Area: Kmetijstvo
Competent authority: MOP
EZU URL: .nan
Initiative ID: 383
Initiative accepted and completed: '2014-08-26'
Initiative classified in EZU: .nan
Initiative forwarded in response: '2014-08-12'
Initiative published: '2014-08-12'
Initiative submitted: '2014-08-07'
Response from the competent authority: 'Response from the Ministry of Agriculture
  and the Environment: Regulation (EU) No 995/2010 of the European Parliament and
  of the Council of 20 October 2010 laying down the obligations of operators who place
  timber and timber products on the market (OJ L 295, 12.11.2010, p. 23; hereinafter:
  Regulation (EU) No 995/2010) aims to prevent illegal logging and related trade.
  Regulation 995/2010/EU provides that the placing on the EU internal market of illegally
  harvested timber or timber products is prohibited. A legal logging operation is
  one that complies with the regulations in force in the country where the logging
  operation took place.According to the Forest Act, a legal logging operation in Slovenia
  is one that has been carried out on the basis of a decision on logging issued by
  the Forest Institute of Slovenia (Zavod za gozdove Slovenije). The harvesting decision
  can only partially ensure the traceability of forest timber products, as in larger
  timber storage areas (e.g. piles of 100 or 1000 m3), it is practically impossible
  to determine on the basis of which decision the exact forest timber products were
  harvested. On the other hand, the Court of Auditors of the Republic of Slovenia
  stated in its Audit Report on Forest Management (2009 audit) that measurements on
  permanent sample plots showed that there is much more unauthorised logging than
  the Slovenian Forest Service manages to record. In 2009, the Slovenian Forest Service
  recorded 74,041 m3 of unauthorised logging in the logging records, which is 2.2
  % of the total logging in the Republic of Slovenia.Therefore, in order to ensure
  proper tracking of forest timber products, reduce illegal logging and effectively
  implement controls, a "waybill" was introduced to track the transport of forest
  timber products from the forest to the final buyer. In order to reduce the administrative
  burden, the waybill is designed in such a way that it can also be used as a delivery
  note. Thus, one document ensures the traceability of forestry timber products and
  also conducts business between sellers and buyers.Your suggestion or opinion that
  only the felling decision should be used for the implementation of Regulation 995/2010/EU
  is already partly introduced in the Forest Act, since forest owners who transport
  forest wood from their forests for their own needs up to a volume of 6 m3 can transport
  these wood products without a waybill, and the legality of the felling and the subsequent
  transport is proven by the original felling decision issued by the Slovenian Forest
  Service. In order to provide comprehensive information on timber turnover (sales,
  own use) and to prevent "illegal work", forest owners are required to keep a record
  sheet with information on timber consumption and turnover.In order to speed up the
  recovery from the effects of this year''s ice storm, the deadline of 30 June 2008
  is 30 June 2008. The traceability of forest timber products, except for forest timber
  products from forests owned by the Republic of Slovenia, can be ensured by means
  of a document on the use and trade in forest timber products, which must be kept
  by the forest owner or the owner of other land on which forest tree species grew,
  if the forest timber products were obtained from these species, instead of a waybill,
  for the duration of the post-fall period. It follows from the above that the introduction
  of a document on the use and trade of forest wood is only a temporary measure, with
  the aim of restoring as quickly as possible the forests damaged in this year''s
  ice storm.As regards your proposal to start checking the import of illegally harvested
  timber into the EU and the illegal trade in timber, we would like to inform you
  that this control is already being carried out. On the basis of legal powers, this
  control is carried out in Slovenia by the Customs Administration of the Republic
  of Slovenia (now the Financial Administration of the Republic of Slovenia). 16 economic
  operators have been selected for control in accordance with Regulation 995/2010/EU
  on the basis of criteria (such as different countries of origin of timber products
  released for free circulation in Slovenia or different countries of export of timber
  products, different types of timber, etc.). So far, nine operators have been controlled.
  16 economic operators have been controlled.'
Text file: 383.txt
Title: .nan
URL: https://www.stopbirokraciji.gov.si/pobuda/?st=383
