FINLAND

Finland has 20 million hectares of highly productive softwood forests, many of which are plantations.

In 2003 the Finnish forestry industry accounted for 3 percent of the jobs in the country, 4 percent of GDP, 17 percent of total industrial production and almost 25 percent of exports by value. The pulp and paper industry makes up around 80 percent of these figures. EU member states are the main market for these exports, particularly Germany and the UK.

In addition to the output of Finnish forests, around 23 percent of the raw materials processed in the pulp and paper sector are imported, mainly from Russia and the Baltic states.

Finland also manufactures and exports pulp and paper machinery to other timber producing and processing countries.

DOCUMENTS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
01/10/2008	Out of Control: High conservation value forest logging under FSC controlled wood in Finland The report follows detailed investigations into several logging operations in Finland over the last two ...	Greenpeace
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01/05/2007	EU FLEGT Initiative: Assessment of 'Additional Measures' to Exclude Illegal Timber from EU Markets: Finland study Analysis of Finnish legislation of potential relevance to controlling imports of illegal timber. The ...	Finnish government (Ulkoasiainministeri)
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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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01/02/2007	ECA Brief: Pulp mills in Uruguay Looks at issues with the much-contested Orion pulp mill development in Uruguay and the role of the Finnish ...	ECA Watch
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19/09/2006	Partners in Crime: A Greenpeace investigation into Finland's illegal timber trade with Russia Report looking at evidence of illegally logged timber from Russia being freely imported into Finland ...	Greenpeace
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01/10/2005	Impacts of reduction of illegal logging in European Russia on the EU and European Russia forest sector and trade A report examining the potential impacts of implementing trade controls, such as the licensing scheme ...	European Forest Institute
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10/09/2005	ENA FLEG Ministerial Process: Draft #3 of the 'Building Blocks' towards the St Petersburg Declaration This document is based on the output of the ENA FLEG Preparatory Conference held in Moscow, June 3-5, ...	ENA FLEG Secretariat
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11/06/2005	Summary of the ENA FLEG Preparatory Conference June 2005 Briefly introduces the history of regional FLEG processes and then summarises the ENA FLEG Preparatory ...	International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
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22/02/2005	ENA FLEG International Steering Committee Meeting Notes February 2005 Summarises the discussions held, the structure of the process so far and plans for the development of ...	ENA FLEG Secretariat
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NEWS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
08/08/2012	Norway and Finland dish out USD5m to curb illegal logging The governments of Norway and Finland have dished out USD5m which would be used in the campaign to improve ...	IPP Media
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31/07/2012	Timber plunder upsets envoys Dar es Salaam - Finland and Norway have expressed concern over Tanzania’s failure to implement ...	The Citizen, Tanzania
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22/02/2012	WWF says European Union is 'failing the forests' The European Union is coming up short in stemming the flow of illegal and unsustainable timber into the ...	Hardwood Floors, US
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15/02/2012	Europe is falling behind on tackling unsustainable timber trade EU countries are not doing enough to stem the flow of illegal and unsustainable timber or regulating ...	ClickGreen
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13/12/2010	Finland to fund sustainable energy from forests in Indonesia Finland is aiming to set up an scheme to produce renewable biomass energy from Indonesian forests next ...	Reuters, featured on Planet Ark
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10/07/2010	Finnish concern at “hurried” illegal timber legislation The Finnish forest industry has expressed concern at the “hurried” final drafting of EU draft ...	TTJ, The Timber Industry Magazine, UK
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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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13/11/2009	Finnish paper company to sever ties with logging firm linked to rainforest destruction in Indonesia Finnish paper company UPM-Kymmene will stop buying paper pulp from Asia Pacific Resources International ...	Mongabay.com
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10/08/2009	Medvedev to discuss illegal timber exports with Finland, China Moscow - President Dmitry Medvedev said Monday he would discuss illegal timber exports from Russia at ...	Prime Tass, Russia
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09/12/2008	Finns warn against unnecessary bureaucracy The Finnish Forest Industries Federation (FFIF) has warned against unnecessary bureaucracy being created ...	Timber Trades Journal (UK)
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14/11/2008	Greenpeace exposes FSC's 'Controlled Wood' fiction: Finland logging 'Out of Control' A new report from Greenpeace published this month confirms what this website has been warning for nearly ...	FSC Watch
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22/08/2008	The name of the game is (illegal) logging: ENCE cleared dozens of hectares of native bush In Uruguay, the Ministry of Agriculture suspended the proceeding filed by the Spanish company ENCE with ...	UITA, Uruguay
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24/07/2008	Russia canceled trade talks with Finland Russian Industry and Trade Minister Viktor Khristenko has canceled a planned meeting with Finnish officials ...	Barents Observer (Russia)
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24/07/2008	Khristenko to Skip Finnish Wood Talks Industry and Trade Minister Viktor Khristenko has canceled a planned meeting with Finnish officials this ...	The Moscow Times (Russia)
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22/07/2008	WWF: Finland EU's Biggest Importer of Illegal Timber The WWF accuses Finland of being one of the European Union's biggest importers of illegally felled ...	YLE News (Finland)
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22/07/2008	Too much illegal wood in EU markets - WWF Brussels, Belgium - Almost one-fifth of wood imported into the European Union in 2006 came from illegal ...	WWF
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07/03/2008	Police repress peasant women to protect Swedish-Finnish company Stora Ensos illegal plantations (World Rainforest Movement Press Release) Brazil - The Swedish-Finnish company, Stora Enso has purchased ...	World Rainforest Movement (Uruguay)
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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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29/03/2007	Stora Enso investigates illegal logging claims Stora Enso is to demand a thorough ecological analysis from logging group Metshallitus after accusations ...	PrintWeek (UK)
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04/02/2007	Finland's Botnia says relocating Uruguay pulp mill "not an option" Buenos Aires, Argentina - Finnish company Oy Metsa-Botnia AB said it will not consider moving an Uruguay ...	International Herald Tribune (France)
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24/01/2007	Competition Authority says large forest companies violated law The Finnish Competition Authority (FCA) says that three large Finnish pulp and paper manufacturers deliberately ...	Helsingin Sanomat (Finland)
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19/12/2006	Uruguay: Though not yet in operation, Metsa Botnia's pulp mill already smells rotten (Press Release, Guayubira Group Uruguay) It is almost certain that the Finnish public know little or ...	World Rainforest Movement Bulletin (Uruguay)
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07/12/2006	EU ratifies support for Botnia pulp mill in Uruguay The European Union praised the World Bank decision to extend a 170 million US dollars loan for the completion ...	MercoPress (Uruguay)
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22/11/2006	Finland's Botnia gets World Bank financing for paper mill in Uruguay Oy Metsa-Botnia said the World Bank has approved 520 mln usd in financing for its pulp mill project in ...	Forbes (USA)
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10/10/2006	Russian minister: Wood buyers share responsibility for illegal felling Russia's Minister of Natural Resources, Juri Trutnev says that responsibility for illegal felling ...	Helsingin Sanomat (Finland)
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27/09/2006	Finland receives Golden Chainsaw award (Greenpeace Press Release) In the decades between the 1950s and 1970s birch trees in Finland were considered ...	Greenpeace
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21/09/2006	FFIF: Forest industry makes strong contribution in EU to prevent illegal logging Finnish Forest Industries Federation Press Release: Finnish forest industry has actively contributed ...	Kauppalehti (Finland)
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21/09/2006	Stora Enso initiates dialogue in Russia - only legal wood (Stora Enso Oyj Press Release) Stora Enso actively works to combat illegal logging wherever the Group ...	Comtex News Network
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19/09/2006	Finnish companies accused over timber imports Finnish companies are importing illegal timber from neighbouring Russia even as their government lectures ...	MSNBC (USA)
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19/09/2006	EU under fire over illegal logging Environmentalists have accused the Finnish EU presidency of importing illegal Russian timber. ...	EUPolitix.com (Belgium)
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19/09/2006	Greenpeace investigation exposes Finland's illegal timber trade with Russia (Press Release) London, UK - A Greenpeace International report released today reveals how illegally logged ...	Greenpeace (UK)
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14/07/2006	FFIF and WWF agree to cooperate on legal wood The Finnish Forest Industries Federation (FFIF), WWF Russia and WWF Finland have agreed to cooperate ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report
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28/02/2006	WWF claims Finnish forest service violates its own felling guidelines Finland - WWF says that the tree felling currently under way in Koljatinjärvi in Suomussalmi in ...	Helsingin Sanomat (Finland)
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23/02/2006	Settlement reached with WWF on protection of old forests in Lapland Finland - Following claims of logging in violation of guidelines, the Finnish state forest enterprise ...	Helsingin Sanomat (Finland)
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17/01/2006	Forest Certification Does Work An independent study which examined the performance of forest certification in Finland, Sweden and Norway ...	New Zealand Forestry
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26/08/2004	Finnish forestry production at risk - Russia Finnish forestry firms could close down a significant part of domestic production unless the government ...	Reuters
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PRESENTATIONS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
10/12/2008	Fighting illegal logging: obligation or opportunity	Metsaliitto Group (Terhi Koipijarvi)
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03/04/2006	Finnforest: Implementation of supply chain management	Finnforest UK (Rachel Butler)
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LINKS

TITLE	DESCRIPTION	REPORT
Finnish Forest Industries Federation	The Finnish Forest Industries Federation (FFIF) is an organization representing Finnish wood processing companies.	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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