KYIV. Aug 15 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukraine’s State Agency of Forest Resources has ordered regional departments and forestry offices to publish full information on the planned forest cutting and the register of forest cutting tickets.
According to a posting on the agency’s website, the order is given in an agency’s letter dated August 8, 2016.
In addition, the agency ordered to put all timber up for sale at auctions.
“After auctions regional departments are obliged to post production programs of forest offices on their websites: the measures are required to cover the needs of Ukrainian timber processors,” acting head of the agency Khrystyna Yushkevych said.
She said that she is waiting for counter-moves from timber processors with volumes of timber bought and processed by them made public.
The European Business Association (EBA) welcomed these decisions of the agency.
“In the EBA appeals and at the meetings with senior officials we repeatedly paid attention to ongoing violations of the existing Regulations of sale of unprocessed timber, namely putting up incomplete amount of unprocessed timber at the auction trades,” the EBA said on its website.
