Legal status Annual Working Plan AWP Work Plan EQUIPMENT PERMIT AND ROUND WOODSLOGS HAVE BEEN TIMBER TRANSPORTATION
3 The second category aims to provide recommendations on the aforementioned issues and on additional
elements of the TLAS which are being should be further developed, in particular on independent monitoring and licensing.
Recommendations should take into account the fact that the guidelinesprotocols concerning the implementation of the SVLK are still being developed. Wherever possible, the recommendations
should relate to these protocols and how they could be designed in a way that takes into account the clarifications add-ons options raised by the experts.
Recommendations should take into account the guidance provided in the FLEGT briefing notes and should, where relevant, take into account solutions applied in other VPA countries.
Recommendations should take into account the forthcoming work on the formulation of the VPA annexes. Wherever appropriate, the recommendations should be formulated in a way that
provides basis for the preparation of these VPA annexes concerning the TLAS description.
3. RULES FOR THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF FORESTS: The main principle is that same government regulations
apply to all state-owned forests on production forest zone forest concessions and community forests, whereas there is a specific set of legal requirements for conversion forests. The rules for the management
of privately-owned forests are sparse, though the regulatory system does encompass laws relating to the movement of timber from privately-owned lands and how these are to be controlled ref. Section 5:
Control of the supply chain. Table 1 summarizes the application of the primary rules by use-rights types stipulated in the SVLK i.e. a
forest concessions within production forest zones on state-owned lands IUPHHK-HAHPH, IUPHHK- HTIHPHTI, IUPHHK RE, b community plantation forests and community forests within production forest
zones on state-owned lands IUPHHK-HTR, IUPHHK-HKM, c timber utilization rights within non-forest
zones on state-owned lands conversion forests and d privately-owned forests. Table 1
Applicability of key rules
No. Indicator and Verifier Inquiry
License on
Permanet state forest
Community forest
Private forest
Conversion forest