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The EU FLEGT VPA initiative is ultimately aimed at delivering legally assured timber and wood products to the European market, but, while EU buyers wait for that, supplier countries signed up to it say it's achieving far more besides. Mike Jeffree reports.
The EU Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade Voluntary Partnership Agreement initiative has had a mixed press in the UK and wider EU timber trade. And it's not due to its mouthful of a name, or acronym - FLEGT VPA.
Article from Timber 2016 Industry Yearbook
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Eliminating illegal timber
TRADA Technology's University Liaison Manager Elizabeth Turner discusses the impact EU Timber Regulation will have on timber specification and supply.
Article from the TRADA Timber Industry Yearbook 2012
01/01/2012 | Magazine Article
Field of dreams: 'If you build it they will come'
Paul Newman explores a new vision for housebuilding in the UK and the opportunities for timber offered by the Self-build and Custom Housebuilding Bill.
Article from the TRADA Timber Industry Yearbook 2015
01/01/2015 | Magazine Article
Improving the home-grown timber supply chain
I am sure that I am not the only person who has visited the TRADA head office in the heart of the Chilterns' beech woods and thought: "If only I had a similar view from my office window".
Those beautiful beech woods remind me of the common purpose shared by...
01/01/2016 | Magazine Article