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Guideline for Verification on Legality and Sustainability of Wood and Wood Products.

Country/Territory
Japan
Document type
Miscellaneous
Date
2006
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Forestry
Keyword
Forest management/forest conservation Timber Timber extraction/logging Certification International trade Internal trade
Geographical area
Asia, Asia and the Pacific, Eastern Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific
Abstract

For the purpose of contributing to a solution for international illegal logging, the government of Japan has introduced a system to give a priority to governmental purchases of wood and wood products that can be identified by their legality based on the logging of forests.

Full text
Japanese/English
Website
www.goho-wood.jp; https