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CZECH REPUBLIC


34 percent of the Czech Republic's land area is covered with forest according to FAO figures from 2000.

In the same year, official statistics state that these produced 13.5 million cubic metres of roundwood, 4.35 million cubic metres of sawnwood and 512 thousand tonnes of pulp. An increasing majority of the timber produced is processed domestically and exported to other EU member states as furniture and other timber products, representing one of the most significant assets in the country's balance of trade.

Official statements suggest that illegal logging is virtually unknown in the Czech Republic but NGOs assert that it was a problem in the 1990s but has been brought under a reasonable degree of control by enforcement incentives and training for government agents.


DOCUMENTS

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DATE TITLE AUTHOR
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30/04/2007 WWF Illegal Logging Government Barometer 2007 (No. IV)
The Barometer assesses the efforts of European governments to implement the EU's Action Plan on ... 		WWF

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01/09/2003 Organised Environmental Crime in a few Candidate Countries
Investigates environmental crime, including illegal logging in each of the five accession states: Czech ... 		European Commission

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NEWS

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27/05/2011 States unite to protect primeval European forests
Bratislava, Slovakia - Europe's largest areas of old growth forests outside Russia are to be protected ... 		WWF

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18/12/2009 European countries endorse UN-backed pact on tropical timber
Eleven European countries have ratified a United Nations-backed agreement designed to promote the sustainable ... 		UN News Centre

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02/05/2007 CR faring badly in fighting illegal logging -- WWF
The Czech government is not doing well in the fight against illegal logging, says a new report of the ... 		Prague Daily Monitor (Czech Republic)

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30/04/2007 EU governments failing the forests
Brussels, Belgium European governments are dragging their heels on a key EU initiative designed to tackle ... 		WWF

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EVENTS

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Thursday 17th June 2004 Illegal Logging Update and Stakeholder Consultation Number 4
The fourth in a regular series of meetings hosted by Chatham House and funded by DFID. The meeting covered ...

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LINKS

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Ministerial Conference for the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE) The MCPFE is a political initiative working towards the protection and sustainable management of forests in Europe. It involves 44 European countries, the EC, and cooperates with countries outside of Europe and international organizations that participate as observers. Broken link

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