Considerations on COM(2020)340 - Conclusion of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement with Honduras on forest law enforcement, governance and trade in timber products to the EU

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dossier COM(2020)340 - Conclusion of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement with Honduras on forest law enforcement, governance and trade in timber ...
document COM(2020)340 EN
date May 26, 2021
 
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’. The Action Plan set out in that communication (‘the FLEGT Action Plan’) called for measures to address illegal logging by developing voluntary partnership Agreements with timber-producing countries. Council conclusions on the FLEGT Action Plan were adopted in October 2003 and a European Parliament resolution on the subject was adopted on 11 July 2005.
(2)In accordance with Council Decision (EU) 2020/2185 (2), the Voluntary Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Honduras on forest law enforcement, governance and trade in timber products to the European Union (‘the Agreement’) was signed on 23 February 2021, subject to its conclusion at a later date.

(3)The Agreement should be approved,