by Default admin language (currently English) | 20/Oct/2022 | News
In a recent paper by the European Forest Institute (EFI), EU-FLEGT Asia Programme and GIZ-ProFEB, the role of non-state stakeholders is being addressed. This paper takes stock of the involvement of non-state actors (civil society organisations and the private sector)...
by Default admin language (currently English) | 13/Oct/2022 | News
During an official visit to Laos last week, Germany’s Secretary of State of the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), his Excellency Mr. Jochen Flasbarth, met with FLEGT stakeholders in Luang Prabang. Among other locations, the delegation...
by Default admin language (currently English) | 22/Aug/2022 | News
In recent years, Lao PDR has spent a lot of efforts to prepare for the effective implementation of the Lao TLAS and related VPA with European Union, while aiming to combat illegal logging and timber trading and to trade the Lao legal timber and timber products in the...
by Default admin language (currently English) | 29/Jul/2022 | News
Regulatory inspection and verification functions are one of the key elements of the Lao TLAS to support and verify the legal compliance of timber legality definitions (TLDs) and supply chain control (SCC) of operators. With the support of the GIZ Project “Protection...
by Default admin language (currently English) | 27/Jun/2022 | News
It is well-known that the FLEGT VPA development and implementation is a participatory process for which well-coordinated participation and active contributions from the concerned stakeholders are essential. To ensure a functioning multi-stakeholder process, GIZ-ProFEB...
