CHATHAM HOUSE Illegal Logging Update and Stakeholder Consultation

CHATHAM HOUSE Illegal Logging Update and Stakeholder Consultation 9 -10 July 2007 PUBLIC PROCUREMENT State of Play in Denmark by: Christian Lundmark Jensen Danish Ministry of the Environment Forest and Nature Agency

Green Procurement in DK - milestones since mid 1990 ties 1995 - 50 procurement guidelines developed for numerous products Many supporting facilities: Buyers Panel, SKI and PP Network 2001 Parliament decision on Tropical Timber 2003 Voluntary procurement guidelines on Tropical Timber 2004 Information campaign on Tropical Timber 2005 Evaluation of guidelines on Tropical Timber 2006 9 -point-plan on legal and sustainable timber (all timber) Temporary guidance on legal timber (all timber) 2007 Draft revised criteria for ‘legal’ and ‘sustainable’ (all timber) out for public consultation

All public buyers should buy ’legal’ and ’sustainable’ timber Declared line of sight from Environment Minister Connie Hedegaard, when launching her 9 -point-plan in 2006

What’s the problem? Tropical Public Voluntary Binding rules EU-directives EU FLEGT WTO/GPA Harmonisation EU, UK, NL, France, Belgium Germany Rio Forest Principles ITTO, CBD ILO, ISO, FPIC Criteria Legal Sustainable Phased approach. . . Certification + Co. C Alternative documentation Assesment Tools Guidelines Wood as material Wood products

What’s the possibilities?

Draft Revised DK Criteria UK / DK (identical) 1. Standards Legal Sustainable frame Sustainable specifics Sustainable process 4/4 2/0 4/6 3/5 (all) (0) - slight dif. on link to int. framework (4) - DK: + social + extent of forest resource (1) - DK explicitely accept two processes 2. Certification 3. Accreditation 4. Co. C and labelling 6 / 6 (all) Total 26 / 30 (20) 1 / 1 (all) 6 / 6 (4) - dif. on link to forest and mix/70 %

Comments to DK draft • 44 organisations and agencies responded • 10 domestic • 34 from foreign countries or international org. e. g. UK, Finland, Malaysia, Australia, US, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Brazil + int. org. • more than 100 pages with detailed comments – many constructive proposals for technical improvements – some good for thought, e. g. : do we at all NEED this kind of work (national criteria setting); concern about uncertified suppliers, – strong calls for more cautious approaches, e. g. on social + extent – strong calls for more rigorious approaches, e. g. on social + extent (All comments available at full length at the internet)

Next steps • Consider all comments carefully • Keen to engage in broader stakeholder discussion, e. g. on social aspects and/or extent of ressource • Keen to contribute to harmonisation efforts • However, also keen to move on and improve guidance to buyers -as said in the 9 -point-plan • Keen to address alternative means for doc. in a practical, yet ambitious way (e. g. underpin FLEGT) – – – – we have some guidance already (tropical timber guidelines) CPET has some (very long!) guidance Seminar in Copenhagen March 2007 Timber tracking project in Russia finalised Look into existing VLO/VLC tools and systems Address the missing link from forest to buyer Non controversial areas and countries?

Thank you WWW. SNS. DK Go to English version ”Public Procurement of Timber”