However, they can choose whether or not to account for emissions and removals resulting from 'forest management', i.e. management activities such as harvesting and replanting of trees on land which was forested before 1990 and which remains forested today.

2. Observations shall be made at each intersection point falling on forested land.

instrument is located in a (nearby) open field in the forest area

Under the afforestation regulation (including improvement of existing woodlands) the Member States have presented national or in some cases regional programmes that have been approved by the Commission and could cover about 700.000 ha at a cost of about 1.3 billion ecu.

C. Range The essential areas for action to achieve the aims are : IN THE COMMUNITY _ infrastructure : forest roads and their links with the public road network, - structures : the rationalization of parcels of woodland and of land to be planted will permit the creation of lower cost and hence more effective management units, - sylvicultural and processing techniques, - harmonization of national or adoption of Community provisions on reproductive material quality and on product standards at the various manufacturing stages, - better links between forest and processing plants, - development of owner-forester associations and occupational groups, - development of certain productio ...[+++]n sectors generally secondary to timber : cork, resin and in the OCT tropical timbers, - comprehensive Community level information on the outlook for production and consumption of the main forest products and on the economics and profitability of the sector, aids and taxation.

I do think we need to keep in mind that sometimes the environmental groups, and perhaps that's the importance of having the protected area system, have argued that the 24% is focused on the most productive land, the best soils and that kind of thing, and the areas that are not set aside for harvesting are rocks, ice, and water.