【Outline of Presentation】
Aleksandr Sidorenko
The chairman of «Dalexportles» Association of Timber Manufactures and Exporters,
Russia Far EastTitle:
The verification system of legal and certified wood and wood products applied in theAssociation «Dalexportles», Far East of Russia, and the perspectives of the JapanesemarketI. Brief Profile of the Presenter.
«Dalexportles» Association (DEL):- Foundation: 1990
- Membership: 21 companies• 11 major lumber companies and wood exporters at Far East of Russia• 5 wood transportation companies and insurance companies- Core business - Harvest and export of logs, production and export of timber (lumber),processing and export of wood products, mainly made of needle-leaved andhard-wooded broad-leaved species.
- Share of «Dalexportles» in export of wood products from Far East of Russia: about
50%- Major Export Markets - Japan, China, Republic of Korea and the European countries.
II. Current situation of Management of Forest and Awareness of the issue of illegal
logging
In Russia there are two levels of forest management: federal and regional. At federal
level the forest management is carried out by the Federal Forestry Agency of the RF
Ministry of Agriculture and its territorial organ of the Far Eastern Federal District, that is theForestry Department of the Far Eastern Federal District. The control of wood industry iscarried out by the Department of Wood and Light Industry of the RF Ministry of Industry andTrade.
At regional level, in particular in the Khabarovsk Territory a forest management organ is theForest Administration of the Khabarovsk Territory and a wood industry control organ is theLight Industry Committee of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Khabarovsk Territory.
The fundamental forest law is the RF Forestry Code that has come into force onJanuary 1, 2007, as well as 70 federal subordinate legislations regulating the various
aspects of forest management including the lease procedure of a forest plot, the logging
rules, the forest caring rules, the rules of sanitary and fire safety and so on.
Since 2009 in the Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation a basic regulatory23

document in the scope of forest management is the Forest Plan which determines thefuture development of a forest sector in the given region.
III. The supply system and the actual state of the supply of wood and wood productswith verified legality (goho-wood) based on the GuidelineIn the territory of Far East of Russia there are some supervision systems of legality oflogging and export of wood and wood products.
1. The state system based on more than 30 laws and regulations which consist of alot of subsystems of crosschecks, in some cases even cross-validations. Not lessthan 15 ministries and agencies have been involved in an activity, the measures
for improvement of state forestry monitoring and supervision and forstrengthening of administrative penalties and criminal punishments have been
put into effect, the remote monitoring of illegal harvests and illegal use of forestry
fund lands by aerospace monitoring methods and GIS-technologies is carried out
and the voluntary forest certification system has been put into practice.
2. Certification system of forest control and supply chains in accordance with the FSC
international standards
In whole Russia as of September 2009 in the line of FSC the forest of about 23
million hectares have been certified and 78 certificates of CoC supply chain havebeen issued (for comparison, in 2007 about 19 million hectares have been certified
and 36 CoC certificates have been issued).
In Far East of Russia as of September 2009 the certified forest area is 2.5 million
hectares and 5 CoC certificates have been issued (3 certificates for the Primorie
Territory and 2 for the Khabarovsk Territory).
In the «Dalexportles» Association two (2) companies have been certified inaccordance with the international standards of the Forest Stewardship Council(FM/ СоC FSC).
3. Collective method of legality verification of harvesting and exporting of wood and wood
products by the «Dalexportles» Association
16 timber companies and wood exporters join the «Dalexportles» Association. Ofthem:- Two (2) companies have been certified in accordance with the international
standards of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC FM/СоC).
- One (1) company is in the process of audit in accordance with the FSC
standards.

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- Twelve (12) companies including the above three (3) ones have the certificates oflegality verification of logging and export of wood and wood products inaccordance with the methods developed by the «Dalexportles» Association.
- Four (4) companies have not been certified.
The collective method of legality verification of harvesting and exporting of woodand wood products which is introduced by the «Dalexportles» Association exists
since 2006.
IV. Future tasks and expectations of the Japanese market
In the near future the Japanese wood market is expected to be fairly sluggish quantitatively,
but Russia will supply the market as much as necessary, while replying to the quality andenvironmental request like legality and sustainability.

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