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Welcome to the EC Forest Platform - an initiative that links peoples in the South and the European Community on aid and forest issues

Iola Leal Riesco
"Please send me information about your activities that you want to publicise to other Platform members. I hope you will take this opportunity to make Platform a 'live' debate on EC aid and forest issues."
Co-ordinator of the EC Forest Platform.


Belmond Tchoumba
"Thanks to the EC Forest Platform we will be able to monitor the impact of the EC aid policy on forests and forest people in Cameroon."
Centre pour l'Environnement et le Développement au Cameroun.

Welcome to the EC Forest Platform's newsletter: Platform News

Platform News

Issue 5: January 2005
P l a t f o r m Debates
1. Cameroon: New partners for the EC Forest Platform
2. EC Forest Platform defines its objectives
3. FLEGT: The coming months will be crucial…
4. Revision of Cotonou Agreement

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5. Review of the EU Development Policy Statement
6. Commission proposal raises fears over EC Development aid

N e w s f r o m around the World
7. Commission moves into offices built with illegal timber
8. NGOs demand EU support in fighting illegal logging in the Delta areas of South Nigeria
9. Forest Watch Ghana calls for serious enforcement of forest laws

R e s o u r c e s
10. Understanding EU intricacies: new briefings and publications
11. What is the EC Forest Platform ?

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Issue 4: October 2004
P l a t f o r m Debates
1. Mid-term Review of the Cotonou Agreement: civil society participation in Cameroon
2. NGO dialogue with Indonesia 's EC Delegation
3. EU Action Plan on illegal logging

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4. No funding for forests under new EC external policy instruments
5. Country Strategy Papers: round two
6. Economic Partnership Agreements: alleviating poverty – or just furthering EU interests ?

N e w s f r o m around the World
7. EU Regulation threatens ‘Legality Standards' for Indonesia
8. New ENA-FLEGT process: preparing to participate
9. Development co-operation with the Philippines : review of the Environmental Integration

R e s o u r c e s
10. Understanding EU intricacies: new briefings and publications
11. What is the EC Forest Platform ?

Available in English (HTML), French (HTML) and Spanish (HTML)

Issue 3: July 2004
P l a t f o r m Debates
1. EC Forest Platform in Cameroon and Indonesia
2. EC initiatives on illegal logging
a) EU Regulation
b) Licensing scheme
c) Definitions of legality

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3. New EC aid framework for Asia and Latin America
4. Financial perspectives and the future of the EC thematic budget lines
5. No Parliamentary scrutiny for EU ACP co-operation for another 10 years ?
6. Public consultation for EU Task Force Guidelines

N e w s f r o m around the World
7. DRC: forest peoples set to lose rights
8. EC buildings are 'Forest Crime Scenes'
9. NGOs oppose the building of new pulp mill in Indonesia
10. Mid-term review of the Indonesia Country Strategy Paper (CSP)

R e s o u r c e s
11. Understanding EU intricacies: new briefings and publications
12. What is the EC Forest Platform ?

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Issue 2: Summer 2003
P l a t f o r m Debates
1. European Commission secretive on programming guidelines
2. European Commission fight against illegal logging not far-reaching enough

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3. New programming framework for forest and environment budget lines

N e w s f r o m around the World
4. European Court of Auditors pleads for inclusion of natural resources management in India's Country Strategy Paper
5. Corruption in Lesotho backfires at European companies
6. EIB to support eucalyptus-friendly project?
7. European companies caught logging illegally
8. Swedish-supported forest destruction in Indonesia
9. Community forestry in Indonesia
10. EC's support to community forest management in Southeast Asia

R e s o u r c e s
11. Understanding EU intricacies: new briefings and publications
12. What is the EC Forest Platform ?

Available in English (PDF 165KB), French (HTML) and Spanish (HTML)

Issue 1: April 2003
P l a t f o r m Debates
1. Forests: the missing link
2. Gender absent from EC aid programming

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3. New EC aid framework for Asia and Latin America
4. EU Action Plan against illegal logging
5. Legal framework for EC Aid to 77 countries enters into force

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6. Company fined for trading in illegal wood
7. African NGOs raise concerns about the Congo Basin Initiative
8. European Commission funds two forest projects in Gabon
9. Small grants to Asian forest communities

R e s o u r c e s
10. Understanding EU intricacies: new briefings and publications
11. What is the EC Forest Platform?