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FLEGT CAMEROON: Fight against poverty & legal security in the forest sector

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FLEGT CAMEROON: Fight against poverty & legal security in the forest sector. Activities to prepare the negotiations. Several activities were decided upon, out of which six main milestones were maintained in order to prepare the negotiations of the VPA:. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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FLEGT CAMEROON:

Fight against poverty &legal security in the forest sector

Several activities were decided upon, out of which six main milestones were maintained in order to prepare the negotiations of the VPA:

1. Official request to the European Union

2. Access to the laws 3. Definition of legality in

Cameroon 4. Harmonization of the laws 5. Adaptation of the current

strategy of control 6. Evaluation of the chain of

custody and control systems in the field

Activities to prepare the negotiationsActivities to prepare the negotiations

Official request to the European UnionOfficial request to the European Union

In October 2005 at behest of the Minister of Forestry and Wildlife, the Government of Cameroon made an official request to the EU Delegation so as to enter negotiations for a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA).

Access to the lawsAccess to the laws

The first step to forest law enforcement is that all stakeholders get access to the legal instruments physically and in real time. ?

The Government of Cameroon has decided to become a full member of the Global Legal Information Network (www.glin.gov).

Access to the lawsAccess to the laws

• An assessment visit of the Official Gazette declared the ability of Cameroon of this Foundation .

• We hope all the legal texts concerning FLEGT will be available on-line by the end of 2007.

Definition of Legality in Cameroon on the basis of:1. The laws,2. International agreements3. Cohesion of all „Stakeholders“.

Definition of LegalityDefinition of Legality

N° Critère Indicateurs Sources / Références Moyens de vérification

V. Obligations relatives à la transformation industrielle du bois

5.1 Transformation par l’entreprise du bois exploité

L’entreprise est autorisée à exporter le bois transformé Art 116 du Décret n° 95-531 du 23 août 1995 et Art. 35 (1) du Décret n° 95-531 du 23 août 1995 et art. 41 de la Loi n° 94- 01 du 20 janvier 1994

Certificat d’enregistrement en qualité d’exportateur de bois transformé

A proposition of a grid containing :• principles, • Criteria• Indicators• References and • Means of control has been elaborated with all stakeholders.

Definition of LegalityDefinition of Legality

Definition of LegalityDefinition of Legality

This grid contains themes subdivided as follows:

1. Legal documents proving the existence of the company documents / General obligations

2. Fiscal obligations

3. Logging operations / Forestry and environmental obligations

4. Transportation of logs / Obligations related to the transportation of timber

5. Wood processing / Obligations of the timber industry

6. Social obligations

Harmonization of the lawsHarmonization of the laws

1. The tidying up of the national laws2. The harmonization of the laws with countries and

organisations where there are legally binding agreements, for example: COMIFAC

Two fields of activities are to be undertaken in the medium term if FLEGT is to be a success in the long term:

What law shall I use?

They contradict one another!

Chain of custody and control systemsChain of custody and control systems

In order to be able to negotiate the government of Cameroon has elaborated the scale of the implementation of: 1. the control strategy and 2. the chain of custody from the tree to the harbour

including the transformation process.

1. institutional organization, 2. capacity building and 3. equipments.

The study comes up with a series of practical proposals including the running cost and investment costs for :

Chain of custody and control systemsChain of custody and control systems

• Presently Cameroon is preparing the official request for the negotiations with the Prime Ministry, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Commerce.

• A grid and a timetable will be proposed to the EU. • The negotiations will be based on the different

proposals already elaborated with the stakeholders in Cameroon.

• Since this proposals are detailed and discussed with the NGO’s, different development partners, the private sector, the Government of Cameroon wishes to end the VPA negotiations in 2007 and to start its implementation in 2008.

Thank you !