In line with the trend of major timber market globally, the government of Japan applies Goho-wood or green Konjuho which requires that timber imported into the country comes from legal sourses. The government of the United States of America amanded the Lacey Act, aimed at avoiding import of illegal timber into the country. The European Union issued timber regulation No. 995/2010 obliging operator to possess irrefutable proofs that timber product that they trade don't come from illegal sources and prohibiting illegal timber. Certificate of legal wood will meet this strong demand for legal timber.
Timber Legality Verification System (or SVLK in Indonesian) is an Indonesian effort to assure the legality of its timber. SVLK stipulates that the forestry business unit must get certified for sustainable forest management or timber legality certificate. Further, all timber-related industrial units, either primary industry (timber processing industry), and secondary industry (industry that raw materials derived from primary industry products), have to obtain a legality certificate. Sustainable forest management or legality assessment or audit is conducted independently assessor who is accredited by the nasional accreditation agency (or KAN in Indonesian), and are monitored by NGOs or civil society. Certificate of legal wood has also been conducted in natural forest and plantation forest covering.
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