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Malaysia to use certification to crack down on illegal logging mongabay.com March 27, 2007
The ITTO says the decision will boost sales of Malaysian secondary processed wood products to markets where timber accountability is important, like Europe and increasingly, the United States. Malaysian Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities, Datuk Peter Chin, said that certification will "ensure that Malaysia was not accidentally purchasing smuggled or illegally-logged timber." He added that under the Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA), currently being negotiated between the European Union (EU) and Malaysia, "European countries should make sure that they purchased timber and timber-based products from countries that practiced sustainable forest management." Further, he said, European countries should be willing to pay more for certified timber since production costs would be higher for manufacturers.
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