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Congo and the EU adopt tools to implement their agreement on illegal logging

The Republic of Congo and the European Union have adopted a five-year plan for the implementation of their Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) aimed at eliminating illegal logging.

date:  27/02/2018

This Agreement is part of the EU initiative on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT). The new five-year action plan for the implementation of VPA 2018-2022, as well as an Annual Work Plan for 2018, were adopted by Congo and the EU at the meeting of the Joint Implementation Committee (JIC) of the VPA, which met in Brazzaville on 5 December 2017.

Link: here

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