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To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will make it a legal requirement that timber products imported and sold in the United Kingdom should have an independent chain of custody certificate showing forest origin of timber.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will make it a legal requirement that timber products imported and sold in the United Kingdom should have an independent chain of custody certificate showing forest origin of timber.
Asked by
Mark Lazarowicz
(Labour; Co-operative Party)
Answered by
Nigel Griffiths
(Labour)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
19 July 2001
For answer on
15 October 2001
Answered on
15 October 2001
Mr. Lazarowicz: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make it a legal requirement that timber products
imported and sold in the United Kingdom should have an independent chain of custody certificate showing forest origin of timber.
[6654]
Nigel Griffiths: There is currently neither a practicable system nor sufficient consensual support from all stakeholders for an
independent chain of custody certificate scheme to be a workable proposition.
The Government are actively investigating a range of options for intergovernmental agreements to combat illegal logging.
For their own purchases the Government have introduced a policy that requires their buyers to actively seek to buy timber and wood
products from sustainable and legal sources.
Subjects
Imports; Origin marking; Timber; Forest products
Date
15 October 2001
Reference
6654; 372 c984-5W
House
House of Commons