CONTROLLING ILLEGAL LOGGING
Actions by the UK

OUR AIM: TACKLING THE UNDERLYING CAUSES

To facilitate reforms to address failures that sustain illegal logging and associated trade:
- policy
- governance
- market
by both national and international institutions
and addressing both supply and demand

THE UK'S APPROACH

Better understanding of illegal logging and trade
Effective communication of this understanding
Build broad-based constituencies
Promote policy coherence
Help develop tools and systems
Learn from bilateral agreements
Support regional policy processes

ASSUMPTIONS

Widespread problem - but only a few big players
No single solution
The UK is part of the problem
- and must be part of the solution
All major consumers must take action

WHAT IS THE UK DOING?

Supply side
- Supporting policy reform, governance and enforcement in timber producing countries
Demand side
- Amended EU legislation
- Reform of government's timber procurement policy
Regional policy
- Professional and material support to FLEGT and other processes
Bilateral agreement with Indonesia
- A specific programme to control illegal logging

THE INDONESIA-UK MoU

Direct result of Bali FLEG meeting
Both countries committed to a series of actions:

Legislative and related reforms
Independent verification of legal compliance
Related capacity building
Involvement of civil society
Joint collection and exchange of data
Collaboration of enforcement agencies
Working with industry

IMPLEMENTING THE MOU

Development of an Action Plan
Pre-requisites:
- Consultations about definition of legality
- Verification of legality
Partnership agreement:
- Involvement of all partners
- Actions with agreed outcomes, timescales and budgets
- Assigned responsibility and accountability
- Shared learning

CATALYSTS FOR CHANGE

What factors facilitated agreement?

Recognition by Indonesia of a problem
Consensus building mechanism in the UK-government departments, NGOs and the private sector
Two reformist ministers (Prakosa and Benn)
The political will created at Bali
The pressure maintained by NGOs

Summary

UK - Indonesia MoU:
- Partnership between consumer and producer countries
- Partnerships between government agencies in each countries
- Partnerships between civil society, government and industry
- Demonstrates opportunities that others can adapt
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- Platform for shared learning
- Multilateral regional agreement?