Procurement rules of the Federal Government for wood products
With 2011 being the International Year of Forests, the Federal Government is pointing the way forwards towards sustainable forest management by updating the federal administration’s procurement rules for wood and wood products.
Source: BMELV, Walkscreen
A new Joint Instruction on the Procurement of Wood Products came into force on 17 January 2011, replacing the 4-year-old regime of 2007 which had been limited to a trial period of four years. Procurement regimes for wood products make an important contribution to the sustainable management of forests and to forest conservation as they stipulate that any wood products that are to be procured must demonstrably come from fair sources. Wood as a raw material that is to be used more widely in the future owing to its diverse uses and positive characteristics, for instance as a climate-neutral building material and fuel, must originate from sustainable forestry. Certified forest management is a requirement for meeting the criteria of the procurement regime and is important due to the fact that illegal logging and overexploitation still prevail in a number of wood exporting countries, notably in the tropics.
A study conducted jointly by the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute and the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation with the purpose of evaluating the efficiency of the current federal procurement regime has shown that the certification of forest management is indeed a successful way of ensuring that purchased products are produced sustainably.
Please go to "Joint instruction on the procurement of wood products" for the exact wording of the regime and the explanatory notes.
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