DENMARK

Denmark is not a particularly significant market for tropical timber imported into the European Union.

Although Danish forests are small, they are relatively productive as a result of intensive management and over 98 percent of imports are non-tropical, mostly from Russia. Forest and other wooded land accounts for only one eighth of the land area, of which three quarters are covered with plantations.

Where tropical timber is imported, the majority is sawnwood, accounting for 80 thousand cubic metres in 2002 and plywood, in the region of 45 thousand cubic metres in the same year.

Much of this is used by Danish public authorities, particularly in weather proof public works such as harbour construction. As a result of this the Danish parliament recently agreed that central government should adjust public procurement policies in order to ensure that purchases of tropical timber would be based only on legal and sustainable sources. Guidelines for purchasers were published in June 2003.

DOCUMENTS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
13/12/2009	UK-Denmark statement to Forest Day, Copenhagen Climate Change conference Statement on illegal logging and climate change - including the need for transparent and accountable ...	Hilary Benn (UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) and Troels Lund Poulsen (Danish Minister for the Environment)
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01/03/2009	Buying a sustainable future? Timber procurement policies in Europe and Japan The aim of this publication is to act as a central source of information on the timber procurement policies ...	FERN
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01/09/2007	Summary of Public Procurement Policies Summary documents with details of governmental timber procurement policies in a comparitive table format. ...	Proforest
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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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01/04/2007	Draft criteria for legal and sustainable timber and assessment of ceritification schemes Public consultation document on Denmark's revised draft criteria for public procurement of legal ...	Danish Ministry of the Environment
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05/10/2006	Public procurement policies for timber in Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK: Options for further harmonisation A powerpoint presentation from the UNECE/FAO policy forum on public procurement during the 64th session ...	Danish Forest and Nature Agency, DEFRA and Dutch Ministry of the Envionment
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01/05/2006	Demand-Side Options: Policies and measures for reducing imports of illegal timber and timber products to consumer countries Looks at the options available to governments of consumer countries to reduce their contribution to illegal ...	Chatham House (Duncan Brack and Jade Saunders)
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22/11/2005	Failing the Forests: Europe's Illegal Timber Trade Based on trade data for six key timber-producing regions – the Amazon Basin, the Baltic States, ...	WWF
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01/11/2003	Danish public procurement guidelines for tropical timber These voluntary guidelines have been developed in a transparent process with participation by industry, ...	Government of Denmark
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NEWS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
02/11/2009	Five nations sign up to UN initiative to tackle deforestation Five countries today joined the United Nations initiative aimed at combating climate change by creating ...	UN News Centre
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02/04/2008	IWGIA, Nepenthes and WWF withdraw from the steering group on public procurement policies for timber (Statement to the Danish Forest and Nature Agency) NGO ex-steering group members urge the Danish Forest ...	IWGA, Nepenthes and WWF (Denmark)
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01/11/2007	Moving forward with harmonisation UK - Defra and CPET recently met with Dutch and Danish colleagues in the The Hague to discuss a way forward ...	CPET (UK)
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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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26/04/2007	Public consultation: Draft Criteria for Legal and Sustainable timber and Assessment of Certification Schemes (News Release) As an important element in implementing Environment Minister Connie Hedegaards 9 Point ...	Danish Ministry of the Environment (Denmark)
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21/04/2006	Survey: European countries care less about illegal logging issues Gland, Switzerland – A new WWF report ranks 22 European Union governments and Switzerland on their ...	WWF International
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01/03/2006	Denmark Announces Expansion of its Procurement Policy ...	FLEG Newsletter#3
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18/02/2006	MTCC signs first overseas assessor A Danish-based company has become the first overseas independent assessor for the Malaysian Timber Certification ...	MTCC (Malaysia)
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06/02/2006	Nordics target illegally logged timber Danish environment minister Connie Hedegaard has published a nine-point plan for strengthening current ...	Environment Daily
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23/01/2004	DLH Responds to Accusations on Danish TV The Danish timber and wood products company has hit back at claims they are involved in illegal logging ...	DLH Group (Denmark)
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21/12/2003	20% of timber in Danish-Russian trade could be illegal Copenhagen, Denmark - A report released today by WWF shows that there is a risk that companies in Denmark ...	WWF
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PRESENTATIONS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
10/06/2008	Timber procurement policies in Denmark, UK, Netherlands & Belgium: next steps and a comparative study of criteria	Lizet Quaak, Netherlands, Marigold Norman, UK, & Sofie Tind Nielsen, CPET
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07/07/2007	Public Procurement: State of play in Denmark July 2007	Danish Ministry of the Environment (Christian Lundmark Jensen)
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25/01/2007	Public procurement policies for wood products and harmonisation process between Netherlands, UK and Denmark	Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment; Proforest (Janneke de Jong; Neil Judd)
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20/07/2006	Public Procurement of Timber: State of play in Denmark	Danish Ministry of the Environment (Sofie Tind Nielsen and Karen Sau Jespersen)
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19/01/2006	Public Procurement of Timber: State of play in Denmark	Danish Forest and Nature Agency (Christan Lundmark Jensen)
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EVENTS

DATE	TITLE
Monday 9th July 2007	Illegal Logging Update and Stakeholder Consultation Number 10 The tenth in a series of meetings coordinated by Chatham House and funded by DFID, the update was held ...
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Thursday 20th July 2006	Illegal Logging Update and Stakeholder Consultation Number 8 The eighth in a regular series of meetings coordinated by Chatham House and funded by DFID. The meeting ...
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Thursday 19th January 2006	Illegal Logging Update and Stakeholder Consultation Number 7 The seventh in a regular series of meetings coordinated by Chatham House and funded by DFID. The meeting ...
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LINKS

TITLE	DESCRIPTION	REPORT
Denmark: Ministry of the Environment	Danish draft criteria for legal and sustainable timber and assessment of certification schemes for governmental procurement of legal timber.	Broken link
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Forest and Landscape Denmark	Forest and Landscape Denmark is an independent centre at the University of Copenhagen. The Centre undertakes research, education, extension and consultancy services in the area of forest, landscape and planning and is responsible for the national monitoring of forests and forest statistics in Denmark.	Broken link
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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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