Have your say on NZ's legal harvest assurance systemFriday 2 Aug 2024
Legal harvest assurance systems are aimed at combating trade of illegally logged timber. It is estimated that illegal logging accounts for up to 30% of global timber trade and contributes to more than 50% of tropical deforestation in Central Africa, the Amazon Basin, and South-East Asia. New Zealand’s statutory legal harvest assurance system will cover people harvesting forests, people buying logs, primary or first-stage processors, and importers and exporters of timber products. It follows the enactment of the Forests (Legal Harvest Assurance) Amendment Act 2023 in May 2023, which will introduce a legal harvest assurance system into law through the Forests Act 1949. In preparation for formal consultation, MPI is using issues papers to seek feedback on the operational details required to implement the system. MPI wants to gather a broad base of views on ideas and assumptions that have been made in designing the details of how a legal harvest assurance system will work in practice. The information gathered will be used to inform options for consultation on regulations to implement the system. Feedback on New Zealand’s Legal Harvest Assurance System, Issues paper two: implementing the legal harvest assurance framework must be received by MPI no later than 5:00pm on 28 August 2024. The second issues paper is available here: Legal harvest assurance system for timber | NZ Government (mpi.govt.nz) More information is available on the MPI website. Source: The Ministry for Primary Industries  | ||
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