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The Constitutional Court put an end to indefinite inclusion in the Bad Faith Forest Users Register
November 6, 2020 ` 17:41
Legislators are supposed to introduce amendments to the Forest Code by January 1, 2021, under the ruling by the Constitutional Court. The Constitutional Court recognized art. 98.1 of the Forest Code (Register of Bad Faith Tenants of Forest...
Russia is implementing a tool of growing private forests on agricultural lands for the first time
November 5, 2020 ` 19:03
New Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1509 of September 21, 2020 “On features of using, safeguarding, protecting and reproducing forests located in agricultural lands” permits forest management activities, including timber harvesting, in agricultural lands;...
The Government of the Russian Federation established a Forest Sector Development Committee
November 3, 2020 ` 18:35
The government committee will consider issues of state forest supervision, fire supervision in forests, fighting illegal timber circulation, forest protection from pests and other unfavorable factors, developing a close-cycle economy in the forest sector and guaranteed provision of...
The Government of the Russian Federation is adopting measures to encourage wood processing
October 23, 2020 ` 19:15
The document was signed by Viktoria Abramchenko, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, following a meeting with Vladimir Putin. A total of 46 problems were included in the list, along with the same number of potential solutions classified into...
Vladimir Putin gave a directive to introduce a ban on exporting unprocessed or roughly processed timber products from Russian as of January 1, 2022
October 23, 2020 ` 19:07
September 29, 2020 Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting on issues of developing and decriminalizing the timber industry. The President gave a directive to introduce a system of accounting for timber and transactions therewith in the pilot...
Russian Timber Journal 09-2020: how a ban on exports of softwood and hardwood logs and precious hardwood will impact the Russian timber industry; the Government of the Russian Federation is adopting measures to encourage wood processing; interview with Alexey Ryzhikov, Saint Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange (SPIMEX) CEO; EU to launch anti-dumping procedure for birch plywood imports from Russia
October 23, 2020 ` 17:31
Russian Timber Journal 09-2020: Vladimir Putin gave a directive to introduce a ban on exporting unprocessed or roughly processed timber products from Russian as of January 1, 2022, how this decision will impact the Russian timber industry; the Government of...
EU to launch anti-dumping procedure for birch plywood imports from Russia
October 20, 2020 ` 16:54
Following a complaint brought by the Woodstock Consortium acting on behalf of the Union producers of birch plywood, who represent a majority of the total European Union (EU) production of the product, the EU has launched an anti-dumping...
Russian Timber Journal 08-2020: Ranking of Top 100 Russian timber industry companies in 2019: slowing down as global economy growth decelerates; interview with Management at Metadynea – Russia’s largest synthetic resins producer; the Russian wood-based panel sector is trying to recover from the recession of the coronavirus crisis
September 25, 2020 ` 18:27
Russian Timber Journal 08-2020: the total revenue of the Top-100 forestry companies in 2019 amounted to RUB 1.19 trillion, which in current prices is only 0.44% more than in 2018, and this is the minimum growth rate over...
Viktoria Abramchenko, Deputy Prime Minister, proposes to combine the powers of forestry and timber industry in one federal body
September 8, 2020 ` 11:31
Viktoria Abramchenko, Russian Deputy Prime Minister, sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin on July 27, 2020, to propose to combine the powers of forestry and timber industry in one authority. Ms. Abramchenko emphasizes the insufficiently coordinated...
Switzerland is working on a new timber trade regulation
September 4, 2020 ` 11:07
Since the Swiss obligation to declare wood and wood products, which has been in force since 2012, follows a completely different approach than the EU Timber Trade Regulation (EUTR) that came into force in 2013, a Swiss Wood...
The Government hopes to reduce wood waste by exporting wood pellets
September 1, 2020 ` 18:11
The Russian Government hopes to reduce the number of wood waste landfills in the country by encouraging exports of wood pellets and briquettes that can be used as biofuel. That was announced by the press office of the...
Information on the origin of goods to be reflected in customs declarations in a new way from January 1, 2021
August 18, 2020 ` 17:35
Members of the meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council in Minsk reached agreement on the enactment of the corresponding Decision of the Panel of the Eurasian Economic Commission on changing the Procedure for filling out goods declarations. Thus,...
