One third of state-managed forestry enterprises (27%) are left without connection to the wood electronic management system (WEM), in particular, this concerns forest management enterprises subordinated to the Education Ministry, Defense Ministry, as well as municipal forests and forests of regional automobile agencies, Director General of the state-owned enterprise (SOE) Ukrainian Forestry Innovation and Analytical Centre Viktor Melnychenko has said.
“In 2010, we, together with our partners, Latschbacher, started developing a wood electronic management system that allows us to trace the process of logging and selling wood, and it has been introduced in all enterprises of the State Forestry Agency of Ukraine since 2012. In general, the system covers 73% of state-owned forestry enterprises,” he said at a press conference at the Kyiv-based Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
At the same time, Melnychenko said that the government resolution on the creation of a pilot project for the implementation of the electronic logging system for the second year remains without consideration, whereas its adoption could favor the connection of all state-owned forestry enterprises to the system.
According to Melnychenko, the system introduced in 2012 has been supplemented with new modules and applications that allow the public and law enforcement agencies to receive information on wood accounting.
“After logging we mark the wood with a special plastic tag with a barcode, then move it and sell it. A year ago we introduced the “Police” application created to track and verify the movement of the wood along public roads. Today we present the “Certificate” application,” the representative of the developer of the WEM system – the Austrian company Latschbacher GmbH, Volodymyr Molochko, said at the press conference.
According to him, when issuing a certificate of origin for wood, the system automatically checks the availability of documents for legally acquired wood. The certificate itself, allowing tracing the entire supply chain, is transferred by the WEM system to the customs system of Ukraine in electronic and encrypted form.
