Danish timber procurement policy expands to all kinds of timber - a new 9-point-plan sets out actions to improve guidance and support implementation
On 6.February 2006 Danish Environment Minister Connie
Hedegaard launched a new 9-point-plan for timber procurement in Denmark.
With this plan the Danish timber procurement policy will expand to all kinds
of timber. Also, a number of follow-up actions will be undertaken in order
to improve the present guidance and support implementation of the
procurements policy in both central and local governments.
The new 9-point-plan follows a thorough evaluation of the
Danish guidelines on public procurement of tropical timber, which was
launched in June 2003. The evaluation was carried out from September 2005 to
January 2006. Its purpose was to examine impacts as well as identify scope
for change and improvements.
The aim of the timber procurement policy is to promote and
encourage sustainable forest management. Denmark considers such user
measures, focussing on all key criteria for sustainable forest management,
as an important contribution also to achieving the CBD 2010 target.
More information about the Danish guidelines, the evaluation
and the new 9-poin-plan may be found at
http://www.skovognatur.dk/Emne/Skov/Miljoe/Indkoeb/Expanded_summary.htm
