGT Secretariat Office

Timber Chain

 

Log from public land (Sor Por Gor) to sawmill with plantation registration.

Thailand has been a systematic control of the timber supply chain since 1941. The legality of timber for trade in Thailand is considering a legality base on a land type, which not from a forest due to no forest’ concession since 1989. This column is mentioning to the Sor Por Gor land type; public land that allows people to use. To comply with the legality on harvesting by using plantation registration under the Plantation Act 1992, the timber owner needs to process as follow to affirm the legalities.

  1. Source and species – affirm with Sor Por 13; the harvesting certified letter from the authority after received a request (Sor Por 12).
  2. Transportation – affirm with Sor Por 15, and timber record by timber owner for transportation. The origin of document is with timber, and a photocopy submits to authority for their reference.
  3. Coherence and management – A sawmill requires to check an information consistency of the documents before record to a timber’ logbook for further managing of their source and product.

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          Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Voluntary Partnership (FLEGT VPA) has been started in 2013 when Thailand requested to the EU for negotiation officially. Due to the conclusion of the second negotiation between Thailand and the EU, Thailand sent the draft of LD consist of the principle, criteria, verifier, and legal reference to the EU in December 2018. This document was developed base on the exiting Thai’ law which has the Legal Department of the Royal Forest Department (RFD) is a leader of the sub-working group on preparing the draft with multi-stakeholders and presenting to related committees. In the first draft period, there was a field testing which reflects the loophole on using the document. The document was developed to a second draft currently.
   
           Currently, the draft needs to update and conform to the newly enacted law. The sub-working is working closely with the consultant and multi-stakeholders to ensure relevant laws are gatherings in every necessary aspect. Beside of RFD’ regulation, a trade-related regulation will be include.
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The Forestry Act (No.8) B.E. 2562 enforced on 16 April B.E.2562, the informed law to unlock an annexe of restricted species on private land. The harvest, processing, transportation, or possess are not necessary to ask for authorities permission. However, timber legality and traceability is a hot issue in the international market. RFD stipulated sector 18/2 of Forestry Act B.E.2484 on “Timber, timber product, and charcoal certifications on trade or export” for an operator to perform on exporting to affirm their legality and traceability compliance to a trading partner.
Currently, this regulation has signed by DG-RFD and will publish on Government Gazette which enters into force in March 2020.

Perspective 

 

Viewpoint from Mr. Viroj Tipin, the representative of the Northern Forest Network with FLEGT VPA

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