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DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
25/01/2010	UK Government Timber Procurement Policy: Definition of legal and sustainable for timber procurement, Fourth Edition All Government procurement contracts for timber products will from 1st April 2010 include social criteria ...	CPET (Central Point of Expertise on Timber) UK
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09/06/2008	Controlling illegal logging: Using public procurement policy Concise summary of how countries are using public procurement policy to create protected markets for ...	Chatham House (Duncan Brack)
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11/09/2007	Local government timber procurement policies Case studies of local authorities' timber procurement policies, from the North East and Yorkshire ...	Chatham House (Duncan Brack)
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01/03/2006	Japanese Government Public Procurement Policy Documents related to the Japanese Governmental Public Procurement Policy regarding procurement of verified ...	Japanese Forestry Agency
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28/04/2009	UK Government Timber Procurement Advice Note April 2009 From April 2009 there has been a step-change in the UK's timber procurement policy. Central government ...	CPET
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01/06/2007	Environmental and Social Responsibility in Public Procurement The Norwegian government's three year action plan for environmental and social responsibility in ...	Norwegian Ministry of the Environment
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01/03/2006	Japanese Government Public Procurement Policy Documents related to the Japanese Governmental Public Procurement Policy regarding procurement of verified ...	Japanese Forestry Agency
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27/09/2004	Public Procurement of Timber: EU member state initiatives for sourcing legal and sustainable timber Background paper for the workshop on public procurement of timber held in Copenhagen, September 2004. ...	Chatham House/RIIA (Duncan Brack and Jade Saunders)
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27/09/2004	Public Procurement of Timber: EU member state initiatives for sourcing legal and sustainable timber Background paper for the workshop on public procurement of timber held in Copenhagen, September 2004. ...	Chatham House/RIIA (Duncan Brack and Jade Saunders)
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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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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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16/07/2008	Communication on public procurement for a better environment Commission proposal to set ambitious targets for green public procurement linked to common green procurement ...	European Commission
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25/01/2010	UK Government Timber Procurement Policy: Definition of legal and sustainable for timber procurement, Fourth Edition All Government procurement contracts for timber products will from 1st April 2010 include social criteria ...	CPET (Central Point of Expertise on Timber) UK
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09/06/2008	Controlling illegal logging: Using public procurement policy Concise summary of how countries are using public procurement policy to create protected markets for ...	Chatham House (Duncan Brack)
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18/11/2005	Public procurement policy aimed at promoting the use of timber and wood from sustainably managed forests Government circular of 2005 setting out the Belgian timber procurement policy. This is an English translation ...	Government of Belgium
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05/10/2006	Market effects of public procurement policies for wood and paper products in the UNECE region Report produced for a UNECE meeting on public procurement policies. The study was conducted by asking ...	UNECE/FAO Team of Specialists on Forest Products Markets and Marketing
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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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18/12/2006	Evaluation of Category A Evidence: Review of Forest Certification Schemes 2006 review, carried out by CPET (UK Central Point of Expertise on Timber) to ensure that the five certification ...	CPET
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01/10/2008	Dutch Procurement Criteria for Timber Criteria for the Dutch timber procurement policy: Principles and criteria for sustainable forest management, ...	Timber Procurement Assessment Committee (Netherlands)
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22/08/2007	Documents concerning the pretest of the Netherlands public procurement 'Equivalence Assessment System' The Netherlands government have developed an Equivalence Assessment System (EAS) in order to assess certification ...	Netherlands Minsitry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment
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01/07/2007	The Cost-Benefit Analysis of China's Adopting the Green Government Procurement Policy for Forest Products The objective of this report is to comprehensively analyse the possible costs and benefits of China's ...	School of Economics and Management Beijing Forestry University/ TNC
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16/07/2008	Communication on public procurement for a better environment Commission proposal to set ambitious targets for green public procurement linked to common green procurement ...	European Commission
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18/01/2010	Summary Report of the Final Judgement of PEFC Austria by the Timber Procurement Assessment Committee (TPAC) This report is the assessment of PEFC Austria by the Dutch Timber Procurement Assessment Committee (TPAC), ...	Timber Procurement Assessment Committee, Netherlands
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NEWS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
15/06/2006	Green Procurement Law Revised to Help Prevent Illegal Logging Japan - The Cabinet has endorsed partial changes in the basic policy drawn up in accordance with the ...	Japan for Sustainability
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12/11/2009	PEFC Belgium meets Dutch Procurement Criteria The Dutch Timber Procurement Assessment Committee (TPAC) judges that PEFC Belgium meets the Dutch Procurement ...	Timber Procurement Assessment Committee, Netherlands
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15/10/2006	UNECE/FAO hold policy forum on public procurement The UNECE and FAO held a policy forum on 'Public procurement policies (PPP) for wood and paper products ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report (Japan)
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21/01/2010	Government tightens sustainable timber procurement policy: New purchasing criteria to step up crackdown on illegal timber The [UK] government has today announced that it is to tighten its procurement policy for timber products ...	BusinessGreen.com
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18/01/2010	PEFC Austria meets Dutch Procurement Criteria The Dutch Timber Procurement Assessment Committee (TPAC) judges that PEFC Austria meets the Dutch Procurement ...	Timber Procurement Assessment Committee, Netherlands
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14/04/2006	Japanese Public Procurement Policy Enters Into Force A government procurement policy requiring all forest goods and services purchased by the state to be ...	Bridges Trade BioRes
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17/01/2007	Explanatory Notes regarding the procurement of wood products (Press Release) Attachment to the joint instruction of 17.01.2007 that the German Federal Administration ...	German Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (Germany)
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15/12/2006	TTAP seminar urges harmonized procurement policies Belgium - More than 50 leading wood products buyers, suppliers and policy makers met recently in Brussels ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report (Japan)
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25/07/2007	Norwegian government: 'FSC not good enough for procurement policy' The Norwegian government has decided that it it cannot rely on any certification system, not even the ...	FSC Watch
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21/01/2010	Government introduces social regulations on timber procurement The [UK] government has announced new regulations on procurement of timber to ensure that it comes from ...	Purcon, UK
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24/03/2006	UK government procurement policy: contractors - have your say Proforest/CPET seek feedback from UK government suppliers and contractors. ...	Proforest (UK)
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26/05/2005	Members of UK Government Task Force on Sustainable Procurement Announced Margaret Beckett, Secretary of State for the Environment, and Financial Secretary John Healey, today ...	TTF (UK)
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20/11/2007	CPET announce regional training workshops on UK government timber procurement policy UK - Regional training provided free of charge to government timber product buyers and private sector ...	CPET (UK)
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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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10/10/2006	Governments fight illegal logging and promote sustainability through their purchasing UNECE/FAO policy forum discussed how to avoid illegally and unsustainably sourced wood and paper products ...	UNECE (Switzerland)
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04/07/2007	Legal Q&A: Timber procurement UK - How has the timber trade changed over recent years? The industry outlook has changed dramatically. ...	Contract Journal (UK)
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20/07/2007	Understanding Corporate Purchases of Wood Products Before purchasing forest-based products, corporate managers should ask a handful of basic questions about ...	World Resources Institute (USA)
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08/09/2009	Launch of international stakeholder forum on PEFC International From September 8 until October 5, the TPAC international stakeholder forum is open for discussion of ...	TPAC / SMK
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03/06/2006	27.8% of Local Governments in Japan Have Green Purchasing Programs Only 27.8 percent of the local governments have drawn up their green purchasing procurement policies, ...	Japan for Sustainability
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29/03/2008	Sustainability goes local The UK government wants the timber trades help to encourage local authorities to adopt sustainable timber ...	Timber Trades Journal (UK)
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25/06/2008	Launch international internet forum for timber certificates (Press Release) On the 25th of June, the Dutch Timber Procurement Assessment Committee (TPAC) launched ...	Dutch Timber Procurement Assessment Committee (TPAC)
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PRESENTATIONS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
01/11/2007	EU government procurement and FLEGT timber licensing	Chatham House (Jade Saunders)
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05/10/2006	Understanding the WTO agreement on government procurement (GPA)	WTO Secretariat (Robert D Anderson)
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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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20/07/2006	The reform of public timber procurement in Japan	Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (Federico Lopez-Casero)
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18/06/2008	Public procurement policies for legal and sustainable timber: Trends and essential elements	Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (Federico Lopez-Casero)
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22/02/2007	Forest certification and legality verification: implications for public procurement policy	CPET (Kate Bottriel)
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20/01/2010	Social Issues in Timber Procurement Policies	Duncan Brack, Chatham House
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27/04/2007	China's efforts for timber verification	Chinese Academy of Forestry (Lu Wenming)
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EVENTS

DATE	TITLE
Thursday 5th October 2006	Public procurement policies for wood and paper products and their impacts on sustainable forest management and timber markets To be held during the 64th session of the UNECE Timber Committee, the meeting aims to provide a neutral ...
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Thursday 5th October 2006	Public procurement policies for wood and paper products and their impacts on sustainable forest management and timber markets To be held during the 64th session of the UNECE Timber Committee, the meeting aims to provide a neutral ...
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Monday 6th October 2003	Excluding illegal timber: border controls and procurement: making the system work A meeting held to address the practical and legal implications of establishing an EU FLEGT timber licensing ...
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Tuesday 7th June 2005	Public Procurement and Forest Certification: Assessing the Implications for Policy, Law and International Trade The workshop run by Ecologic aimed to feed into a project to support the implementation of third party ...
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Tuesday 3rd May 2005	Forest Governance and Trade - China, Global Markets and Legal Procurement Initiatives The meeting aimed to explore the current state of play in the domestic Chinese timber market, the global ...
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APPROACHES

TYPE	TITLE
APPROACHES	PUBLIC PROCUREMENT Governments are increasingly using public procurement policies to build markets for legal and sustainable timber products. It is estimated that government ... ...
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APPROACHES	NETHERLANDS Criteria for the Dutch timber procurement policy: Principles and criteria for .... Dutch Timber Procurement Assessment Committee/TPAC (Netherlands) ... ...
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APPROACHES	BELGIUM The Belgian Government is developing a procurement policy to remove illegal timber from government contracts and over 70 percent of the municipalities ... ...
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APPROACHES	DENMARK As a result of this the Danish parliament recently agreed that central government should adjust public procurement policies in order to ensure that ... ...
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APPROACHES	NETHERLANDS Criteria for the Dutch timber procurement policy: Principles and criteria for ... Summary documents with details of governmental timber procurement policies ... ...
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