Austria Leads Timber Industry Rejection of EU Forest Strategy
- EU timber countries call for national oversight of woodlands
- EC seeking to streamline forestry management across EU
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Europe’s biggest timber nations lined up at an Austrian conference on Tuesday to reject a climate strategy proposed in Brussels to sustainably regulate how woodlands are managed.
Forestry ministers from Germany, France, Finland, Slovakia and Sweden, as well as industry representatives declared Tuesday after meeting in Vienna that the European Commission should steer clear of any rules that restrict national control over the continent’s 640 billion-euro ($742 billion) timber business.