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December 2007
News and issues from December 2007
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MTCC reverts to the 2002 Criteria & Indicators: Selangor & Terengganu lose certified status December 2007 |
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MTCC has announced that the Certificate for Forest Management issued to the Selangor FMU (FMC 02) and the Terengganu FMU (FMC 03) against the requirements of the 2001 Malaysian Criteria & Indicators (MC&I 2001) have both expired on 13 December 2007 and will not be renewed, in line with MTCC’s decision to switch to full implementation of the 2002 standards (MC&I 2002). Both the Selangor and Terengganu FMUs are in the process of meeting the requirements of the new standard, while Pahang and Negeri Sembilan FMUs have been recertified against the new standards (MC&I 2002). Until the 2 states fulfil the requirements of MTCC's 2002 standards, all logs sourced from the Permanent Reserved Forests (PRFs) in the Selangor and Terengganu FMUs beginning 1 January 2008 (i.e. all logs accompanied by Removal Passes issued dated 1 January 2008 and onwards) will not be recognised as certified material under the MTCC timber certification scheme.
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Ghana signs EPA-lite with the EU 13 December 2007 |
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On 13 December 2007, Ghana signed the interim Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), or EPA-lite, with the European Union. The pressure to sign the agreement came from the Ghana horticultural sector, dominated by cocoa producers. The agreement would provisionally allow 80% of some European goods into the Ghanaian market duty-free and quota-free while Ghana will continue to have 100% access to the EU market, eliminating tariffs on all of the country’s exports with the exception of sugar and rice. Ghana is now the second country after the Ivory Coast to have signed the interim EPA agreement.
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