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"The pillage of tropical forests is a scourge for our planet. The EU, as the second largest importer of timber after China, bears a large part of the responsibility for the annual destruction of 13 million hectares of forest across the globe. Apart from being an ecological disaster, the lives of 350 million people and thousands of species are also directly threatened.
Europe had a duty to take a firm stand. This is what Parliament has done today by adopting legislation that will compel timber importers to prove the legal origin of their merchandise, thereby putting an end to the system which, until now, has let them go unpunished. A traceability system is now planned, starting from the concession where the tree is felled right up to the final delivery of the product.
Europe is on the right track. I welcome, for example, the recent signing of a partnership agreement with the Republic of Congo, aimed at reforming its forest sector. With one of the world’s three main tropical forests, this country, with which we have cordial relations, is particularly susceptible to illegal trading. The EU must now capitalise on this and encourage companies in the sector to increasingly opt to import officially certified timber."@en1
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