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UK Government policy
The UK Government has developed a timber procurement policy which requires central government to actively seek to buy timber from legal and sustainable sources. Local government is encouraged to comply.
- Definition of timber
- What the terms 'timber' and 'wood derived products' refer to within the context of UK Government procurement policy
- Defining legality and sustainability
- Information on how legal and sustainable timber is identified.
- Policy update
- Information on the changes in policy after April 2009
- Contractual obligations
- An explanation of what should be in the General Conditions of Contract for legality of timber and in the Variant Specification for sustainability of timber.
- Timber procurement guidance
- The up-to-date version of the UK Government's Timber Procurement Advice Note
- Climate change and illegal logging
- The timber procurement policy as a key element.
