Considerations on COM(2018)514 - Signing of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement with Viet Nam on forest law enforcement, governance and trade

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dossier COM(2018)514 - Signing of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement with Viet Nam on forest law enforcement, governance and trade.
document COM(2018)514 EN
date October 11, 2018
 
table>(1)In May 2003, the Commission adopted a Communication to the European Parliament and to the Council entitled ‘Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT): Proposal for an EU Action Plan’ which called for measures to address illegal logging by developing voluntary partnership agreements with timber-producing countries (‘the EU Action Plan’). Council conclusions on the EU Action Plan were adopted in October 2003 (1) and the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the subject on 7 July 2005 (2).
(2)On 5 December 2005, the Council authorised the Commission to open negotiations with timber-producing countries on partnership agreements to implement the EU Action Plan.

(3)On 20 December 2005, the Council adopted Regulation (EC) No 2173/2005 (3) which established a FLEGT licensing scheme for imports of timber into the Union from countries with which the Union has concluded voluntary partnership agreements.

(4)The negotiations with the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam have been successfully concluded, and the Voluntary Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam on forest law enforcement, governance and trade (‘the Agreement’) was initialled on 11 May 2017.

(5)The Agreement should be signed,