The Joint Expert Meeting or JEM 3 had been completed on 21-22 March 2018 in Thailand. In the meeting, Thailand had updated on our good progression of FLEGT process and highlighted the significant of stakeholder’s participatory process.        The result of the meeting is an important guideline to develop a workplan driving Thailand’s FLEGT process. This workplan aims to report the progress in the next JEM 4. The key issues are including:

–    Legality Definition (LD) which is focusing on the progress report of LD revision;
–    Supply Chain Controls (SCC), included the importing control and supply chain control on private land;
–    Product Scope (PS), with an update on additional lists into the product scope;
–    Timber Legality Assurance System (TLAS) which is focusing on the progress report of paper revision and the system’s linkage of each function.

Moreover, the EU committed to provide a financial support for a technical consultant to assist Thai side in term of document preparation as well as a financial support for the stakeholders’ participatory in providing a suitable guideline and methodology to enhance timber trade to the government sector.