Considerations on COM(2022)199 - Signing of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement with Guyana on forest law enforcement, governance and trade in timber products to the EU

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dossier COM(2022)199 - Signing of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement with Guyana on forest law enforcement, governance and trade in timber ...
document COM(2022)199 EN
date October 13, 2022
 
table>(1)On 21 May 2003, the Commission adopted a communication to the Council and the European Parliament 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. The Council adopted its conclusions on the FLEGT Action Plan on 13 October 2003 and the European Parliament adopted its resolution on the subject on 11 July 2005.
(2)On 5 December 2005, the Council authorised the Commission to open negotiations with timber-producing countries on partnership agreements to implement the FLEGT Action Plan.

(3)On 20 December 2005, the Council adopted Regulation (EC) No 2173/2005 (1) 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 Cooperative Republic of Guyana in view of the conclusion of a Voluntary Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Cooperative Republic of Guyana on forest law enforcement, governance and trade in timber products to the European Union (‘the Agreement’) were successfully concluded with the initialling of the Agreement on 23 November 2018.

(5)The Agreement should be signed, subject to its conclusion at a later date,