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International Symposium on Legality Verified Wood 2010
Activities in Japan to tackle illegal logging issues
December 10(Fri.)-11(Sat.), 2010
Tokyo Fashion Town Hall 500
Japan Federation of Wood Industry Associations/
Japan Lumber Inspection & Research Association

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Tentative Agenda

1.Background and purpose

The Japanese Government included wood and wood products verified as being legally and sustainably produced (hereinafter referred to as Gohowood) in its Law on Promoting Green Purchasing in 2006. Since then the wood industries in Japan have endeavored to provide Gohowood in accordance with the "Guideline for verifying the legality and sustainability of wood and wood products," announced by the Forestry Agency. Gohowood is now recognized in the Japanese market as a base index for green procurement of construction companies, and local and national government.

In Indonesia, wood traceability system developing program under the action plan for the cooperation in combating illegal logging and the trade in illegally logged timber and wood products between the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan and the Ministry of Forestry of Indonesia started in 2004 brings fruitful outputs. In other producer countries or areas, some types of legality secure traceability systems installed to wood and wood products markets.

Those activities have introduced a credible and distributable system for verifying Goho (=legal) wood and wood products in international symposiums¹ .

Activities to combat illegal logging are spreading not only in timber producing countries, but also consuming countries including the EU and the US. It is important to share Japan's experiences including those concerning Gohowood.

In this context, the International Symposium on Legally Verified Wood 2010 -Activities in Japan to tackle illegal logging issues- will be held to introduce activities in Japan and to clarify the meaning of Gohowood in the context of global activities.

¹International Seminar in Tokyo for Tackling Illegal Logging,2007- Response of the world to the Procurement Policies of Japan - 26(Mon) - 27(Tue) February, 2007 (http://www.goho-wood.jp/world/event/event1-1.html)
International seminar for tackling illegal logging, 2007 II in Yokohama "A credible and distributable system for verifying Goho(=legal) wood and wood products" December 3 & 4, 2007 (http://www.goho-wood.jp/world/event/event5-report.html)
The Roundtable Meeting on Gohowood targeting the G8 Summit was held on 27 June, in Tokyo( http://www.goho-wood.jp/world/event/conference1.html)

2.Outline of the Symposium

(1)Title:	International Symposium on Legality Verified Wood 2010 -Activities in Japan to tackle illegal logging issues-
(2)Date:	December 10(Fri.)-11(Sat.), 2010
(3)Venue:	Tokyo Fashion Town Hall 500 (Neighborhood of Tokyo Big Sight, Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo)
(4)Sponsors:	Japan Federation of Wood Industry Associations Japan Lumber Inspection & Research Association

(5)Program:

Opening Session:
Part One:	Development and Operation of Wood Traceability System
Part Two:	Activities in Japan to Tackle Illegal Logging Issues Gohowood Promotion Project and Recent Development in the Japanese Market (The Forestry Agency) (Timber Industry Associations, Housing Industry, Consumer Grope, Environmental NGO etc.)
Part Three:	Panel Discussion Japan's Legality Verification Efforts and International Measures to Combat Illegal Logging: Developments and Future Prospects Panelists: Invited guests from Indonesia, Malaysia , China, the EU and the US

(6)Joint Event

A poster presentation will be held in the corner of the same meeting room for "All about Imported Gohowood -Summary of the verification of Gohowood of imported timber products "

(7)Expected Participants (two hundred)

Related persons from the Administration Organization/ Timber Industries/ Housing Industries/ Consumer Organizations/ Environmental NGO/ Academic Organizations/ Diplomatic Organizations in Tokyo/

(8)Language

Japanese/ English simultaneous translation

(9)Contact

Japan Federation of Wood Industry Associations
Japan Lumber Inspection & Research Association
6F, Nagatacho Building, 2-4-3 Nagatacho, Chiyodaku, Tokyo, 100-0014, Japan
TEL  +81-3-3580-3215 FAX +81-3-3580-3226
E-mail: 2010sympo@goho-wood.jp  T. Fujiwara, Ryo Sasaki, M. Kato

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