contaminated wood waste

wide-ringed timber | open-grown timber | coarse grown timber | fast-grown timber | open-grained timber | coarse-grained timber | wide ringed lumber | coarse grain lumber | coarse grain

computer numerically controlled woodworking machine tool operator [ CNC woodworking machine tool operator ]

shiplapped lumber [ shiplap | shiplap lumber | shiplap board | shiplap siding | shiplap boarding ]

burled wood

problem employee

tongue and groove lumber | matched lumber

wood in the natural state

wood product [ timber ]

In this context, the European Union Timber Regulation serves as a legal basis for the Union to address the global problem of illegal logging through its demand for timber and timber products.

In line with the European Parliament legislative resolution of 24 September 2008, your Rapporteur recalls that when drafting the negotiating mandate for the revision of the International Tropical Timber Agreement, 2006, the Commission should propose that the current text be revised, placing the protection and sustainable management of tropical forests and the restoration of forest areas that have been degraded at the heart of the agreement, stressing the importance of education and information policy in the countries affected by the problem of deforestation in order to enhance public awareness of the negative consequences of exploiting t ...[+++]imber resources in an abusive manner.

It contains measures designed to fight illegal logging and trade in the timber thus obtained, both being practices which cause heavy losses in developing countries and damage the environment.

The Commission will attempt to address, through programmes of development cooperation among others, the problem of armed conflicts that are financed by illegal logging activities.