November 12, 2007
International seminar for tackling illegal logging, 2007 II in Yokohama

Session B（Procurement of Goho-wood and wood products in Japanese market and its marketing）
Gist of presentation: Report 1: “Promotion of the development of goho-wood supply
system, using the procurement results of goho-wood in Japan and the Goho-woodnavigation page ”
Time and date of presentation：9:30-10:00, Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Presenter：Kato, Information Department, Planning Division, Japan Federation ofWood-Industry Associations
Overview of the presentation(1) Revision of the Green Purchasing Law and supply of wood with verified legality
through the authorizing association method
The Basic Policy of the Green Purchasing Law (Law Concerning the Promotion ofProcurement of Eco-friendly Goods and Services by the State and Other Entities) wasrevised in March 2006 and it is newly required to verify the legality of wood and wood
products delivered to national and other public sector entities. Moreover, the legality
needs to be verified according to the Guideline for Verification on Legality andSustainability of Wood and Wood Products made public by the Forestry Agency. For theestablishment of the verification system based on the authorization method of suppliersof legal wood by associations in the industry, as stated in the above guideline, unified
efforts have been made in the Japanese wood industry to establish the above system and,as a result, more than 6,500 companies have been authorized as legal wood suppliers by
about 130 authorizing associations.
The Japan Federation of Wood-Industry Associations conducted a questionnaire
survey of associations that authorize suppliers of legal wood and wood products in
October 2007 (for fiscal 2006) and the responses revealed that 10% plus of theprocessed wood products processed by the authorized producers were with verified
legality and that 2% of processed wood products imported by the authorized importers
were with verified legality.
(2) Procurement results of legal wood and activities of private companies in JapanThe results of the procurement of wood and wood products with verified legality by
the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan in fiscal 2006 have beenannounced, which shows that the results of the procurement of products categorized inlumber and plywood etc. total wood products of about 36 thousand m3, is from woodwith verified legality. The results of procurement by the entire Japanese government
are currently compiled by the Ministry of the Environment (as of the end of October2007).

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International seminar for tackling illegal logging, 2007 II in Yokohama

Not only the public sector but also some of the companies in the private sector havespecifically stated to procure wood and wood products with verified legality(Goho-wood) in their procurement policy of raw materials. Thus, activities for theprocurement of Goho-wood by the private sector are gradually but steadily spreading.
(3) Provision of information on the promotion of supply of goho-wood, using thewebsite
The unified efforts by the wood industry resulted in the successful development of
the supply system, as stated above. From now on, we need to improve the supply
system to meet the demand of companies and consumers for legal wood in order tomake goho-wood widely known and positively used by private companies andconsumers in general. Accordingly, we have developed a system and set up the“webpage to present case examples of goho-wood products” at
http://www.goho-wood.jp, which is the Goho-Wood Navigation Page managed by theJapan Federation of Wood-Industry Associations and the Council for Tackling IllegalLogging Issue. The system enables the use of the page by companies to advertise theirgoho-wood and wood products. Moreover, it is one of the objectives of this site toprovide useful information to serve as a reference in purchasing goho-wood products
for use by persons in charge of procurement who work in the government, otherpublic offices, or private companies. We hope that many companies in the private
sector will use this site for the increased supply and procurement of goho-wood andwood products.
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