70th session of the UNECE Timber

In Geneva (Switzerland) from 15 to 19 October 2012 were events of the 70th session of the UNECE Timber Committee.

Activities included: October 15 - Seminar "Green living wood", October 16-19 - 70th session of the Committee, October 19 - Meeting of the Bureau of the European Forestry Commission. Deputy Director for Science VNIILM Filipchuk AN, who is chairman of the EFC bureau, a delegation of the Federal Forestry Agency took part in these events.

The meeting discussed the documents of the forest policy of the European region in the long term, the current issues of the Timber Committee, Review of Forest Products in 2011, etc.

Much attention was paid to the urgent problems of forest products markets, the stability of forest products and their contribution to the green economy, the development of forest policy. The plenary session of the Timber Committee on the status and prospects of the market for timber products, Deputy Head of the Federal Forestry Agency AV Panfilov, presented the results of a joint project with the FAO "The outlook for the forest sector of the Russian Federation until 2030."

This article has been translated by machine translation.