EurActiv, March 26, 2008
The Commission will propose new measures to tackle illegal logging in May amid fears that the current EU legislation is not effective enough, Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas announced last week. The announcement came after the commissioner was presented with a report by Friends of the Earth which asserts that "half of the timber imported by the EU from high-risk areas [including Central Africa, the Amazon, Russia and Indonesia] has been logged illegally". Read more...
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