On 28 January 2016 TEFSO arranged Thai – EU FLEGT VPA working group meeting : Participatory on Legality Definition no.1 followed in RFD command 247/2559 at Meeting room no.1, Tieam Komkrit Building,RFD. The meeting has continued from the previous LD Ad-hoc working group on 18 December 2015 .
The main objective of the meeting was to give an opportunity for Thai – EU FLEGT VPA Ad-Hoc working group to gave comments on draft LD 3 (edited version), which edited the contents, regulations and law as suggestion from the first LD meeting on 18 December 2016. Furthermore, LD consultant presented FLEGT critical gaps which the issues raised by stakeholders. FLEGT VPA Ad-Hoc working group divided into small discussion groups to prioritized 11 Critical gaps issued and presented their opinions.
critical gaps divide into 2 main groups
Group A – FLEGT – Critical Gaps
(1) Imported Timber
(2) Verification mechanism(s) ensuring compliance with the LD
(3) Supply Chain Controls to ensure traceability of all timber back to the origin
(4) Verification of Unregulated Species (i.e. rubber) on Private Land
(5) Environment Management
Group B – Issues Raised by Stakeholders
(6) Land Access / Harvesting Rights for planted timber on Public Land
(7) Harvesting Restricted Species on Private Land
(8) Plantation Act Annex
(9) Simplification of Processing Permits
(10) Community Forests Process (Observations)
(11) Other
- Export of Unprocessed Timber
- Tariff on Round Wood and Sawn Timber
- Plantation Act (processing timber sourced from another plantation without a permit)
- Chainsaw Regulation
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